Agistment of Sheep
N.MeL. writes:—We send sheep away from the station for agistment. After a period of four monthss these sheep are brought back to the station to be shorn, and within one…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farming & the land, 1918
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The Sheep Fly
The Armidale stock inspector reports that the blowfly pest is very bad, especially with the woolly sheep and amongst the shorn sheep where any cute had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Experiments
Mr. McDiarmid, inspector of Agriculture for the north and north-west sections, has prepared the following report on wheat experiments conducted during…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Wheat Crop. the Victorian Position
The marked reduction in the wheat acreage in New South Wales and the causes of the decline in the industry were recently pointed out and examined…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fire in Wheat Crops. Berrigan
A fire on Mr. J. McCullock's property at Mairjimmy destroyed about 200 acres of it crop of growing wheat. A large body of fighters worked strenuously to subdue the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →A Buyer Wanted. New Wheat Crop
MELBOURNE, Thursday.-- The fact that no buyer has yet appeared for any portion of the 1917-18 wheat crop grain, which Is already coming in freely from the farms, is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd
Our first catalogue of the New Year will be brought forward on the 7th instant, when about 5000 bales will be submitted…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Annual Review of Pastoral Industry
Reviewing the conditions of the pastoral industries during 1917, the "Sydney Morning Herald" says:— "The pastoral industry has, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Private Sale of Butter
T.S. asks:—In making butter is a person leaving himself liable for Riving butter to a friend without having his dairy registered? Answer:—No…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Big Charleville Cattle Sale
In this issue Messrs. Moreheads, Ltd., Brisbane, advertise an important sale by auction at Charleville for about the 19th January next, of 900/1000 high-class…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Cattle Grazing on Streets
We learn that Coonamble Council has practically given stock owners permission to graze stock on the streets, provided the impounding fee payable in such cases…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Testing Sheep-fly Parasites
The offer of the sheep-fly Investigation committee, through the P.P. boards, to supply calchid wasp parasites to pastoralists prepared to test value has brought a great rush of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Position
Mr. Robert Gibson, Harden, writes:—The wheat industry in N.S.W. is in a critical condition. If it goes down it means that only about one-tenth of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World's Wheat Yield
The International Agricultural Institute estimates the world's wheat yield for 1917, exclusive of Russia, the Central Powers, and Australasia, at…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat in Heaps
Owing to the shortage of cornsacks, numbers of farmers around West Wyalong are heaping wheat loose on the ground, and several have not started…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wheat Commissioners' Visit
The Imperial Wheat. Commissioners, Mr. Love and Professor Maxwell Lefoy, who are in Sydney in connection with the taking over of last year's wheat on behalf of the British…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool-Selling Brokers' Association Wool Reports
The best news available since our last issue has been the information regarding future appraisements. There are now four full series of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wheat Production a Very Serious Position Area Under Crop Greatly Decreasing
Commenting upon the marked reduction in the area placed under wheat in Victoria, the "Argus" attributes the reduced cropping to labor conditions and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Sale Dates Fixed
Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The Central Wool Committee has arranged to hold four series of wool appraisements in Sydney. Sales will commence on January…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Loadings and Stackings
During the week ended December 29 the quantity of wheat despatched from country stations was 131,196 bags. From the opening of the present season on…
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