Importance of Wool. Japan Buys in U.s.a
A cablegram from Salt Lake City states that M. Tanlmura, Japanese Live Stock Commissioner, in a speech at the convention of the Wool-growers' Association, said the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming & the land, 1918
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Bunyip Extolled a Most Valuable Early Wheat. Needs Heavy Seeding
The "Australasian" commends Bunyip as an early wheat for dry districts. The returns just published of the season's experiments at Longerenong Agricul-…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Poultry Advice Uncle Wiseman's Answers to Questions, Price of Chick-wheat
Liverpool (N.S.W.) states that he is compelled to pay 5/9 per bushel for chick, wheat though he has heard that the State Wheat Board is selling wheat for poultry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →WHEAT-BREEDING Experiments In Two States Field Plot Yields in the South
Wheat experiment-plots in the south-western districts of New South Wales have, now been harvested. Despite adverse weather conditions the yields have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Livestock and Wheat The Position To-Day What Should the State Do About It?
Should the State stand by aud see its people go and do the wrong things? Is it not the business of the State to see that its people are engaged in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat or Meat? Minister Says Meat Serious Position Is Revealed Reduce Cultivation to Minimum
A vigorous and exhaustive review of the relative value of stock-raising and wheat-growing was delivered by the Minister for Lands before the large and representative conference of producers that assembled at Parliament House this afternoon. "I advocate," said the Minister, a reduction of the wheat area to the minimum at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Meat or Wheat. Facing the Future. Important Conference Opened. Minister Urges Stock Raising Questions of Finance and Shipping
The Minister for Lands this afternoon opened an important conference of pastoralists and farmers at Parliament House to [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mice. Galah, and Crow. Add to Farmer's Troubles Orange
Miss are again [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bush and Crop Fires a Recurrence in Western N.S.W. Outbreaks in Various Centres
Although the recent phenomenal rain-fall had extinguished most of the bush-fires throughout New South Wales, the subsequent hot weather has provided…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →One Big Union. N.Z. Farm-workers Join the A.W.U.
A ballot of the members of the Agricultural and Pastoral Union of New Zealand on the proposal to link up with the Australian Workers Union resulted in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brisbane Dairy Produce
Messrs. J. C. Button Propty., Ltd., [?]ander date of Friday last forward the following report of the Bristane dairy produce market:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farmer's Duty The Men and Food-Stufts How American Farmers See the Facts
When the farmer harvested his 1910 corn crop we were at peace, and the great European quarrel apparently had affected us only incidentally and possibly to our…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers and the Income Tax. Allowance for Keep of Employee
The member of Cunningham, in the Queensland Legislative Assembly (Mr. Grayson), recently interested himself in the matter of the amounts allowable to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Cleanliness a Profitable Ideal Clean Conditions Mean Clean Milk
A circular of the Wisconsin Agricultural College emphasises the vital importance of cleanly conditions in the milking-shed, and generally throughout…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Factory Report, Bega
Dairyman received record cheques for December cream supplies to the Bega Co-operative Factory, which paid a total of £10.596, at the rate of 1s, gold, per 1b, for choices, and 1s 8ld, for first…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cotton in Queensland Official Indifference to the Crop. "Conspiracy of Silence."
Mr. Daniel Jones, writing in reference to the possibility of cotton-growing in Queensland, and the "conspiracy of silence" on the part of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Season Reports. Crop Conditions and Prospects
The season at Cooms bas been a most profile [?]. Lucerse is some instances has grown to 6lt in length. the average height of the crop from which it was takes excistaged about 4ft…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Something Like a Crop
Before Christmas the record wheat yield for the Dubbo district was 14 bags to the acre, from a 20-acre crop on Alton Park, Magriguy, grown by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Heavy Plum Crop
From a seven-year-old black Japanese plum tree, grown by Mr. James Benn, Castle Hill, 40 boxes (half-bushel) were picked. This, it is claimed, is a record. Last year the same…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Produce. Dairy
A brisk trade was effected by agents in almost all lines of dairy produce along Sussex-street yosterday. There was very little out of the ordinary to report. Bacon…
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