The Income Tax. the Value of Wheat
Many farmers have been given extension of time to make their State income tax returns. The trouble has arisen over the value which has to be put on the wheat which they have…
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Oversea Market Cables. Wheat. Chicago, Feb. 16
Chicago wheat futures are quoted thus:— May, opening 1.76[?] dollars, closing 1.72[?] dollars; July opening 1.50[?] dollars, closing 1.47[?] dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sussex-street Trade Heavy Butter Shipments Quotations Continue Firm
Heavy shipments of butter from the coastal factories reached the Sussex-street markets this morning. The Byron Bay district contributed 7377 boxes, Clarence 1001…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Soil English Wool Trade. a Romantic Year
BRADFORD, December 28.--The year 1916 will be known to succeeding generations as probably the most eventful from a wool trade point of view la the years over which the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Wool Trade. Lower Prices or Government Restrictions. (From Our Special Correspondent.) London, Dec. 21, 1916
The final series of the year has remarkable one in many ways. In Liverpool, at the East India wool sales, which closed last week, the buyers were required to sign…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The "Farm Dwelling" Competition A Queer Result
The Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. called for a competition for a cheap cottage to be suitable as a farm dwelling for returned soldiers; the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson, promising a Cup to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying at Yanco Settlers' Challenge Report
Mr. C. A. Auscombe, chairman, and Mr. O. R. Blackford, secreatary of the dairy section, Murrumbidgee Irrigation Farmers' Union, write:—We note that you give prominence in…
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At the Bradtord market to-day cross[?] were steady.Little private business is being done while the Government is [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Homebush Sales Only Light Supplies of Sheep Prices for Heavy-weight Cattle Lower. Homebush Sheep
At the Homebush [?] stock sales yesterday (Monday) 8106 sheep were yarded from forty owners. The quality ob offer was not up to that of late yardings, but…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Crop Prospects. LONDON,Monday Evening
It is believed that Jespite the efforts to increase food production, the wheat grown in 1917 will be less than in 1916,which will be partly due to the severe winter frosts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers' Wheat Trials IN N.S.W. South-western Districts. Wheat-growing a Failure
The president (Mr.' N. Graham), the hon. secretary (Mr. O. J. Newson), and the hon. treasurer. (Mr. R. Gibson), of the Murrumburrah (N.S.W.) branch of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wheat Position
Mr. E. H. B. Weaver, Forbes, writes, detailing his experience as a wheat grower during the past three seasons, and says: Under existing conditions wheat growing is an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Field, Orchard and Garden Crops. Wheat Problems The Closing of No. 1 Pool the Wheat-growers Final Dividend
Mr. Patten, M.H.R., asked the Prime Minister (Mr. Hughes) in the House of Representatives on Wednesday whether the farmers interested in the 1915-16…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmers' Wheat Trials. Experiment Plots in the South-western Districts
A further series of wheat experiment plots, conducted by farmers under the supervision of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, have been harvested in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Produce. Wheat and Flour
The fixed legal maximum prices for wheat, flour, mill ofial and bread remained unchanged yesterday. RAILWAY WHEAT MANIFEST…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Australian Wool Clip
During a discussion in the House of Commons on Thursday, Mr. Sherwell (Liberal member for Huddersfield) criticised the action of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"John Bridge" Reports. Wool
The work of appraising the values of wool clips has ceased for the time being. An interval of a fortnight is to take place before the appraisements…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cardinal Bourne. Optimistic Pastoral Letter. London, Feb. 18
Cardinal Bourne, in a pastoral letter, says:—"There is a spirit of hopefulness and certainty of success abroad such as was impossible during the more anxious periods of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Production. London, Feb. 19
It is believed that despite the efforts to increase food production, the wheat grown in 1917 will be less than in 1916, which will be partly due to the severe winter…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep and Lambs Firmer
The number of sheep and lambs drawn for at Homebush saleyards yesterday was about 8500, and 8105 were in the pens, from 40 owners. In weight, the general average of the…
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