Farmers' Candidates. To Contest the Senate Elections
The secretary of the victorian Farmers' Union (Mr. Hall) stated last week that at a special meeting of the Federal Farmers' Organisation it had…
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Crops for Hay. Conditions of the Government Advance
In the House of Representatives on December 20 last the Acting-Prime Minister announced that as there was a likelihood of great shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oversea Market Cables. Dairy Produce. London, Jan. 30
The position with regard to butter and cheese is without change. CEREALS. Wheat and flour are quiet. Neither…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Grip of the Drought. Farmers Selling Out
The protracted drought which has prevailed in this State for the past four or five months shows some signs of breaking, though the position of the farmer and the pastoralist in many…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Valuable Fodder Crop
Saecaline, the now cane fodder, which when planted in drills renews its crop from three to five years, has proved itself particularly adapted to the South Coast. A crop grown…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drought Minimised. Results of Good Farming
In one of the worst seasons from an agricultural point of view experienced in the west, the Condobolin Experiment Farm has harvested 500 bags of wheat and 300 tons of hay from…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Soil. Science in Dairying. Experts' Investigations
Scientific investigations into the manufacture of dairy products, such as butter and cheese are being carried out in the Richmond River districts by the Department of Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Cattle
The prices of dairy cattle are inclined to weaken, in view of the recent rains in N.S.W. not being general. Milkers, ordinary £7 to £12, good £14 to £24,…
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Sydney.—There has been a clean sweep of all stocks available this week, and some buyers were not able to procure the whole of their requirements…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Straying Cattle
The law provides that whosoever suffers any kind of swine, or horse, ass, mule, sheep, goat, or other battle be longing to him, or under his charge, to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Scarcity of Butter
Bathurst's cream supplies have become inconveniently low, and the prospects do not relieve the outlook. The growing scarcity of feed and the disposal…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Butter Making Extraordinary
Paul Cupid: Speaking to a friend recently About the improvement in butter making brought about by the steam-driven factory churn compared with the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Notes. Wheat
About 40 per cent, of the wheat growers in the four Australian wheat-growing States during the seasons 1915-16, 11916-17, 1917-18, is still in stock. For…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Hungry Wool
Drover: When a wool is inclined to be too fine, otherwise too effeminate or delicate, and the staples are thin or shelly-looking, it is called "hungry wool." A…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Sale of Stud Sheep
In our advertising columns Messrs. Guinness arid LeCren, Limited, announce that they will sell by auction, on March 11, at Redlands, Redcliff, near Waimate…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Price of Wool
As a straw showing how the wind blows the National Sheenbreeders' Association of England, at its annual meeting, resolved that "owing to the increased cost of production…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter and Cheese. Insufficient Supplies
There was only about half enough butter to supply the requirements of retailers in t[?] wholesale market yesterday. This was due in some measure to the delayed imports from…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →High Prices for Milk Cattle
A record Friesian price was made early in September at a sale of those cattle held at Roos Hall, Beccles, England, where the imported cow Golf Sietske,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Inquiry. Witness Claims Protection
ADELAIDE, Tuesday.--Before giving evidence before the Wheat Commission to-day Mr. G. G. Nicholls, manager of the wheat scheme, claimed "the fullest prelection and the moral support…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Certificates. Conversions to Scrip
The secretary of the Department of Agriculture states that, contrary to the general impression that the farmers of this State have sold the bulk of their certificates in the wheat…
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