Produce. Australian Butter Markets
Sydney.—The usual local trade continues, and arrivals exceed 40,000 boxes weekly. Melbourne.—There is [?] strong local and interstate demand for all choicest brands, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farming & the land, 1918
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Growing More Wheat
DUBBO.--Many farmers in the district are Ploughing, and many hundreds of acres are now lying summer fallow. The recent rains have caused all the grass, weeds, and other…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hobart Wool Appraisement
LAUNCESTON, Sunday.--The second wool appraisement of the season in Launceston was completed on Friday evening, and appraisers returned to the mainland by Saturday's boat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter. Cheese, Bacon. and Milk Prices
[?] Commission [?] at [?] the Chief [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tasmanian Wool Appraisements. Launceston
The results of the appraisement of wool were made known to-day. Altogether [?] bales and 3179 bags and fadges were submitted. Prices generally were very satisfactory. The…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Handling. Strike in West Australia
PERTH, Sunday.--The men lumping for the pool wheat at Midland Junction and Spencer's Brook sheds, who struck for a rise from 2s to 2s 6d per hour, have been paid off by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mixed Marriages. Dr. Kelly's Pastoral Letter. Dissension in Roman Catholic Church
In the course of a pastoral letter Dr. Kelly, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, says:— "Notwithstanding the dire visitation of universal war, and so protracted we live in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Soil. State Dairying. Experiment Farms' Results
In common with the dairy farmer the Department of Agriculture apparently had better production and financial results for the 1916- 17 year. There is little or nothing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Argentine Anarchy. Widespread Strike. Wheat Trains Destroyed. Buenos Ayres
The outbreak of a general railway strike in the Argentine has created a situation of great gravity. There have been scenes of violent disorder…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fires in Cane Crops. Italians Called to the Colors. Melbourne [?]
Mr. Anthony Gordon, a [?] water, on the Richmond [?] experience of having had [?] in a little over 12 month With [?] to [?] are or are not required to [?] vice to the Italian Army [?] in Australia are being called [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Heavy Oat Crop
PARKES.—Mr. M. Dwyer, of Derrymore, near Parkes, has [?]ust cleaned up 11 acres of [?]ats for an average yield of 73½ bushels per [?]re…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Queensland Sugar Crop. Cadet Entomologist Wanted
BRISBANE, Sunday.--Attention has been given by those concerned to the disposal of next year's sugar crop. Mr. Lennon, Minister for Agriculture, stated yesterday that it was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rabbits in W.a. Farmers Fail to Destroy
PERTH, Sunday.--The Minister for Agriculture declares that the department has done everything possible to avert the rabbit pest, but the farmers would not destroy. All of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep and Cattle Dips
Under the War precautions [?] Regulations all persons firms, or companies who at [?] on January 30 last had in their [?] their control or i transit stocks of sheep and cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle
Moderate supply. Quality good. Market generally firmer and places dearer. Fifty-eight consignments, representing a supply of 1347 cattle, were listed for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep
Light supply. Quality good. Market firmer. Notwithstanding the high prices on Thursday last, to-day's were generally…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Countey News. Sheep-stealing
GLEN INNES.—At the Quarter Sessions, before Judge Hamilton, Michael Joseph Hanley was charged on two counts with stealing three sheep on each count, the property of Finlay…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Weeds Ruin Wheat
GRENFELL.—Through the unprecedented prowth of thistles and rubbish this year, hundreds of acres will not be stripped for wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Big Wheat Stack
BATHURST.—Nearly 200 men in the employ of the Railway Department have begun work at Springhill, preparatory to the erection of what will be one of the biggest wheat stacks…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →German Wheat Figures
It is staled that United States officials are carrying out the closest search into all passenger incoming liners, fearing the importation of German fungus…
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