The Wheat Pool £2,626,000 Paid to Growers Sales Worth £16,772,000 MELBOURNE
The Sun · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 5
Returns supplied to-day by the Australian Wheat Board show that up till Monday 12,750,000 bags of wheat from the 1916-17 harvest had been put into the wheat pool. To…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Produce. Dairy. Position of Egg Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 15
That the high prices ruling for now-laid eggs here provide a tempting market for other States is borne out by the statement that shipments of Adelaide eggs are likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Bygone Bush Types and Phases
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 11
"Overlanding" with cattle was at one time a business which involved great personal risk and hardship; but to the drover with the true instinct of the bushman the clement of peril…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farmers and Settlers. Conference with Ministers
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 11
The annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association will commence on July 9. The executive annual report will be issued on May 9, and resolutions for classification on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Premier's Policy Speech Farmers and Settlers Expectant
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 8
The executive of the Farmers and Settlors' Association has lately been considering the State political situation. Mr. Beeby, who in the Progressive party's…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oban Soldiers' Farms. Increasing the Areas
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 7
MUDGEE.--Recently the Government purchased the Oban estate, near Coolah, from Mr P. H. Morton, to subdivide into farms for returned soldiers. At a clearing sale held at Oban…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Soil. Farmers and Settlers, the Executive at Work
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 February 1917 · page 7
The executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association hits had n Bitting in Sydney this week, extending over several days, the full council, with the exception of Mr. Lodge(on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Chartering Wheat Ships London
The Sun · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 1
An executive committee which is controlling charters between the Allies has approved of the formation of an Australian committee to arrange the chartering of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Outlook for Wheat Chance for Australia
The Sun · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 7
Discussing the outlook for wheat yesterday in the world's markets, a Sydney merchant pointed out that if the statistics published by the recognised authorities on cereals…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Blowfly Pest Terrible Sheep Losses 33 Per Cent. Deaths
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 9
It is stated on the best of anti-ority that the losses of sheep from the blowfly pest in N.S. Wales and Queensland are now assuming terrible proportions…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farmer's Corset Display
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 7
Ladies who have made a study of style and elegance in their corset wear, know from past experience that these essential qualities are to be found in the corsets stocked by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Veterinary Farm Delay in Starting
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 13
The Bite has been secured for a State veterinary farm at Macquarie Fields ; but what should be a most useful establishment has not yet started…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Daylight Saving Farmers Condemn Act
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 2
At a recent meeting of the Executive Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S. Wales, the Daylight Saving Act was condemned in its application to rural industries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A Co-operative Scheme Favored by Farmers and Settlers
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 9
There seems little doubt that the creation of the wheat pool, and the introduction at an early late of the elevator system, are destined to bring about radical changes in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Damaged Crops Temora's Big Losses
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 9
One of the best known wheat growers in the State, Mr. W. Cartwright, estimates that the oss of wheat due to heavy rains and storms amounts to something like 66 per cent, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farmers Want Bulk Handling
Sunday Times · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 9
During the past week the executive of the New South Wales Farmers and Settlers' Association discussed the matter of the grain elevators. The general Secretary. Mr. T. I…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New War Loan Farmer's Employees Subscribe £8650
The Sun · Sunday 11 February 1917 · page 10
The employees of Farmer and Co., Ltd., Sydney, who also subscribed to the previous war loans, have made the splendid contribution of £8650 to the new issue. This…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Ulmarra Butter Factory
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 5
GRAFTON.—During the past half-year the Pioneer Dairy Factory, Ulmarra, manufactured 330 tons of butter, an increase of 151 tons on the same period of last year. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Produce. Australian Butter Markets
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 9
Prescott, Ltd., writes as follows:- Butter.—The increased demand has made it necessary to enlarge the quota for local sale to 55 per cent., commencing on 12th inst. The weekly output…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Phenomenal Wheat Yield
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 12 February 1917 · page 7
Mr. Philip Henry Bolte, of West Wyalong, a well-known farmer there, writing to Sir Joseph Carruthers, under date of February 7, says:-- "I sowed .one bushel of your Marquis wheat…
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