Wheat Advances Board's Debt Reduced Melbourne
According to the official report issued today, the net indebtedness of the Australian Wheat Board to the banks and the Imperial Government on January 22 for advances for…
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Tasmanian Wool Appraisers Commence Work Hobart
Wool appraisers will commence work in Hobart next week, and will afterwards proceed to Launceston. The total number of bales catalogued for tho first appraisement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Price of Beef Due to the High Price of Cattle What Figures Show
At a meeting of Council in the course of the week, a suburban alderman said that the reason why meat is high-priced is that beef is dear and scarce. This is the fact. Last Monday's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blackberries Picking the Crop in Illawarra
The annual, blackberry harvest has begun in the Illawarra district, and groups of pickers, old and young, equipped with billycans, buckets, kerosene tins, etc., may be seen early and late…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Onion Crop No Interference if Crop Sufficient MELBOURNE
It has been stated that the Federal Government would take charge of the onion crop of the Commonwealth in the same way as it has taken charge of other commodities…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fruit Growing Need for Cooperation Dairymen's Lead
In deciding that soldiers' farms In N.S. Wales shall be run on co-operative lines, the State Government is giving the cue to small farmers and orchardists to go and do likewise. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Suspicious Fires in Wheat Crops
A suspicious are occurred in the [?] at Bland, in the West [?] while neighbors [?] two [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Produce. Australian Butter Markets
Local and interstate business in butter has been normal during the week, but export sales have been somewhat disorganised by the lower prices ruling in London. In addition to this,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Australian Produce. London Notes. Butter
LONDON, December 14.--Supplies of butter from all sources are still far below the requirements of the market, consequently there is to reactivation of prices. During the past…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Cornered at Last
It has often been said that a corner in the wool trade would be impossible, and that remark is quite true to-day so far as it applies to any one firm, writes our Bradford…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Oversea Market Cables. Wheat. Chicago, Jan. 26
Chicago fixtures are quoted thus:—May opened 185 cents, closed 180[?] cents; July opened 154 cents, closed 151½ cents. LONDON, Jan. 27…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →ENGLISn Wool Trade. London Sales Helo Again. London, Dec. 14
Since writing last week, Mr. Norman Rae's assurance that London sales would be held has specdily materialised. Last week-end the London brokers stated that the final…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fight to a Finish. Britain's Determination. Lord Derby and the Farm Hands. [?] Afternoon
Lord Derby [?] speaking at the annual meeting [?] working Men's [?] "We shall [?] We…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Science and the Settler
When the attraction towards, the large contres of population is so great it is satisfactory to reflect that science is coming to the aid of the man…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer and Widow Charge of Conspiracy HOW £300 Was Spent Three Persons Committed
Farmer's widow would like to meet farmer, middle age, view to matrimony. Apply L.V., Newcastle P.O. This advertisement appeared in a Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fires in a Crop. Suspicious Candles
WEST WYALONG, Saturday.--On Thursday afternoon a fire started in the crop of a share farmer on Bland, 23 milese from Wyalong. Several neighbors galloped to the scene and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Soil. Wagga to Wyalong. Where Crops Are Good
In a trip through from Wagga to Wyalong (writes our Wagga correspondent) some of the very host of wheat crops in the State this season were passed through. Harvesting…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Saturday Butter
In a letter to Mr. Beeby, Minister for Labor and Industry, Mr. G. Saunders, secretary of the Milk and Ice Carters and Dairymen's Employees' Union, refers to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Crop Burnt. Gundagai
A fire started on Mr. O. Dowling's wheat paddock at Coolac whilst stripping operations were in progress, and 120 acres of standing crops were burned…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Produce. Butter Supply
Business was normal in the dairy produce section of the Sussex-street markets yesterday. A fair supply of new-laid eggs was on hand, but the demand was stiong, and a…
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