Dairy Country Relief. More Rain Needed. Cream Quality Declines
Last month's rain brought muchneeded relief to most of the dairy country in New South Wales. Reports from dairy instructors in…
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8,508 stories in Sydney's papers · page 43 of 250
Burrinjuck Fears. Grave Shortage of Water. Threat to Crops
Unless substantial rains fall in the Burrinjuck catchment area in the next three weeks, it is almost certain that the Water Conservation and…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Farmers' Desperate Plight. No Fodder for Starving Stock. Upper Murray Areas. Albury
In an urgent appeal to-day to the Albury Relief Committee for fodder for starving stock in bushfire areas, Upper Murray landholders declared that thousands of sheep and cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Escapees From Farm Home Sent to Prison
Crofton Edward Barnes, 17, laborer, who was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions to-day to nine months' imprisonment, for having escaped from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shock for British Farmers London
The refusal of Australia and New Zealand to restrict their mutton and lamb exports came as sin acute…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Farming Slump Women's Fault"
Women were blamed yesterday by the Premier of Ontario (Mr. Mitchell Hepburn) for many of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Record Wheat Crop
With an average of 20.4 bushels an acre, this season's wheat harvest on the north-western slopes has established a record…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales
The London wool sales were continued on Thursday, when 7492 bales were offered, including 825 bales from New South Wales, 1782 from Victoria,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ask Duty on Imported Sheep
The Australian Society of Breeders of British Sheep has decided to press for a duty of £2 a head on all sheep imported into Australia if unaccompanied by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle And Rams From Famous Studs
Eight thousands pounds' worth of blue-blooded bulls, heifers, and rams from famous studs in England and Scotland arrived by the Pakeha this week…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
The State Marketing Bureau (Department of Agriculture) advises as follows regarding local and overseas wheat values and sales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →1,000Lb Commercial Butter. Jersey Cow's Feat
The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Reid, advises that Oaklands Mildred, a Jersey cow 5 years and 8 months old, owned by Mr. F. W. Johnston, of 89 Sussex Street, Sydney, has…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Land Page Every Saturday Farmers Switch To Lambs Urged By Low Prices For Wheat
Finding that wheat prices are uneconomic, farmers are switching over to fat-lamb…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Women As 'Saviors of Wool'
Women are hailed as saviors of the wool industry by Sydney traders who know just how they buy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japan Lags In Wool Purchases
Half-yearly returns of wool exports to Japan and of textile imports from Japan disclose that that country is not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool for Oversea Exhibition. Junee
The Junee branch of the Graziers' Association is seeking the co-operation of members so that samples of fleece wool may be sent to the San Francisco Exhibition…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →King William and Riley To Load Wheat
The British motor ships King William and Riley have been chartered to load wheat for the United Kingdom, opt. East…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land Wool Trade. Market Recovers. Sydney Turnover
At the opening Sydney wool sales on Tuesday the market was unchanged at Brisbane closing levels. On that basis the better class merinos were par to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Waging War with Poppies Opium Fights On The Side Of Japan Spreading as far as the eye can see across the warm semi-tropical plains and foothills of inland China, a new crop of that beautiful flower from which opium is derived is slowly ripening in the hot sun. In undulating waves the poppies bend to the light breeze, their bright colors, of red, yellow, white and soft brown completing a design like an old-fashioned patchwork quilt over the landscape. Opium, that soul-destroying scourge of China, seems likely to be one of the decisive factors in the war between China and Japan
SOFAR, income from traffic in this drug has been an important factor in the support of both sides; Japan now holds an edge…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Meat for Britain. Dominions Oppose Restriction. Home Farmers' Alarm. LONDON, Feb. 3
British farmers are disappointed at the refusal of Australia and New Zealand to accept a scheme for the percentage reduction of mutton and lamb…
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