Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep and Lambs. Drooping Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 9
From the beginning of yesterday's sale at Homebush, the market was lower for all descriptions of sheep and lambs, except, perhaps, prime heavy wethers. In all 16,845…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stud Beef Cattle Association's Work Growing Conference at Easter
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 7
The monthly meeting of the Council of the Stud Beet Cattle Breeders' Association of Australia was held last Thursday evening. The president (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wheat Harvest. Part Payment Ready. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 7
On Monday next the farmers of Australia will receive from the Commonwealth Government a sum of about £15,750,000. That amount represents the guaranteed advance of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Margarine Manufacture the Cohune Palm Provides More Oil. Butter's Great Rival
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 6
One of the greatest menaces to the dairying industry has been the gradual substitution of margarine for butter, and it is rather disquieting to note that a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Homebush Sales The Cattle Market Very Firm Advanced Prices for Prime Lambs
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 5
At the fat stock sales at the Homebush (Sydney) saleyards yesterday (Monday), 16,485 fat sheep were yarded, consisting mostly of merinos. The quality…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Travelling Stock Thefts No Redress Obtainable From Railways. Sheep Taken From Trucks
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 6
A North-western grazier complains to Uncle Wiseman concerning the serious losses be suffers by reason of thefts of sheep from the trucks…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Over £15,000,000 for Wheat First Instalment to Be Paid
Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 4
A dividend absorbing £15,750,000 representing the guarantead advance of 2s a bushel against f.s.q. wheat of 1917-18 crop delivered at railway stations, is to be paid to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stock or Wheat? Move by Cabinet. Meeting of Producers to Be Called
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 4
Tho Now South Wales Cabinet yesterday approved of a scheme submitted by Mr. Ashford (Minister for Lands), for the expansion of the live stock Industry, in place of Wheat-growing,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat-Storage Scheme the Erection of Silos Now Commencing. a Start in Riverina
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 7
A start was made yesterday (Monday) with the erection of wheat silos in the wheat-growing districts, in acceptdance with the scheme of the N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →15 Millions for Wheat. First Instalment Payable on Monday. Ominous Outlook for 1918
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 4
MELBOURNE. Monday.--Sir John Forrest (Treasurer), after a conference to-day with the Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, announced that the guaranteed advance of 3s a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Five Million Sacks. Available for Farmers. Melbourne, Tuesday Evening
Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 5
[?] charge [?] supplies, [?] afternoon to the [?] Sydney that there [?] on one seemed [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brisbane Dairy Produce
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 5
Messrs. J. C. Hutton Proprietary, Ltd., Brisbane, under date of Friday last, give the following report of the Brisbane dairy produce market:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farmer and the War of Two Duties, Which Is the Chief. a Predicament
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2
This is how the greatest farmers' jour-nal in America looks at it:-"Am I to seed fifty acres to wheat, breed ten sows for spring litters and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Latest War Cables "Farmer and [?]" office
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 2
BELGIUM.-It is learned from official Belgian sources that there were fifty-eight executions in Belgium recently, making a total of 170 for the year. They were for Patriotic "crimes." The victims included ten women. Three of them were between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, and there were several boys under twenty. All…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Season Reports. Conditions of the Dairy Pastures
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 6
During the last [?]ght the milk trade in the Wollongong district has been extremely brisk, and on several days about 10,000 [?], was pasteurised of the local creamery…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Dairy Industry The Export of Produce the Commonwealth to Take Control
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 6
The Common wealth Dairy Expert (Mr. O'Callaghan) had a conference last week with representatives of the N.S.W. Butter Shippers' Association. The purpose of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Bag Shortage a Concession to Victorian Farmers. N.S.W. Crowers Handicapped
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 7
Wheat placed by farmers into secondhand bags, including brushed sugar-sacks, because they were unable to obtain new sacks in time to save their…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Fire Scourge Crops and Stock Destroyed the Outbreak Checked by Rains
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 4
One of the beneficial effects of the heavy rains that occurred during the week-end was to extinguish the fires that have been raging in the crops and grass paddocks…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A New Strawberry. a Heavy Cropper from Woltongong
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 7
A promising seedling strawberry has been raised at Wollongong by Mr. R. N. Makin, who, after four years' experience of it speaks of it as a heavy cropper…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tasmanian Fruit Crops. Improvements in Handling
The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · page 7
After prolonged meetings, the Tasmanian Central Fruit Committee has decided to place the following recommendations before the Government which has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →