Sydney Wool Sales a Record for Comebacks Firm Demand
The first wool sales in Sydney in the New Year were made at more satisfactory prices than were obtained at the closing sales of 1927, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1928
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Heavy Manuring. Profitable Wheat and Lambs. Parkes and Harden Examples
W. T. Nixon writes advocating the heavier use of superphosphates for wheat growing. He states that on the property of Mr. G. F. Mill,…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →City Gossip Wool Finance State's Export Trade Exports from N.S.W.
Wool valued at £3,742,401 was exported from New South Wales during December last. The amount compares with £3,413,798 worth, sent from this…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Voluntary Wheat Pool To Close for Remainder of Season Contract Pool for Next Harvest
The present season has been a critical one for the wheal industry of New South Wales. Earlier in the season wheat'growers in every part of the State feared failure. When the rain came the situation was saved for many, but in a number of districts there has been either…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Extending the Wheat Area Remarkable Success near Goulburn 'Unsuitable" Land Yields Nine Bags to the Acre
It is doubtful whether many of those persons present during the first week of 1928 at a harvesting demonstration that was held on the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Land and the Producer Vigorous All-round Demand Forces Wool Values Up And Prices Still Show a Strong Hardening Tendency
The Sydney wool market is all buoyancy. A further improvement in selling conditions developed this week. Prices rose a full 5 per cent. above the December closing level, and are now at the best point of the season. The trend is still…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Challenge and Anniversary Candidates Seen Out at Warwick Farm Royal Tune Improves His Challenge Stakes' Chances
Challenge Stakes and Anniversary Handicap candidates seen out at Warwick Farm on Saturday did not greatly enhance their prospects so far as future attractions are concerned. Dolomite, Bravado, and Royal Tune are engaged in one or other of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →At Warwick Farm
Considerations other than the actual prize money and the betting market had something to do with the size of the field in last Saturday's January…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →[?]Tennis Farmers Taboo
Dunlop, a former Davis Cup [?] in an interview in Melbourne [?]eek, selected a Davis Cup team, [?], in his opinion, should represent…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Queensland Farm Research
Various activities in agricultural research, etc., hitherto divided amongst the Department of Agriculture, the University, and the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Should Retain Control. Pool Protection for Growers, Says Mr. Trethowan
"It in to be deplored in a season of scarcity like the present that the farmer should allow the control of the wheat marketing to pans out of his own hands as he has done," stated the Hon. A. K. Trcthowan, M'.L.C., in the course of an interview. "As a result, the price of wheat has been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flocks and Herds Foals and Calves Losses on the Farm Feeding and Weaning
On some farms the losses in foals and calves are much higher than they should be if reasonable care were exercised. To be a successful farmer a…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fur Farms The Value the Rabbit Government Inquiry
The N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) has under consideration the appointment of a committee of inquiry into the possibilities…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fat Lamb Raising a Profitable Branch of Mixed Farming Queensland Pastures and Conditions
Many farmers in Queensland and New South Wales are evincing a keen interest in the practicability of adding the raising of fat lambs for markets…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairying and Pig Rearing Dairying Outlook Increased Production Benefit of the Rain
Showery weather was general throughout the dairying districts of New South Wales during December, except on the far south coast. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Glen Innes Farm Aryshire Stud Herd Removed from Grafton
Included in the alterations to be made at the Glen Innes (N.S.W.) experiment farm, is the building up of a big dairy herd of Ayshires. In…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Dairying Industry Factory Reports Bellinger River
Butter manufactured by the Bellinger River Co-operative Butter and lisdon Society in November totalled [?], of which [?] was chole[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Radio Notes Wireless on the Farm the Dealer's Set
"I am sending a rdio set out to your place, Mr. Broadacres, on trial," said a radio trader at Colac, a month or so ago to one of his customers…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Slipshod Finance The Farmer Pays Local Manufactures
In a letter to the Editor, Mr. Paul Cheyne, Secretary of the Australian Manufacturers' Development League, writes:—…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying Industry Fostered by Government Co-operative Effort Needed
The importance of the dairying industry to Australia was illustrated and enforced in the course of a speech delivered at Byron Bay…
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