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The Australian Wheat Fool has advance the price of wheat for flour—for export to Eastern ports, shipment to end of April— [?] per bushel on trucks Darling Harber: and for [?] to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →OUR Albury correspondent writes: — "Considerable rain having fallen over the wheat-growing: areas of Riverina. it is feared that heavy damage will be done to the grain crops. However, a fair proportion of the crop had been taken off up to the end of last week. The yields were patchy, going from 3 to 7 bags per…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →The wheat-grower in Australia need fear no damage in the future from the wheat weevil. This is the assurance of Professor H. Maxwell-Lefroy, who is prepared to stake his professional reputation upon being able to absolutely control this expensive pest It is the brightest news the farmers have heard, since the war began at least. Prior to that the weevil was not a serious factor in the business. But with the prospect of wheat having to be stored in this country for four or five years — not a stack…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →READERS of the " Mail " (writes Arnold Weber, of the Public school at…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →At the conference of primary producers, held at Parliament House. Sydney, yesterday afternoon, at the invitation of the Government Mr. Ashford (Minister for Lands) invited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A spell of warm, dry weather would be welcome in view of the harvesting, and also to give such vegetables as pumpkins, melons, etc., a chance to develop. Grapes are also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Yesterday morning the wheat lumpers for the milling company struck work. The men asked for 2s 6d per hour. The company refused to accede to the demands. A large number…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →At Parliament House yesterday the Minister for Lands (Mr. Ashford) opened an important conference, of pastoralists and farmers to discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In response to the Government's Invitation to a conference to consider "a scheme for the ex-prasion of the live stock industry in place of wheatgrowing about 200 representatives of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The relative importance of stock-raising and wheat-growing, and the position of the wheat industry, as affected by abnormal times—a question raised originally in the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →FORBES: The farmers have been disheartened by the waste of wheat. It looks as though sheep-raising will become much more popular than wheat-growing here during the next couple of years.--"Sun's" correspondent. DUBBO:--The opinion here is that instead of discouraging wheat-growing, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Manchester "Guardian" says that the authorities are brining German prisoner from France to work on farms in the south of England. Previous experiments along these…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The inquest on Ebenezer Denney, farmer, who died on Thursday from a gunshot wound, was resumed to-day. Margaret Denney, aged 12, corroborated the evidence of Mrs. Denney…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →JONES ISLAND.—The following are the Manning River Co-operative Dairy Company's returns for December:—Suppliers were paid [?]/2¼ for choicest commercial butter, and 1/1¼…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A brisk business was transacted in dairy produce lines yesterday. Bacon and hams were extremely scarce, and in most cases agents were as far as a weck behind with…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Never has the Maitland district, presented more flourishing appearance than It. docs at present. Thoro is an abundance of natural feed for stock, and the various crops are…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →About this time many hens may be expected to go off laying, and others only to lay in an erratic manner and very soon to fall into moult, say the "Weekly Notes" published by the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Mr. Holman has received a letter from Mr. M. A. Busholl, a representative of the Chamber of Commerce, Oaklands, California, U.S.A., Who recently made a tour of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. John Bridge & Co., Ltd., report: Fresh arrangements regarding the offering of wool for appraisement have been sprung upon the trade, and will have the effect, of giving priority of appraisement to a considerable quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →In Australia the farmers receive 4/9 per bushel, f.o.b., for their wheat, while in New Zealand the price is 5/10. But in Canada and the United States the price paid to the farmers is 9/2 1/2 per bushel, with f.o.b. charges paid by the buyers. Further than this, they are guaranteed this…
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