Helping the Sheep Farmer Queensland Scheme
BRISBANE, Monday.--Small sheep farmers or Queensland are appreciating the scheme whereby the Department of Agriculture handles their wool and puts it on the market under…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1918
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Wool Scarce in Germany
The German textile industry is naturally suffering through a shortage of the essential raw product. This industry, it is said, [?] now, like so many other staple industries,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Loadings and Stackings
During the week ended December 22 the quantity of wheat despatched from country stations was 238,652 bags. From the opening of the present season on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →World's Wheat Yield. London
The International Agricultural Institute estimates the world's wheat vield for 1917, exclusive of Russia, the Central Powers, and Australasia, at 998,638,000 cwts., 8.3 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Guarding. the Wheat How a Farmer Stopped a Fire Breaks Save Countryside Forbes
The immense value of fire-breaks in saving tho crops was exemplified on Saturday afternoon. A bush fire, which destroyed about 250. acres of growing crop, valued at about…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep. a Dearer Market
There was a penning at Homebush yesterday of a little over 14;000 sheep-about 500 fewer than was drawn for. The market was a particularly bright one. Competition was free,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wheat Crop
FORBES.—Owing to the continued spell of fine weather harvesting operations have proceeded at a satisfactory pace throughout the district. Many farmers are harvesting up to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Embroidery
The writer of "A Woman's Letter," under date, London, Ocober 17, describes the fascinating new embroidery, done in wool, which, she says, can so easily be done by girls at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Price of Wheat
The holding of a conference in Ottawa or Washington, before the end of the war, to discuss the question of fixing the price of wheat so as to avoid the possibility of a world…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The World's Wheat Supplies
It seems certain that, after the war, and when the world, has returned to its normal condition, there will be a good demand for every bushel of wheat grown in any country…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →N.S.W. Wheat
The following is the number of bags of wheat despatched from stations on all lines in New South Wales for the week ended December 22:-- JUNEE…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Butter Business. London, Nov. 16
The Food Controller has at last decided to fix the first-hand price of both Danish and Dutch at 22[?]/ per [?], ex port. This price came Into force for Dutch last week and for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Board's Overdraft Melbourne
The overdraft of the Australian Wheat Board on December 24 was £666,000. On that date South Australia was in debit £495,000; West Australia £108,000; and New South…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Salting Butter. How it Should he Done
While it may be pardonable to estimate the weight of butter in churning, which some are able to do with surprising accuracy, it is never a good plan to "guess" at the weight of the salt…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hints to Producers. Telling a Sheep's Age
A lamb has eight small first-teeth on the lower jaw. When the animal reaches the age of about one year, the middle pair are replaced by two permanent teeth; at the age of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat and Grass Burned. Berrigan
At North C[?]ree [?] on W. Adams property destroyed about [?] acres of [?] wheat and 1500 acres of grass before being [?]. Another fire consumed about [?]00 acres of wheat on the property…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the Land. Germany and Wool
Evidence of the shortage of wool In Germany Is gathered from some of the newspapers published by the enemy. Wool fabrics are exceedingly scarce, and fetching famine prices;…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Agricultural and Pastoral--For the Man on the Land. Condition of the Country. ARDLETHAN
The wheat yield will be about seven and eight bags to the acre. Harvesting is in full swing, and the shortage of bags is being felt. BLACKTOWN…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Wool Trade. Husbanding Supplies. (From Our Special Correspondent.) Bradford, Nov. 15
Evidence has accumulated during the past fortnight that arrivals of wool during the past six weeks have been tower than usual, and the whole shipping business Is having to be so…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Record Oat Crops
The Unga[?] correspondent of the [?] reports that farmers there are [?] many instance heavy yields are being [?]…
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