No Bags for New Wheat
The imppssibiility, of getting new wheat sacks is greatly inconveniencing farmers around Mandurama. Wheat is ready for stripping and local business…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1918
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Price of Butter in Perth. Perth
In the progress report issued to-day the Cost of Living Commission states that the price of butter could be reduced 1Id per lb by the establishment of a floor, as in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Late Commercial. Melbourne Sheep Sales. Melbourne
In the live stock market today, 17,400 fat sheep were penned, a fair proportion being of from good to prime quality. There was an excellent attendance of the trade, and the market was slightly easier all round,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Small Men's Wool Queensland Scheme
A message from Brisbane states:—"Small sheep farmers of Queensland are appreciating the scheme whereby the Department of Agriculture handles…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Reports. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd
Approximately 310,000 bales, of wool are in Sydney stores awaiting appraisement. Arrivals since July 1 total 500,000 bales, but 190,000 bales have been dealt with. The…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wool Control After the War
The general impression of the trade has been that the system of controlling woll supplies is likely to be continued for some time after the war. A…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →On the Land. Future of Wheat
The future of the wheat-growing industry is evidently a matter of concern in other countries apart from Australia. Here the position reached unquestionably is most serious…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cultivation. R.A.S. Wheat Competition
A few remarks under the various headings for which points are allotted on the R.A.S. Wheat Competition, published in our issue of last week, may be of interest…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →HOMEBUSH. Monday's Fat Stock Sales. Sheep and Lambs
There were 14,532 sheep listed for sale, and the pennings, including lambs, totalled 14.063. These included all descriptions of merinos and crossbroils, from just off shears…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Dorset Horn Sheep 15 Stud Ewes.—20 Lambs
By the s.s. "Port Pirie," which reached Sydney some time ago, Mr. H. S. Henley, of "Bussett Downs" Cowra, received a consignment of 17…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wool Trade Review. New Year's Appraisements
Now regulations have been issued by the authorities as to the weights of bales of wool. Hitherto the customary regulations were that a bale of greasy wool, to be recognised as a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Field Orchard and Garden Crops. Wheat Yields Federation Takes First Place R.A.S., Awards for Crowing Crops
The N.S.W. Inspector of Agriculture (Mr. H. C. Stening), who has acted as judge for the second field-wheat competition held by the Royal Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australian Produce Abroad. Wheat. London, Nov. 16
Australian wheat ia officially quoted on the Baltic Exchange (London) at 77/6. COPRA. Copra ia quiet and inactive, South Sea is still…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Food Difficulties in London Butter 26 to 3- a Pound
News by the last mail in regard to the food problem in London is that sugar can hardly bo bought at all, and that butter is from 2s 3d to 3s a pound when you can get it. Tea…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →What Readers Think Wheat Storage, Old and New
"Gerringong" had been reading of the past:— Apropos of the burning question of the preservation of our wheat harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Dairy-farmer's Death. Fatal Fall Over a Cliff
A dairy farmer named James Madden died on Wednesday morning from the effects of a fall he received the previous day over the side of a cliff. Madden was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Control of Wool Trade the Tonnage Difficulty. London
A deputation of the Wool and Textile Association waited on Sir A. Stanley, president of tho Board of Trade, respecting the Imports and Exports Control Bill. They asked that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Flocks and Herds - Breeding and Feeding. the Cattle Tick Compulsery Dipping Inaugurated Despite Much Opposition
Compulsory dipping bas been in force . In the Tweed (N.S.W.) cattle-tick quarantine area since the beginning of December, and despite the opposition that is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bulk Handling of Wheat O. J. Griffin's Gravitation Scheme. Ignored by the Authorities
Mr. O. J. Griflin, of Grong Glong (N.S.W.), has designed a scheme for the handling of wheat in bulk on farms and at railway s[?]ings, which, he clams, is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →THE N.S.W. Wheat Silos, To be Ready for the 1918-19 [?]
Referring to the wheat elevator and silo construction scheme for which tenders have been accepted by the N.S.W. Government the Under. Secretary for…
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