The Farm Vegetable Patch. Raising Seedlings in Warm Weather
With the arrival of warmer weather, greater difficulty is experienced in raising seedlings; of necessity, seeds are sown close to the surface, and in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farming & the land, 1924
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Crops Competition Success at Parkes PARKES
After morning a growing crop competition successfully for two seasons, the Parkes p. and A. Association has widened the sphere of its activities,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bangaroo Clydesdales. Transfer to Experiment Farms
The Minister for Agriculture Mr. F. A. Chaffey, M.L.A, has docided to transfer the Clydesdale stock at Nort Bangaroo Stud Farm to a number of experiment farms…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Produce. Dairy
Coastal rains at Christmas, supplemented by later falls, having greatly benefited the output of butter, an easier feeling prevailed yesterday in all quarters of "the street."…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →WORTH £7,000,000 Queensland Sugar Crop BRISBANE
If the estimate of 260,000 tons of raw sugar for Queensland is realised the crop should be worth over £7,000,000 to the State…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Mortgagees and Pests" Australian Dormouse Press Galls Farming Migration a Miserable Failure, But Refuses to Find Industrial Substitute 17 Millions in Customs Duties Means Australian Coolies and Belgian Artisans
The old-established daily newspapers of Sydney, and of most of Australia, keep their heads bonneted and bonnets tightly clamped against the dangerous intrusion of ideas. They are like the Rube of American legend, who was afraid to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Posters Farmer's Exhibition Australia's Opportunity
The exhibition of posters at Farmer's afforded a fascinating illustration of how the London and North-western railways, by employing the very finest examples in…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Slump in Values Cattle, Sheep, and Pigs Prices of Fat Stock
The ruling prices for stock in Sydney during the week were as follows:-- Although there was only a small…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wheat Harvest Increased Yield Statistician's Estimate
The Government Statistician (Mr. H. A. Smith) has issued a preliminary, estimate of the wheat harvest for the current season…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chaffey Getting Busy The Empire Exhibition Advertising Our Butter
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Chaffey) has taken up his work as chairman of the State Commission for the Empire Exhibition, to be held in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Position. Observations by Dalgety's Chairman
The world's demand for wool to-day is appreciably in excess of the present production. All qualities and descriptions will be required, and will realise…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Markets Australian Wheat Wanted LONDON, Friday Night
Australian wheat cargoes are still favored. For February shipment 46s 6d a quarter c.i.f. and e. is being asked. The same price is quoted for March and April shipments…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Prices Soar Yorkshire is Hungering for Supplies
Wool is up further! Those prophets who forecasted still higher values in the second half of the current wool-Belling season can say now, "We told…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hobart Wool Sales High Prices Realised HOBART
At the Hobart wool sales 14,650 bales were offered. The top price, 44½d, was obtained by Mr. Chas. Parsons, for 4 bales of super merino wool, beautifully…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fewer Ship and Cattle May Be Expected at Hombush Further Rain in North-west Will Govern Prices
Because of the sharp and substantial fall at Homebush, consumers should be getting cheaper meat. On Monday, at Homebush, values for fat stock fell a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The World of Finance New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co.'s Results. Comment on the Wool Position—The Week on the Stock
Operations were resumed on the Stock Exchange on Monday last, after a fortnight's closure for the Christmas and New Year vacation. Business opened strongly, and during the first few days a particularly heavy turnover was recorded, due largely to the execution of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Digger Farmer Sent for Trial
FORBES, Saturday.—Walter Patrick Vans returned soldier farmer, on Ooma Soidiers' Settlement, near Forbes, was committed for trial at a coronal inquiry…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ups and Downs in Many Lands Echoes of Brisbane's Double Suicide British Tommy Becomes Explorer, Motel Keeper, Captain, and Cotton Farmer
BRISBANE, Saturday.—Details are now available of the remarkable career of Donald McKenzie, who, after his reputed wife shot herself at One Tree Hill,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A £7,000,000 CROP Queensland's Sugar Output
BRISBANE, Saturdny.—Queensland's sugar crop for 1923 is estimated to yield slightly over £7,000,000. Less than 10 per cent, of the sugar farmers of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmers' Books
The farmer ought to keep a record of all his business operation. He ought to have a simple set of books from which he may gleam at once…
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