Butter Fat Tests
NOWRA.--The butter fat competition in connection with the Shoalhaven Agricultural Society resulted as follows:--Mature cows, 24 hours' test:…
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Cattle. Downward Tendency
Cattle Values showed a downward tendency. The yarding totalled 2,990 head. All sorts were 'represented, but the bulk were only fair to medium quality. All the usual buyers were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Unchanged
There was no change in the wheat position locally yesterday. Litte or no business was reported. Farmers were not selling, while shippers and millers were very cautious…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →The Farmers' Sheep. The Polwarth Breed Increasing Popularity in Australia
The Polwarth breed of sheep is becoming popular among Victorian breeders, principally because it is able to withstand the frequent dry ape[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Agents' Reports
The Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., report:- For our sale on February 16 we brought forward our most attractive catalogue of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Albury Wool Sales
At the Albury wool sales on February 10, there was a very firm market. The Albury brokers, Younghusband, Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., and Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Grain…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Duty on Butter. Proposed Conference
At a largely attended meeting of farmers from all parts of tho Tweed and Brunswick district, held at Mur-willumbah (N.S.W.) last week, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ticky Sheep Drover Fined £25
WARIALDA.--At the local Police Court, before Mr. N. C. Nott, P.M., S. Stanley, drover, was charged with having travelled 2500 tick-lnfested sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Crop Rotation Sudan Grass or Millet Effect on Wheat Yield
Experiments to ascertain the effect upon the subsequent wheat crop of using Sudan grass and Japanese millet as summer fodders, in comparison…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Melbourne Wheat. Melbourne
Wheat, dull, buyers not operating, sellers holding off, 5/1 to 5/1¼; flour, quiet, £13, cash 5/ concession; bran, short supply, firm, £6/15/; pollard, strong demand, £7/10/…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →General Markets Wheat Market Few Sales at 4/5½ to Farmers
No movement is reported in the European wheat market and there is no business in Australian wheat. There is so much world wheat afloat that buyers can secure what…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Butter Minister Replies Quality Defended
The recent statement of Mr. Manning, M.P. criticising the quality of Australian butter and apples exported from the Commonwealth, was referred…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wheat Overseas. London, February 14
Cargo wheat was very quiet to-day, and quotations were unchanged, but the market had an easier tendency. Parcels were inactive, and values were also…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Crop Trials Experiments with New Varieties at Cooma Heavy Yields at Brobenah
The results of the wheat variety trials at the Cowra (N.S.W.) experiment farm show some very satisfactory results, and have brought into…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Commonwealth Wool & Produce Co., Ltd
The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Company, Limited offered a very good selection of wools, drawn chiefly from the later shearing districts. The clips on the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool Tops. Albury Mills Busy
Wool tops from the Albury (N.S.W.) Woollen, Mils are present in extraordinary demand, and orders are coming in from the various…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat and Chaff Prepared for Emergency
Bobbie: "Mamma, supposing one clay I happened to be sailing on the ocean in a ship, and, an awful big storm came on, and the ship turned over, and I was upset in the water,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Dairying and Pig Rearing. Guernsey Cattle The Annual Fair and Sale at Maitland Show Competition From the Principal Herds
No fewer than fifty-three head of cattle of various ages and each sex have been entered for the annual fair and sale of the [?] Cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Stock Diseases Pleuro in Cattle Last Month's Report
In a report on the diseases that occurred among stock in New South Wales during January, the chief voter[?]nary surgeon (Mr, M, Henry) said…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Too Many Sheep Above Safety Line Seasonal Risks
The State, according to the Government Statistician's revised estimates, is now carrying close up to 55,000,000 sheep. The announcement had been…
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