For Britain's Granaries Big Wheat Purchase £10,000,000 From Rumania LONDON, Saturday Morning
It is reported that Great Britain has purchased ten million pounds' worth of Rumanian wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1916
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Give the Farmer a Chance
Inseparably associated with the problem of finding the land for settlement, and placing the settler in a position that will enable him to make use of it, is that of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wool, Wheat, and Flour
The following quantities of wool, wheat, and flour were manifested to arrive at Darling Harbor and sub-stations to-day:—Wool, [?] bales: flour, 270 tons: and wheat, [?] tons…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Drowned
ORANGE, Friday.--Two hundred sheep the property of Mr. Palmer. Forbes, were overtaken by flood waters whilst grazing in low- lying country near Farnham, and were drowned…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Scheme. Farmers Selling Outside
The announcement in "The Daily Telegraph" last week that farmers in the Berrigan district were selling to unauthorised agents outside the wheat scheme is one of the very few instances…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Experiments
HOLBROOK.—Mr. H. C. Stenning agricultural inspector, has supplied the following information regarding the wheat experiment plots conducted by the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmers' Gifts of Wheat Temora
A happy scheme has been decided on by the joint committee of the Temora District Hospital and Allies' Day Fund, whereby the local farmers are being asked to give bags of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. Interstate Butter Markets
Prescott, Ltd., write:— Butter.—The local demand has livened up this week, probably as a result of lower re[?] prices, and supplies from the North Coast have fallen back, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Soil. Marquis Wheat. Results of Farmers' Trials
A good deal of interest attaches to the trials of Marquis wheat--the Canadian Champion variety--this season. On the Government experiment plots, the results in most instances…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →London Wool Market
The Co-operative Wool and Produce Co., Ltd., report the receipt of the following cable from London:—"Crossbreds 5 to 7½ per cent, up compared close December."…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Roumanian Wheat. Purchased by Britain
Great Britain has purchased £10,000,000 worth of Roumanian wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Butter Cheaper in England Melbourne
Australians are stated to be paying more for their butter than the price at which Australian butter is being sold to residents of England, in spite of the efforts of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial. Sussex-street Trade. To-day's Business. Good News for Farmer. London Wheat Buoyant
[?] W. statutory price of [?] wheat [?] 5s 3d per bushel, f.o.b., Sydney. [?] hand the London market has [?] per quarter (eight bushels). for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Export. Prohibited by Norway. Christiania, Jan. 23
The export of butter has been prohibited…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Homebush Fat Stock Sales. Cattle Scarce and Dear
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Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Wheat Brings 70s a Quarter Melbourne
Mr. Hagelthorn, Minister for Agriculture, announced to-day that a cargo of Australian wheat, consisting of from 5000 to 7000 tons had been sold at 70s a quarter c.i.f. for May…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Soldiers' Farms. Progress at French's Forest
There was a gratifying response on Saturday to Dr. Arthur's appeal for volunteers to help in clearing the land at French's Forest for soldiers' farms. Since the work began on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Fruit-growing
At the recent Gosford Show Mr. Fleming, M.L.A., said he would like to know what was wrong with the fruit industry of the State, and he alse thought it was time some action…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wheat Crop. Fine Yields at Dunedoo
DUNEDOO.—The wheat harvest has been completed, and in every case farmers have garnered more wheat than they anticipated. Many thousands of bags of wheat are now…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →West Australian Crops. Wheat Rust at Goraidton
Most of the new season's wheat around Geraldton (W.A.) is stricken so badly by red rust that the Government agents cannot accept it as up to f.a.o. standard. [?] Pool the grain. A sum will be deducted from the advances to farmers, equal to the amount that the wheat is below…
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