Cattle Sink Put. Wingham
The punt at Wingham was sunk on Friday morning by a mob of cattle, which got out of hand and rushed on to it. The cattle, numbering 37, had passed through Wingham stock…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farming & the land, 1927
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Searching for a Sheep Brand
EXPERIMENTS are still being conducted with a view to finding a sheep-branding substance that will not injure wool. from the manufacturer's point of view. Ten fleeces. branded with various substances…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Wheat Loading. Garthpool Chartered
Freight rates for February and March are firm around late quotations. A Maru steamer was able to obtain 45/- a ton for April loading,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Weaker
The local wheat market was a shade easier yesterday to the extent of a halfpenny to a penny per bushel. Buyers' limits in the country were 4/6 to 4/6½ for bagged wheat,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →"No" on Wheat Pool
JUNEE.--The annual meeting of the Junee Formers and Settlers' Association unanimously decided to vote "No" in the ballot on the question of a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wheat Standard. Melbourne
The "fair average quality" weight of wheat for the season 1926-27 was fixed to-day at 61½lb per bushel…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →South African Wool Marketing
South African wool has been getting a good deal of advertisement recently as a result, of the controversy over the aliened deterioration of quality in Australian clips. But it will be a long time before…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →On the Land. Pastoral Problems. Conference at Wilcannia
A conference of delegates of pastures protection boards of the Western Division, and of other pastoralists, met at Wilcannia at the request of the Pastoralists' Association of…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Queensland Pastoral Areas Far-reaching Inquiry. Brisbane
The appointment of a Land Settlement Advisory Board to supersede the departmental wool committee created some time ago, and to inquire into, and take evidence on many…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat Markets Local Position Easier
The easier position reported to exist in tho overseas wheat markets has caused local shippers to reduce their limits to growers by 1d per bushel. They are now offering 46 at…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Sales. High-class Clips Active Competition
Attractive clips were submitted to auction at the continuation of the wool sales at the Royal Exchange yesterday. The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative G. and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Move in Wool Values Still Upward
Wool sale proceedings recently have been of the most animated description. Every section of buyers is participating in the competition, and the "hardening tendency" has turned into a definite rise of anything from 5 to 10 per cent. The market has been officially described as "excited," and the word is no exaggeration, for the bidding has been all that.—By "Warp." WITH almost ideal conditions from the selling…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Wheat Prices Drop Big Shipments Afloat Chicago
The weakness in Liverpool wheat quotations is incidental to the world's shipments of 21,818,000 bushels, which are nearly 3,000,000 bushels in excess…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Death Trap to Be Removed? Warwick Farm Peril "Overhead Bridge"
WHEN Liverpool Council decided last night to ask the Rialway Commissioners to furnish a full report regarding the accident at…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Agricultural Board. Harvest and Farm Hands' Award
The following is the Agricultural Board's Award to govern conditions of employment in the rural industry in New South Wales:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Straight Australian Farmers and Workers' Compensation
IN introducing a short amending bill to exempt share farmers families from the operations of the Workers' Compensation Act, the N.S.W. Minister for Labor and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Shooting Affray. Farmer's Death. Perth
On Saturday afternoon last G. H. Mead, a middle-aged farmer, had an argument with an Italian employed on an adjoining farm at Wogarl, a small township on the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Prices Too Low Dairying Industry Murwillumbah
Representatives of Murwillumbah Chamber of Commerce and the Primary Producers' Union met in conference at Murwillumbah last night…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Increased Duty Dairy Produce Claim
In pursuance of the resolution passed at the recent conference of dairy factory representatives! and at which the matter of the heavy importations…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Farm Lands Sales
NARRANDERA,--Messrs, Coughion Bros., who recently acquired the greater part of the Kerabury Station, intend to throw open 30,000 acres for…
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