Wheat Lumping and Wheat Yard Work Award
The following agreement has been entered into between Central Branch, A.W.U., and the wheat handling and shipping firms (represented by Bunge…
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Wheat Again Firmer
Owing to the paucity of offerings in the local wheat market yesterday prices were again firmer. Limits for growers' bagged lots were raised ld a bushel, to 54, ex…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Firm
Largely owing to the fact that sellers were hard to locate, the local wheat market was firm yesterday. Buyers were indicating 5/5 to 5/5½for bagged wheat, January delivery,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat Thieves Active. Wagga
Reports from various districts indicate that wheat thieves are operating at the railway stations, and are also stealing wheat from bags stacked in paddocks. Their plan,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Heavy Loss Anthrax Outbreak 500 Sheep Die
The outbreak of anthrax on Mr. Fielding Jones's station, "Oaklands," Ravensworth, near Singleton, which was exclusively reported in "The Sun"…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Tops Buyers Mark Time
LONDON, December 30.--Very little new business in wool tops has been booked at Bradford, the trade awaiting the re-opening of the wool-selling market in Sydney on…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Seed Selection in the Wheat Country
Seed selection is such an important factor in successful farming that if is surprising to note that many farmers still adhere to varieties that are poor yielders, disease carriers, or both. Yet the field, wheat competitions that are conducted all over the State indicate most convincingly which are the best…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →South Africa. Independent of Australia. Wool Production
"South Africa is determined to get on the world's wool market," said Mr. W. K. Moffat, a Sydney builder who returned on the Euripides on Monday from a 10 months' tour of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the Land Wheat-growing. Review of the Year
Two highly satisfactory and outstanding features are associated with the crop year 1928-29. First, its uniform high quality stamped it…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Review of the Wool Season: What of the Future?
ALTHOUGH the usual "bearing" reports were circulated by those interested in the "in between" season, there was a feeling of optimism, tinged with anxiety, as sales drew near. Unfortunately, the…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Warwick Farm Entries
Entries for the main events at Warwick Farm meeting, to be held on April 12, will close at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, January 14…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Government and Agriculture. Big Scheme to Aid Farmers and Workers in Britain
The British Labor Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Noel Buxton) stated recently that some of the schemes which might be rendered possible by the Land Drainage…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmless Farmers
MR. STUART CHASE, a noted American economist, recently pointed out that large-scale ignited States farms, are no more successful than small farms, and…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Lemon Crop
MANY large-sized lemons appear on the market from time to time, and these never bring good prices, irrespective of scarcity. Lemons should always be picked to size, those packing from 180 to 248 to the…
Continued on Trove, page 46 →Farmer's Plant. to the Editor of the Herald
Sir,—In your Friday's issue appears an attempt by the secretary of the Chamber of Manufactures, Mr. F. L. Edwards, to discredit Mr. Webster's estimate of the cost price of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer Fatally Injured. Perth
When a horse bolted on his farm at Northam, Thomas Murtin was caught in the reins and dragged by a leg across a paddock for about 25 chains. He died in hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmer Killed. Melbourne
Joseph L. Hood, 55, farmer, of North Paywit, was killed when a motor car in which he was riding overturned in Geelong last night. Charles Oxenham, of Corowa (New South…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Riverina Crops
According to Mr. G. C. Bartlett, agricultural instructor for the Riverina portion of the wheat belt, the yields from the western part of his district ore very light. The rainfall for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Hears a £40,000 Radio Story LONDON
"I just heard someone over the wireless asking me to return to Australia Immediately because my bro- ther Peter has found a nugget worth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In South-western Riverina Three Years of Crop Failures
The season's wheat yields from the south-western portion of Riverina were very light, reports the local agricultural instructor, Mr. G. Bartlett…
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