Down on His Chicken Farm
Mr. Oliver Baldwin, son of the British Prime Minister, has taken to poultry raising in England. He has thrown himself into the work and works the farm on scientific lines…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1926
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Farm Produce
A drop of 70/ a ton occurred in the potato market, Brownells being reduced to £17/10 a ton. The Kokiri and Wear brought shipments totalling…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Market Reports. Sussex Street. Dairy Produce
Following on the decision of the local Butter Advisory Committee, the wholesale price of choicest butter was advanced ½d a lb. to 172/8 per cwt…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Produce. Dairy
An improved tone in the egg market was reported by city dairy produce houses yesterday. Supplies had shown a substantial falling-off last week, with the result thnt surplus stocks were…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Heroic Farmer. Loses Life in Effort to Rescue. Wellington (N.z.)
A farm hand. Stanley Richmond, aged 17 years, while bathing in the Ruamahunga River, near T[?] Whlt[?], got into difficulties. His employer. Joseph Ernest Sewell, a soldler…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →On the Land. Tasmanian Crops. Effects of Dry Spell
The fact that Tasmania supplies this State with considerable quantities of potatoes, oats, and peas, and that the extent of these supplies from that Island in large measure governs…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farmers and Their Losses Where Middleman Reaps Consumer Suffers All Eyes on Conference
THE Farmers and Consumers' Conference, as promised by the Premier prior to the State elections, is to be called together shortly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wrecked by Gale Fruit Crops at Orange Bathurst
A gale at Orange has seriously damaged large quantities of fruit, William pears suffering severely. Som growers estimate that half their crops…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rural Interests Settlement and Production General News Potato Crops Tasmanian Failure This State Safe
A decidedly unfavorable report of the forthcoming potato crop in Tasmania, due to dry weather, occasional high winds, and cold snaps, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Pastoral Company
Australian Pastoral Company, in its report for the year ended June 30, 1925, our London correspondent cables, shows a profit of £111,852. The dividend of 10 per cent. absorbs…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Butter Output
The Argyle Central Dairy Co., Ltd., Goulburn, reports having manpfactured for December 44,162[?]b. of butter. Suppliers were paid at the rate of Is 2½d…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter for Export
During the week ended January 16, the Commonwealth graders examined, for export at Sydney, 30,627 boxes of butter, of which 28,315 were salted and 2312 unsalted. They…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Artificial Wool
Sir John Higgins, though he has not been any artificial wool says that the increase in the population of the world is far shead of the production of wool, and the predicts,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Early Harvest Good Wheat Crops "Wagga
Mr. R. M. Blarney, manager of the Murrumbidgee Milling Company at Wagga, states that the wheat harvest in the harvest in the Riverina this year has been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Guernsey Cattle. Forthcoming Fair
The council of the Guernsey Cattle Society of Australasia met on Monday, when Dr. R. M. Kinrose presided. It was decided to accept the offer made…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →North-western Wheat. Proposed Experiment Farm. Departmental Attitude
At the last conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association a motion was submitted on behalf of the Curlewis branch and the Liverpool Plains district council, which, after…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wheat and Flour. Dominion Farmers' Request. Wellington (N.z.)
A conference of Canterbury wheatgrowers, held at Ashburton, decided to ask for a free market for wheat, and an increase of £1 a ton duty on imported flour…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Dull
Reflecting the position oversea, the wheat market locally was somewhat easier yesterday, and buyers again reduced their limit by /1 per bushel, farmers' lots being quoted at…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Byron Bay Butter Byron Bay
The North Coast Company for December manufactured 162 tons of butter, the pay for choice being 1[?] in December. 1923…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Prices. Stabilisation Scheme. Melbourne
Having lasted for more than two days, a meeting of the Australian stabilisation committee established under the Paterson plan for the stabilisation of the butter industry,…
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