Living Wage. Farmers Should Have 21/- a Day
Thinking of our present trouble over the wheat business, how's this from on American paper, dated November 26, 1916:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1917
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On the Land. Farm and Station. Wild Dog Pest
The Government may be depended upon to show a sympathetic attitude towards the request of lessees in the north-west for assistance against the wild dog pest. This question…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Produce. Dairy. Case Eggs Cheaper. the Bacon Shortage
Case eggs were cheaper in Sussex-street yesterday Northern Rivers generally were quoted at /8[?]. Some houses held out for /9, maintaining that if the river eggs were…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dairying
GRAFTON.—Mr. J. A. Long's dairy herd was auctioned last week, it contained quite a number of prize, show stock, and cows fotched from £11 to £25, one realising £46…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Model Farm Dwellings
Some time ago the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales invited competitive designs for dwellings suitable for returned soldiers, small farmers, farm workers,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Prices
The reason why New South Wales, Victorian, and, Queensland butters--salted and unsalted--have a slightly easier tone in Tooley-street this week is because of the natural law of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Sheep Show
At the last meeting of the council of the Royal Agilcultural Society, a letter was read from the president of the Sheepbreeders' Association, stating that a conversation had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Soil. Farmers' Experiments. Wheat Plot Results
The following further results of the harvesting of farmers' experiment wheat plots under the supervision of the Department of Agriculture bear traces of the influences of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Notes. Trouble Among Cattle
Stock Inspector Cotton has had a busy time lately dealing with stomach troubles in cattle, chiefly amongst dairy herds, which have been reported from various parts of the Maitland…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Patriotic Wheat Growing
WEST WYALONG.--Twenty-five acres of crop grown by Mr. P. H. Thomas, Mildel, returned 115 bags of wheat; and 50 acres on Mr. John Cattle's farm yielded 333 hags. The harvester…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Guarantee
WAGGA.--Speaking from the presidential chair at a meeting of the Murrumbidgee P. and A. Association, Mr. H. E. Mitchellmore referred to the question of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Lifting the Wheat
One of the burning questions of the day is the wheat crop--past, present, and to come. Mr. Harris, the officer from the Agricultural Department in charge of the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →On the Land. Farm and Station. the Wheat Standard
The State Wheat Office still intends, apparently, to adhere to the obsolete and unsatisfactory f.a.q. standard system in handling the wheat this season. Although a splendid…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat Lumpers Strike Over
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agricultural and Pastoral State of the Country
ALBURY. As harvesting progresses in the district reports are coming to hand of the reduction in yield in places caused through the prolifie…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sugar and Butter. London, Jan. 22
The Government is introducing regulations lowering the prices of sugar and butter, and restricting meals in restaurants to two dishes, with hors d'oeuvre and dessert…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Six Months' Wool Shipments
The following official return shows the number of bales of wool exported overseas from the State of New South Wales for the six months, July to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Garnering Australia's Wheat for the Allies
OWING to the lateness of the season and the serious storms experienced during harvesting operations, which damaged the wheat crops considerably, the tusk of estimating the probable production with any degree of precision has been rendered exceedingly difficult. Only for the destruction wrought by hail…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Price of Wheat London, Tuesday Night
The Council of the Chambers of Agriculture have decided to urge that a minimum price, be fixed, for wheat and oats for at least four years, with four years notice of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cyclone Wrecks Wheat Stack. Young, Sednesday
A Revoler's M'Rald damage a wheat slice of 21,000 bags lossing timber, Iron and 1000 bags of wheat to all corners of the railway yard, and causing about £200 damage. Twenty…
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