Wheat For Horses. Query and Answer
"North-West" writes:—"Can you let me know, per the Journal, as to whether or not wheat can be fed to working horses, as a substitute for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1919
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Country Producers' Selling Co. Reports. Wool Report
We held our second appraisement of the New York on the 22nd inst. We [?]ote some interesting Information received from Yorkshire with regard to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Five Shillings. New All-round Price for Wheat
Mr. Grahame, who returned from Melbourne, after having attended a sitting of the Federal Wheat Board, said that the board had decided to raise the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Disposal of Wool. Control Being, Removed. London
Mr. Arthur Goldfinch, of the Wool Council, London, said the danger of a short supply of wool was passed. Sufficient was now available to keep the mills of England working full…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Future of Wool. Relinquishing Control. London, Jan. 24
Mr. A. Goldfinch, Director of Raw Material, speaking at the Wool Council in London, said that the danger of a short supply of wool had passed. Sufficient was now…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Help For Farmers. the Government Scheme
The Minister for Lands has circularised shire presidents throughout the State asking them to take control of the Government scheme for rendering…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bathurst Experiment Farm
BATHURST.—In a statement covering the season's operations at the State Experiment Farm, the manager (Mr. May) announces that the wheat crops have averaged 20…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the Land. Quick-growing Fodder Crops
In view of the dopliction of reserves of fodder and the serious damage done to ordinary pastures—especially to paspalum—by the phenomenally dry conditions of the pust few…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Indian Jute Crop
The preliminary forecast of the Indian jute crop for 1918 has recently been published. The consolidated statement for Bengal Bihar and Orissa…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →French Sugar Crop. Five Years to Restore It
Four hundred and fifty million francs (£18,000,000) is a round estimate of the coat of re-equipping the beet sugar factories of France destroyed or…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Drought and Dairying
LISMORE.--The intense dry weather of the past week had a particularly disastrous effect upon pastures, and caused a further big drop in butter production. Practically all grass in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy Cattle
During the early stages of the dry spell, many dairymen increased the numerical strength of their herds, in order to keep pace with the keen…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool and Wheat Carrying Records.—lambs at Yanco
ABOUT a year ago we published a photograph of a record load of wool carried from Botany to Miller's Point, Sydney. It consisted of 54 balesâtwo more than had ever been carried on a city waggon before. Since…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Sheep-shearing
Phil: Schools where sheep shearing by machinery is taught are conducted in Sydney, and probably your best plan would be to attend one of these classes…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Homebush Sales Ah Irregular Demand for Sheep, But Prices Unaltered. Cattle Slightly Cheaper
At the Homebush (Sydney) live-stock market on Monday 38,700 sheen were yarded, although only 35,717 were drawn for. On account of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Position Serious
The weather conditions in N.S.W., Queensland, Victoria, and South Australia, were considered by many to be favorable for a general downpour at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter-fat Content
With regard to richness of milk in relation to age, Eckles did not find such marked differences, but the following table shows the development, the fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Sales
Thirty thousand tons of Australian wheat have been sold to the Indian Government had agreed to forego 30,000 Senator Russell stated that the Imperial…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farmers and Wheat Board. Elective Representatives
The Australian Farmers' Federal Organisation, at its meeting in Melbourne, adopted a resolution that farmers' representatives to all Wheat Boards should be elected by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Pool and the Wheat Owners
THE FARMERS: Surely we could posh that lot of bounders off if we all tackled them together! It's our wheat; let us conduct our own affairs…
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