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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 228 words
  3. ON THE LAND. FARM AND STATION.

    With reference to our recent comment upon the splendid results for the year achieved by Mr. Draper's herd of dairy cows at Inverell. Mr. H. C. Stenning writes, stating that the ...

    Article : 1,344 words
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  5. SHORTAGE OF TRUCKS.

    A correspondent writes — Extraordinary scenes arising from [?]he shortage of trucks— and involving continuous futility of effort on the part of producers, together with serious ...

    Article : 955 words
  6. THE BUTTER BUSINESS.

    Messrs. Foley Bros., Ltd., write:—Re your report of Mr. Meares's remarks at Wingham la[?]enting the loss of those foolish farmers in New Zealand who do not know how to ...

    Article : 165 words
  7. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES.

    JERILDERIE.—The annual meeting of the Riverina P. and A. Society was held on Saturday. The balance-sheet showed a loss of £30 on the year's transactions. The ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. COLD STORAGE OF FRUIT.

    BRISBANE.—Experiments conducted by the Department of Agriculture in the keeping qualities of fruit under cold storage conditions are turning out a success. On Monday ...

    Article : 128 words
  9. THE WOOL CLIP.

    BOURKE.—On Friday last two Toorale station teams brought the last of the station's clip to Bourke. Toorale station cut nearly 3000 bales of wool this year, and some of ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. EXPERIMENTS WITH POTATOES.

    HOBART.—During the visit to Tasmania of the Scottish Farming Commission, one of the members. Dr. Wilson, offered to supply the Director of Agriculture with a number of ...

    Article : 127 words
  11. WARRAH FARMS.

    MURRURUNDI.—The land board sat on Tuesday to deal with the Warrah farms. The following withdrawals were allowed, and a fine of £5 was imposed in each case: —F. A. ...

    Article : 136 words
  12. F.A.Q. STANDARD.

    DUBBO.—At a meeting of the Dubbo branch of the F. and S. Association, a discussion followed the reading of a letter from the Sydney Chamber of Commerce, asking for samples ...

    Article : 136 words
  13. DEFROSTING FROZEN MEAT.

    Messrs. Roberts and Rayson, representing the Macmeikan Defrosting Co. Proprietary, Ltd., of Melbourne, have been endeavouring to interest the meat interests here in their ...

    Article : 238 words
  14. FROZEN MEAT.

    A very fair amount of progress has been made in 1911. I think, in the campaign for opening up Continental markets for frozen meat and butter from Argentina and ...

    Article : 499 words
  15. RURAL WORKERS' CLAIMS.

    JERILDERIE.—At a special meeting of the Farmers' Association on Saturday resolutions were passed to make a thorough canvass of the district amongst all rural employers for ...

    Article : 61 words
  16. SHORTAGE OF TRUCKS.

    YOUNG.—Wheat continues to pour in to the town and outlying sidings, and complaints are loud in regard to the shortage of trucks. Already there are huge stacks at the town ...

    Article : 59 words
  17. CANE CROPS.

    BRISBANE.—The tonnage of cane crushed in the Bundaberg district during the season just closed was 333,200 tons, being 63,000 tons short of last year's crop. The shortage was ...

    Article : 53 words
  18. A.W.U. CONFERENCE.

    The Australian Workers' Union conference, which is practically a parliament of 50,000 employees in the pastoral industry, opens to-day at the Trades Hall. ...

    Article : 649 words
  19. MEETINGS OF FARMERS.

    YOUNG.—At the last meeting of the Fruitgrowers' Union a discussion took place in regard to establishing some form of factory to absorb the surplus fruit from the district ...

    Article : 128 words
  20. CONDEMNED POTATOES.

    BRISBANE. —During the past few weeks Mr. E. Williams, of Cairns, inspector under the Diseases in Plants Act, has been obliged to condemn a large number of potatoes which ...

    Article : 69 words
  21. EXPORT OF TIMBER.

    Some further shipments of New South Wales timber have lately arrived, about 25,000 packages in three steamers. These shipments were made by the British Australasian ...

    Article : 288 words
  22. DISTRICT ITEMS.

    BLACKTOWN.—Vineyards are greatly in need of a heavy fall of rain. Some varieties of grapes are colouring, but the berries do not average the size of last season's crop. ...

    Article : 906 words
  23. RURAL LABOUR.

    WAGGA.—At a meeting of the Farmers and Sottlers' Association an interesting suggestion was made by Mr. T. Strout (the president) regarding the position of free labourers. ...

    Article : 195 words
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