"Daylight Robbery." "Preventing Production." Dairymen and the New Time
SINGLETON, Wednesday.--The daylight saving scheme was strongly condemned at the annual meeting of the local branch of the Primary Producers' Union…
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Dairying Returns
BEGA.--Suppliers to the Bega Co-operative Butter Factory made big cheques for December, averaging 30s to £2 and oven more per cow. The factory pay was far the best since…
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The number listed was 1673 head, from 102 consignors. The quality was fairly good, but mainly useful trade sorts. The market was on the same line as sheep, prices…
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TAMWORTH.—Harvesting is practically completed in this district, and it has resulted in from a two to three bag crop of very poor wheat. Of course, many farmers…
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LONDON, Thursday.--The Australian Pastoral Company has declared a dividend for the year of per cent…
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At the monthly mooting of the Armidale Pastures Protection Board, the unsatisfactory arrangements regarding tho dipping of sheep were discussed…
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All the catalogues in the first series of appraisements in Sydney have now been appraised, and the appraisers have gone to Brisbane, and we believe no further N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd
The appraisement of wool this week has been transferred to the Brisbane market, where some 50,000 bales are to be listed. In view of the time required to deal with…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →VETERINARY. Sheep Bot
Upper Murray writes: I have some Lincoln rams, four years old. They have been with merino ewes for a month, and have not yet started to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Fly Exterminator
Mr. R. J. Higgins of Inverell, hasinvented a sheep fly exterminator which is said to have given excellent results under test. One has now been made and presented to…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wheat Traffic
The following particulars show the wheat traffic dealt with by rail in the metropolitan district last week:—January 8.—Trucks on hand 6 a.m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flocks and Herds—breeding and Feeding. Sheep and Wool Another Blow—Fly Trap Success with Sheep on the Manning
Messrs. J. R. and J. A. Ross, of [?] near Wingham (N.S.W.), have purchased two stud Romney-Marsh rams,bred by Mr. Doyle, of Candington Hall,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Report. Brisbane Wool Sales
Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., received the following wire from their Brisbane office:—Grieve Bros., Dalveen, greasy fleece…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Algerian Wool
Northern Africa, inhabited by nomad tribes possessing large flocks of sheep, has always been a wool-producing country (says the " Textilie Mercury"). In the Middle Ages…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Branding Wheat Bags
"Closer Settlement Settler" asks:—(1) Can the Government compel farmers to brand their wheat bags with a registered brand? (2) If not, would the Government agents take…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Branding Wheat-bags. The Position of Share-farmers
Considerable misconception exists in the minds of many share-farmers concerning their position in regard to the branding of their wheat-bags this year, Uncle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wheat Question
Mr. K N Carruthers, a director of Messrs. Lindley, Walker and Co., Ltd. Government wheat shippers, who has just returned to Sydney after a…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Wheat Pool
According to returns compiled by the Australian Wheat Board the quantity of wheat received on account of the pool up to January 8, totalled 53,794,000 'bags,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Pastoral Company. London, Jan. 18
The Australian Pastoral Ccmpany's dividend for the year is 6 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Soil. Farmers' Wheat Plots. Weather Effects on Yields
Further results of the harvesting of farmers' experiment wheat plots, under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture, in the Central West and Riverina, indicate the markedly…
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