Death of Wheat Breeder
On New Year's Eve one of the best known arid most successful farmers in the Walla Walla district, Mr. J. H. Schmidt, passed away in Albury from heart failure, after being under…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farming & the land, 1917
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Germany's Diet. Butter and Sugar Missing
LONDON, Tuesday.--A neutral who had been living in Germany until December narrates that he lost 15lb. in weight while there. For months he saw no butter. While in Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Financial. the War, Profits Tax. a Pastoral View
"Country Man" writes:- Sir,—To provide [?] golden bullet [?] necessary for the successful con[?] of the war, those in Federal [?]rity strongly [?] the public to economise and to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Agricultural and Pastoral State of the Country. Ardlethan
Wheat is being brought into the station yard in ever-increasing amounts. The average yield for crips in the Ardlethan district is from seven to eight bags per acre…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Profitable Wool Clip. Bathurst
The wood [?] promises to be out of the [?] on record. This is due to [?] average weight of [?] merinos and crossbreds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Season's Wheat. Grades and Values
The low standard of the New South Wales wheat crop this year is surrounding the question of a working basis of values with many difficulties. The shipping agents and millers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial Sussex-street Trade. To-day's Business. Wheat Certificates
The wheatgrowers are [?] Government [?] for [?] to agents in the [?]to which great [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Lumpers. Non-unionists and Strikers General Trouble Expected. [?]
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Lumpers' Claims Strike in the Riverina Wagga
There is likely to be serious trouble amongst wheat lumpers throughput the State over the dispute with the wheat agents at Old Junee, where a strike has occurred. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Trucks Held Up 1300 Under Load a Railway Problem
The Railway Department stated to-day that on Monday 659 trucks were under load with wheat in the metropolitan district, on Tuesday 1277, and this morning approximately 1300…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Produce. Dairy
Supplies of new-laid eggs appear to be coming to hand fairly freely. The fallingoff that was anticipated by agents owing to the heat wave does not seem to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Pitt Town Farm
No doubt there are many women besides myself who are very much disappointed over the proposed closing of the Pitt Town Farm. It appeared at first that all vacancies would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →0N the Land. Farm and Station. the Fruit Industry
As we have previously pointed out, in any consideration of the present position of the fruit industry, it must be remembered that the growers are mainly responsible because…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Tin of Phosphorus. Concealed in a Crop. Young
"Whilst an employee named Davis was harvesting in a paddock at Avoca, Monteagle, yesterday, a wheel ran over a tin containing phosphorus, concealed in the crop. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Warwick Farm
The next meeting at Warwick Farm course will take place on Saturday, February 3, when six events will be competed for, which will be subsidised to the extent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Season and Crops
ALBURY.--As harvesting progresses in the district reports are coming to hand of the reduction in yields in places caused through the prolific growth of saffron thistles. In the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Soil a Great Co-operation. Farmers of All Australia
The wheat farmers of the State have for many years been dallying with the question of co-operation. Spasmodic "got-together" movements have been launched, but ineffectually,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crops Damaged. By Rain, Hail, and Rust
According to the reports by meteorological observers throughout New South Wales, abundant rains, much above the average, were again experienced during December over all the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Against Daylight Saving. Miners and Farmers Object
Coal miners on the Northern coalfields, resent the Daylight Saving Act, but left the matter in the hands of the Colliery Employees' Federation…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Prices
The following are the quotations new ruling for wheat and flour:- Wheat for flour, per bushel: For local consumption, for Papua, Norfolk Island, Lord…
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