Trade War in Prices Forbacon Butter Market Firmer Fruit Popular
Without exception distributing companies yesterday out the official rates for bacon. All are engaged in a war for trade. Local curegs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming & the land, 1932
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40,000,000 Bushels of Vic. Wheat Melbourne
THE agricultural superintendent, Mr. H. A. Mullett, said to-day that he would be surprised if the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Prices No Fear of Slump London, January 6
"Wool prices to-day were on reasonable bases, and disclosed no fear of a severe drop as in recent years," said Mr. Henry Ayrton, president,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Rye. Hybrid Produced. Useful Possibilities. London, Jan. 6
Sir Rowland Biffen, Professor of Agricultural Botany at Cambridge University, has succeeded in producing a number of fertile crosses between wheat and rye, which, it is…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dalmatic's Dash Win for Warwick Farm Horse
Dalmatic, winner of the Warwick January Handicap, is trained at that course by N. Dewsbury for Messrs. T. and A. Shiels, who are well known in the dairying…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farmers and Settlers' Cooperative Insurance. Offer of Share Purchase
United Acceptance and Finance Proprietary Co., Ltd, has made an offer to shareholders to purchase the shares of Farmers and Settlers' Co-operative Insurance Company, Ltd., the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stores for Needy Farmers. Minister's Explanation
Referring to a complaint from the Barellan branch of the Wheatgrowers' Association, published in this column last Saturday, regarding supplies of stores to necessitous farmers, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →North Coast Dairying. Further Concentration Suggested
CASINO, Wednesday.—Mr. Patrick Grant, general president of the Primary Producers' Union, has advocated that one of the major objectives upon which dairymen should…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral Notes Caterpillar Plagues
PLAGUES of grubs and caterpillars liavc made their appearance in various parts of Australia during the past few weeks. In the Terang district, Victoria, they have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Plentiful Supply
There were 1889 cattle and calves penned at Honicbush yesterday, Shorthorns, Hereforcls and Black Polls being well distributed. There was a large attendance of buyers, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Macaroni Wheat May Be Useful Crop New Export Trade
IN view of the steady increase of Australian consumption of macaroni, spaghetti and vermicelli, some recent inquiries made in America by Mr. S. L…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Remote Kimberley Cattle Outpost
THIS LONG DONKEY TEAM has just arrived at Margaret Downs station (North-western W.A.) with stores from Derby. Mr. Max Heriry, N.S.W. Chief Veterinary Surgeon, on his recent tour of the Kimberleys, secured this picture, and the two…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Good Wheat Crops Despite Untimely Rains Late-sown Areas Were Favoured End-of-Year Outlook in All 'Parts of the Wheat Belt
REPORTS received by the Agricultural Department from its instructors in the wheat districts show that the loss caused by heavy rains in December has been fairly heavy, but that crops on the whole have turned out fairly satisfactory, even in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local Wheat Market Firm
Wheat buyers were unable to obtain sufficient quantities in the local market to-day. In the country farmers offered little to 2s 8d a bushel, equivalent to 3s 3d ex…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Stocks in Elevators
The total quantity of wheat received at New South Wales Government grain elevators for the 1931-32 season to January 6 was 22,409,000 bushels, of which 2,423,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Record Butter Yields in N.Z.
WHAT is probably a record for any herd in the Southern Hemisphere was created last season by the cows on test in the Totara herd of pedigree…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Record Wheat Receivals. Finley's Claim
FINLEY.—Figures, which must constitute a record for any one station in Australia for the receival and despatch of wheat, were made at the Finley station on Monday, when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Market Steady Holidays Impart Quiet Tone (By Our Special Wheat Market Correspondent)
WEDNESDAY. Due to holidays at the week-end, the market has been rather on the quiet side, although a numerate steadiness prevailed. There are some…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Weeds and Cream Avoiding Lowering of Butter Quality
DISCUSSING the lowering of butter quality during the recent spring months as the result of weed taints, a senior dairy instructor of the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wool or Milk Queensland Sheepmen Discouraged
MANY Queensland graziers who formerly went in solely for wool production, have, during the past two years, owing to unsatisfactory prices,…
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