Butter Trade. and English Margarine
Mr. L. Lowsby, well known to the Australian butter trade, has returned to Australia after upwards of two years in England. He went to England in August 1916, to represent the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1918
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Agricultural & Pastoral Shows Dates for Forthcoming Events
(The Editor will feel obliged if secretaries of Agricultural and other allows will forward dates, which we publish free of charge. We are particularly anxious to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Record Prides for Wool
At the wool appraisements during the past week several lots have realised very high prices, and new records have been established, both for merino and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"John Bridge" Reports WOOL
The authorities in England have had before them for some considerable period the question or controlling imports and exports for a more or less…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worms in Sheep Answer to Query
"Desirous" writes:—"Would you kindly tell me the correct recipe for boiling arsenic for dosing sheep; also the correct measure to give to each…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep. a Firm Market
There was a penning at Homebush yesterday of 10,041 sheep and lambs from 47 owners. The quality of the offering was good, and it embraced a liberal supply of prime sheep,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Victoria's Sheep Increase. No Need for Legislation
In commenting on the proposal of the politicians to prohibit the killing of young stock, the Melbourne Weekly Times says: It is apparent that so far as…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Field Wheat Trials American Varieties Suited
Messrs. Darcy Brothers, of Dandaraga, Berrigan, conducted field trials this season with a number of varieties of wheat. The season suited the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Field, Orchard and Garden Crops. Wheat-breeding The F.A.Q. Standard South Australia Lowest on Record
The corn-trade sectional committee of the South Australian Chamber of Commerce has fixed the l.a.q. standard of wheat for South Australian at [?] to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Discharged Soldiers. Training As Wool Classers
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →Livestock and Wheat Mr. Ashford Further Explains
Mr. W. G. Ashford (Minister for Lands) referred at Bathurst on Monday to what he characterised as "the scare heading, 'Wheat or Meat' used…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter, Bacon and Cheese Inter-state Commission Resumes Inquiries
The General Secretary of the Primary Producers' Union advises that the Secretary of the Interstate Commission has written him to say that the Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cattle From the Floods, Slaughtered fer Food in Queensland
The greater part of the meat sold recently in the Queensland state butchers shope in the Rockhampton district was from cattle rescued from the Hooded…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter or Margarine ? How Markets are Affected Advice to Producers
That the enormous extent to which margarine has been substituted for butter In the United Kingdom is likely to have a very serious effect on tho Australian product is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Central Wheat Board Growers' Representative Barred From Meetings
The General Secretary of the Primary Producers' Union reported that from advices which he had received, it was learned that the duly-elected…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Wheat-stacks at Geurie. More Accommodation Required
As a result of representations made by prominent wheat-growers in the Geurle (N.S.W.) district, the Inspector from the N. S.W. Wheat Board (Mr. Lane) paid a…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The North Western Cattle Trade. The Government Inquiring for Vessels
The Honorary Minister for the North West (Mr. R. Underwood), says the "West Australian," was asked if the position regarding the shipping…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat-lumpers on Strike. Stacking Suspended in W.A.
Wheat-lumpers at the government receiving depot at Midland Junction (W.A.) demanded an increase, of pay from 2/ to 2/6. per hour last week, and on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Diseases The Abortion Danger an American Journal Utters a Warning
The "Farm Journal" warns the dairymen and other cattle-breeders of America that unless they awaken to the serious loss occasioned by contagious abortion, the loss…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat and the Weevil. Ridding the Grain of the Post
"Taxpayer,'' referring to the statement that weevils are unable to breed or. inJure wheat in which there is-less than six per cent, of moisture, writes:—…
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