Dairy Factory Reports, Cow's Harbor
The output for December at the [?] Harbor Butter Factory was [?] of butter, a big increase over that of the previous month. For the six months ended November Company…
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Season Reports. Conditions of the Dairy Pastures
Steady rain has fallen throughout the [?] district, and dairymen would be glad of a hue spell. There is an abundance of grass, and fall stock are in tip-top condition…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A Farms Competition a Seven-years' Scheme of Improvement. for the Sydney District
A movement in which all interested in poultry anywhere in the neighborhood of Sydney, can join, is the poultry-farms competition of the Poultry Club of New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Winter Fodders Cereal Experiment-Plots Field Crops for Green-feed and Hay
A crop of wheat on Mr. R. Richard, son's farm at Mundrook, on the manning River (N.S.W.), grown as an experiment, yielded 6-tons of green fodder per acre…
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The outlook for the 1918 broom-millet crop, owing to excessive rains and other seasonal drawbacks, is anything but promising. There has been a reduction…
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Dear "Planets.—Many thanks for the League form which I received yesterday evening. I have filled it in and am sending it back with this. Five or…
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TAREE.—The Upper Manning Co—op. Dairy Company. Ltd., is about to erect a new factory on the deepwater connection at Chatham, Taree, and the contract has been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Produce. Dairy
There was a further increase in the price of new-laid eggs yesterday Supplies were again limited but a keen dumand still ruled, and choice graded lots commanded 1/8…
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Important conferences are at present pending between the metropolitan dairy employers and their employees in reference to proposed improved working conditions. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Crops and the Harvest
BATHURST.--Harvesting is practically complete. Fruit, maize, and potato crops and market gardens have benefited Immensely as a result of the recent soaking rains, particularly…
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The general secretary of the Primary Producers' Union stated yesterday that recently he brought under the notice of the Director of Munitions the fact that the dairying Industry…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep-fly Pest. Pastoral Committee's Investigations
Mr. James Kidd, the president of the pastoral committee for the investigation of the blowfly pest, referring yesterday to the important work his committee has had in hand…
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The work the pastoral committee for the investigation of the blow-fly post has had in hand for the past few years has to a great extent been hampered by the difficulty sometimes…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Incendiarism Suspected. Fires in Wheat Crops
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ADELONG, Friday.—A fire started in the property known as The Island, and spread to another stack, both being burnt. From these stacks the Are got across the road—a short…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bush Fires. Wheat Crops Destroyed. Forbes
Two bush fires have occurred in this district during the week. On Mr. Jas. Henderson's property, on the Grenfell road, 65 acres of standing crop, which was giving eight bags…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Kiama Show. Record Cattle Exhibit
KIAMA, Friday.—The Kiama Society set the ball rolling of the South Coast shows, to the accompaniment of ideal weather to-day. District cattle, renowned throughout the State,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat or Meat ? Emphatic Tem0ra Share Farmers' Point of View TEMORA
The question "Wheat or Meat?" is a burning one in this district, where it is estimated about 80 per cent, of the farmers favor the continuance of wheat-growing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Sheep in Hay District Hay
The Hay Pastures Protection Board's stock returns on December 31 are:--Horses, 5013; cattle, 12,931; sheep, 958,550. The figures show an increase of 2835 cattle and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Produce. Wheat and Flour by Rail
There were 701 tons of wheat and 210 tons of flour manifested to arrive at Darling Harbor and Sydney substations yesterday…
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