Wool Prices for British Home Trade
Wool control authorities in London [?] that raw material supplied to [?] manufacturers for the home [?] trade will continue at the present…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1942
392 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 4 of 20
Wool Qualities Explained by C. H. Blagg
Wool, as the veriest tyro knows, it not all of one quality or variety, and from the coarsest Lincoln to the finest Merino it passes by minute graduations from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dried Fruit Crop Labor Shortage Difficulty
Worth about £3,000,000 annually to Australia and at present of particular importance, the dried fruit industry is seriously threatened because…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Women Working On Farms
SYDNEY, Saturday.— With the manpower shortage becoming a grave problem in rural areas, women are more and more coming to the fore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Outlook
Because of the relief given to a fair area of woolgrowing country as a result of recent light to moderate rams fat stock prices have recovered to a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Sales
Elder. Smith and Co. Ltd. reporting on Wednesday's sheep sales at the Adelaide abattoirs said. The supply of sheep yarded to-day was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Tick Campaign Opposition Breaks Down
The cattle dipping campaign in the Grafton-Maclean quarantine area has now got into full swing, and there is a general feeling that organised…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sales of Wool Outside United Kingdom Statement by Wool Committee
The Pastoralists' Association of West Darling has received the following statement from the Central Wool Committee:— The purchase by the Government of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bale of Wool for Red Cross
Some time ago Mrs. Barraclough, of Marrapina, started to collect fleeces to fill a bale to sell for the Red Cross Mrs. Baraclough said she began "wool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.s.w. Dairy Herds Faced with Extinction
Never has the plight of the dairying industry in New South Wales been comparable with the present threat of extinction facing some of the herds…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Cattle Fodder
Britain's farmers are obtaining excellent results with the fodder now being produced by the new caustic soda straw-pulping process on over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storage And Appraisement Of Wool; Decisions
A CONFERENCE was held in Melbourne on Wednesday, February 11[?] consisting of representatives from all States of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council, the Australian Wool Producers' Federation, and the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Adelaide Sheep and Lamb Market
Elder. Smith and Co. Ltd. reporting from Adelaide on Wednesday's market said:—The supply of sheep yarded today was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Storage and Appraisement of Wool Conference of Wool Association
A conference was held at Melbourne, on Wednesday 11, consisting of representatives from all States of the Australian Woolgrowers' Council, the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Effective Drug Nodule Worm Of Sheep
Phenothiazine is the only drug known to be effective against the nodule worm when given us a drench. It is scarce and expensive and the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Seed Crop Sets Up Record in 1941
Great Britain's extensive sugar beet [?] crop has been harvested this year entirely from seed grown at home. Before the war, almost half of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Market
Elder, Smith and Co's report of the cattle market at the Adelaide Abattoirs on Monday said:—Although the supply of cattle yarded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Adelaide Sheep Market
At the sheep sales in Adelaide on Wednesday, operations began quietly, but generally firm In a brief report this was stated by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Labor Shortage in Pastoral Industry
THERE has been a fifty per cent, reduction in the amount of labor available for station hand jobs. The shortage is considered to be so serious that if it becomes worse it will be impossible to maintain the present stock numbers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Losses From Sheep Blowfly Could Be Reduced by 80 per cent
If Australia's sheep and wool industry is to overcome or avoid the dangers which beset it, no factor which tends to lower efficiency or increase cost must be…
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