Wheat Overseas Chicago Options Move Up Chicago, January 2
Predictions or hard winter weather caused prices of wheat options to turn higher, March closing at 4s 10a and May at 4s 11½d a bushel…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1929
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On the Land. Wheat Belt Conditions. a Dry December
The absence of rain during the month just closed has been welcomed by most wheat-growers. The harvesting operations have been completed under most favourable conditions,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Optimism and Pessimism Outlook for 1929 Wheat Shipments at Newcastle Newcastle
"THERE is un important difference between the new near outlook for 1929 as compared with 1928; that is while a year ago business was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Who Bagged Those Cockerels? Poultry Farmer on Warpath in Pyjamas "Like Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson"
Twelve cockerels were found in a bag—a bag in which someone had thoughtfully cut sundry portholes. The discovery was made between 3.30. and 4 a.m. Two other bags with similar facilities for ventilation were found not far away. One was empty, and the other was occupied by a white leghorn…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Produce. Dairy
Trade was dull among city dairy produce houses yesterday, and an after-holiday tone was in evidence. In all lines there was a noticeable lack of activity, owing primarily…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Dry Weather Now Causing State-wide Anxiety Rain Urgently Needed for Fallowing and Maize Crops
Rain is badly needed in all parts of the State, and the monthly reports of agricultural instructors emphasise the severity of the period that farmers and graziers are now passing through. While they draw attention to the extraordinarily good wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Enoggera Sales An Easier Market for Sheep and Cattle
At the Enoggera (Brisbane) livestock market yesterday (Thursday) 8,300 sheep were penned, the majority being of good quality. There was a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Pink Eye" a Summer Disease of Sheep and Cattle"
Stockowners are advised to take precautions against ophthalmia, or "pink eye"—a disease that causes an inflammation of the eyes and adjacent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Butter
The following cable, dated January 1, has been received by the A.P.W.G. F.P., Ltd., from their London office, the Overseas Farmers' Co-operative…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Butter Export Trade
During the week ended December 29 the Commomvealth graders examined at Sydney for export 1782 boxes of butter, which included 1674 boxes of salted and 108 boxes of unsalted…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Guernsey Cattle Society
At a council meeting of the Guernsey Cattle Society of Australasia, at which Dr. R. M. Kinross presided, approval was given to the formation of a branch of the society in…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat In
Practically all the wheat of the State has been harvested, and in most districts excellent harvesting: weather has prevailed. A record has been made…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Monday s Homebush. CATTLE
Although there was an extra law yarding of cattle prices for Koort useful beef remained unchanged, but values for plain and inferior grades had a tendency to weaken: Altogether…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sheep Perish in Flames
The fire in the Barrallier district is still raging, though yesterday the wind dropped and the flames did not travel so rapidly as during the past few days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The World's Wheat. Estimate of This Year's Crop
The United States Department of Agriculture estimates that the world's wheat crop, excluding Russia and China, will be 11,700,000,000-bush.,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wool Outlook
Winchcombe, Car[?]on, Ltd., reports:—At this stage of [?] wool season, uncertainty regarding the future of [?] sometimes exists. This year, however, pessi[?][?] has not made its appearance. It certaintly has…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat Stocks in Elevators
Wheat stocks in the country in Government grain elevators on January 3 aggregated 14,188,000 bushels, and there were 337,000 bushels of non-silo wheat at the terminal,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The Wool World. Seasons Come and Go. Vagaries of N.S.W. Climate. Review of 1928 Pastoral Conditions
When "Banjo" Paterson sang of "the seasons that come and go," he certainly knew his New South Wales. For in this State they come and go with a vengeance-droughts following hard on the heels of flush seasons, floods breaking the droughts and ushering in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Liens and Mortgages Large Amounts Raised on Growing Crops and Wool
Judging by the record of Hens on crops and wool obtained during the year 1928, the farmers and pastoralists of New South Wales have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Live-stock Markets Heavy Supplies of Sheep and Cattle at the Last Sale of the Year at the Homebush (Sydney) Market on Monday—new Cattle Pens Prove a Great Acquisition
At the sale at Homebush (Sydney) on Monday was the first for a week, and owing to there being no sale again until Monday next, heavy supplies of…
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