Wheat Breeding. Value of Selecting Seed
Selection is sometimes understood to mean the use of graded seed or plump well-developed instead of pinched grain, but the Plant Breeder of the Department of Agriculture (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farming & the land, 1916
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Wheat Handling. Agreement Arrived At. Melbourne
After a conference to-day between the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Hageltborne), representatives of the shipping agents, and officials of the Wharf Labourers Union, a…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Price of Wheat. 53 12 for Next Fortnight
The price of wheat for the ensuing fortnight has been fixed at 5s 3 12d on an f.o.b. (Sydney) basis. Mr. E. Harris, secretary of the State Wheal…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat in the County. Quantities Stacked and Despatched
Following is the number of bags of wheat despatched from all stations on railway lines in New South Wales for the week ended December 25: -- DESPATCHED…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Country Fires. Hay and Wheat Destroyed. Berrigan
As a result of one of the bearings of a harvester running hot and igniting some stubble, just as it was being pulled up to be emptied, a fire occurred in a large wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Australian Wool Increased Exports to U.s.a
The following information has been given us by Mr. Joseph I. Britain, the American Consul-General at Sydney:-- "During the calendar year ending…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Train Smash at Clyde. Loaded Wheat Trucks Break Away
A wheat train of twenty trucks, while being shunted at the Clyde (N.S.W.) railway station on Saturday broke away and crashed into a dead-end. The buffer…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Pool Administrative Lapses a Minister's Apology and Promise
The N.S.W. Minister for Lands, Mr. Ashford, in the absence of the Minuter for Agriculture in the country, on Thursday referred to the'complaints that had…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Share Farming. with State As Partner. Minister for Lands' Scheme
[?] Government share farming [?] Mining for Lands has planned for [?] resumed Forced [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Girl Overboard. Accident in Farm Cove. Good Rescue by Deckhands
when Jessie sherwood 11, who live in [?] Forest Lodge fell overboard from the larry steamer kai-kai in Farm Cove kast night, two deckhands, Arthur Ernest Reid of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trading Notes the War Value of Old Iron on the Farm
The amount of wealth lying idle and rusting away in the heaps of "old iron" that are dotted all over the country, would feed thousands of hungry people;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Dairy Produce
The Sussex-Street dairy produce market opened up this week with a steady demand. Butter fell 14/ per [?] the price is now quoted wholesale at 136/4 per [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farm Table Some Summer Salads Tried Recipes and a Few Novelties
Country people with gardens have a great advantage over city folk, who have to buy their vegetables in the market or from a hawker and can have no…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers' War Relief Fund
The acre-of-wheat donations to the Farmers and Settlers' Association War Relief Fund for the week ended Wednesday last represented three acres of trops,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Swine Breeding Raise Your Own Stock South Australian Farmer's Advice
In a paper on "Pig-raising," read before the Agriculture Bureau Conference in South Australia, Mr. R.A. keddie of Woodside, submitted that the pig was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Liens on Crops. What Li[?] Should Do
In connection with the Government scheme for marketing the wheat crop the N.S.W. Wheat Office is in receipt of. numerous inquiries from person! and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Season Reports. State of the Crops in New South Wales Riverina Harvest
A message from [?] says: The stripping is now general throughout the district, and the results are better than was [?] a little while ago. There were very grave doubts regarding the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →State Aid to Farmers. America Urged to copy Australia
The recent International Irrigation Congress, held in California (writer the San Francisco correspondent of one of the Sydney papers), actually resolved Itself…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"The Referee" Stock Breeders' Gazette :Stud : Farm H. M. Somer Reviews the Failure of the Vermont-merino Crossing
JUDGING from the comments which appear in the pastoral Press of America, some interest is kept alive in certain of the United States in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Accident to Farmer. Gulgong
Mr. Burrows, a farmer, residing at Craboon, had his left arm taken off below the elbow by a chaffcutter this morning…
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