Ng Compulsory Cut of Sheep Flocks
CAMBERRA,—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) said that the Government had no intention whatever of compulsorily reducing flocks…
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Farming & the land, 1942
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Wool Yield Doubled in South Africa
R. P. Hannam, writing in the "South African Merino Breeders' Journal," states that the weight of wool shorn per sheep in South Africa at present [?] be…
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Under the new Manpower Resolutions the Manpower Directorate will be able to prevent rural workers from changing their employment unless to go to some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Manpower Factory Committees Set Up
In every butlers factory [?] Australia a "dairy factory manpower committee" will be established forthwith, and before the end of September the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Farm Prices New York, September 8
The "Herald's Tribune's" Washington correspondent states that legislation specifically authorising Mr. Roosvelt to establish stabilisation for all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Daffodils for Wheat Sheaf Connections
MELBOURNE. — Winning owner, trainer and jockey in the Daffodil Handicap at Moonee Valley today were presented with three huge bunches of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Intention of Rationing Butter
SYDNEY.— An emphatic denial that it was intended to ration butter was given today by the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pay Fixed for Women Wool Classers
MELBOURNE.—Rates of pay for women employed as wool classers were fixed in a judgment announced by the Women's Employment Board…
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Yesterday was a busy day at the Picton Saleyards. In the morning a big flock of sheep was entrained. In the afternoon these was a horse sale and…
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CANBERRA.—The Parliamentary committee on rural industries has reported that the drain on manpower on dairy farms has been excessive…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Insure Your Wool Sheep's Back to Store
Shorn wool is accumulating at station properties and country towns because of shoringe of carriers to take it to rail and shortage of trucks to…
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Elder Smith and Co.'s Adelaide report of Monday's sale reads. The yarding of cattle submitted to-day was again a very heavy one, 1770…
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Elder, South and Co. report that at the sheep sales in Adelaide on Wednesday 10,000 sheep were disposed of. The sale opened better, firming later…
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Wednesday was a busy day at the Picton Saleyards at Broken Hill. In the morning a big flock of sheep was entrained. In the afternoon there was a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →War Damage to Wool
Soon after the outbreak of war, the Australian Woolgrowers' Council requested the Commonwealth Government to provide for the insurance of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Care of Stored Wool
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research makes practical suggestions to pre[?]erve soll from the depared[?] of moths and other insects. If it is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Percentage of Choicest Grade Butter Packed in This State
Mr. O. C. Balthausen, Chief of the Division of Dairying of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture state that of the butter graded by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Brown Vegetable Weevil Menace to Crops
The Chief Entomologist of the Department of Agriculture reminds vegetable growers to be on the lookout for the brown vegetable weevil or Elephant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increase in Butter and Cheese Canberra, September 22
In the House of Representatives to-day the Minister for Commerce. Mr. Scully, said the possibility of an increase in the price of butter and cheese…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Waste Paper Wool Press Badly Needed
Owing to delay in delivery of ba[?] and bales, no paper was dispatched yesterday. Quite a lot of paper was packed but…
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