Our Dairying Industry and Britain's Needs
Mr. Francis in the House of Representatives recently said I ask the Minister for Commerce whether it is a fact that Great Britain has asked Australia…
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Farming & the land, 1942
392 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 11 of 20
Women Gather Fruit Crops, But Dislike Back Breaking Job Of Digging Onions
ONIONS, which already have a tendency to be scarce, are likely to be drastically short in the future. The labor shortage in Geelong, one of the principal onion-growing centres, will reduce the year's crop very greatly. Women, who worked heroically to gather fruit crops, are…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Australian Tobacco Crop Improves
SYDNEY.—Compared with about 5,000,000 lbs. from the season just completed, next year's Australian tobacco crop is expected to yield…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Sales
Prime sheep were again scarce at the Adelaide Abattoirs market on Wednesday. The total yarding of 7400 sheep was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelaide Cattle Market
Elder Smith aand Co.'s Adelaide report of June 22 says. The supply of cattle yarded today was considerably heavier than the…
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The Australian Woolgrowers' Council adopted a unanimous interim report [?]mitted by the Post War Wool Marketing Committee which has been studying the…
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CANBERRA.—It was announced by the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) today that an important international wheat agreement. covering the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Pastoral Industry Protest About Govt Policies Decided Without the Advice of Experts
SERIOUS concern at the growing practice of Government Departments in formulating policies vital[?] concerning the pastoral industry without seeking the help and advice of the elected leaders of the industry[?] was expressed at the 59th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat for Sheep
Wheat, which is now available at a reduced price for stock feeding purposes, is a useful feed for sheep. Fattening lambs and lambing ewes, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Adelaide Cattle Market
Elder. Smith and Co. Ltd's report from Adelaide on July 29 reads: 1,490 cattle were submitted in today's Abattoirs market, approximately 75 per…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drop in Wool Appraised
A total of 245,550 bales of wool were appraised in Adelaide during the season which closed on Wednesday compared with 377,667 bales in the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Missing Plane Was Found By Cattle Station Owner
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA.—The wreckage of the Guinea Airways' plane which had been missing since April 21, and was reported found with no survivors, was discovered by Mr. Harry Hardy (63), owner of Annaburoo cattle station, about 120 miles south-west of Darwin—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Local Lad's Daring In Cattle Truck Ride
ORANGE.—A 16-year-old Assyrian boy who wanted to go to Sydney travelled in a waggon full of cattle 200 miles from Broken Hill to Orange. Except for signs of weariness, and animal hairs on his clothes, he appeared unaffected by his trip. But police said he was glad to get bed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rationalisation Of The Wool Industry
AT the meeting of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council Mr. J. P. Abbott, M.H.R., was unanimously reappointed chairman of the Council, and Mr. D. T. Boyd vice-chairman. The Council decided that in any proposals for the rationalisation of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Cattle Market
Elder. Smith and Co. Ltd's Adelaide report dated July 6. says: The heaviest supply of cattle for a long time post was submitted at the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vaccine for Sheep Important Contribution by Science
The sheep owners of Australia one more than they generally realise to the painstaking and thorough work carried out by owners of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, and scientific members of the staffs of the several Stale Departments of Agriculture the Veterinary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying Survey Sydney. July 9
With a view to increasing production in the Commonwealth more than 90,000 farmers are being asked this week to prepare statistical returns on which a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Will Be Told What to Grow
SYDNEY.—Farmers will be told what crops to grow under the Federal Government's new food production plan, said Commerce…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plenty of Butter
CANBERRA, — The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) stated yesterday that there were adequate supplies of butter for civilian needs all…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mighty Cattle Trek
SYDNEY.—The greatest movement of cattle in Australian history in the Northern Territory is proceeding successfully, revealed the…
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