Cattle Market
Reporting on Monday's cattle market at the Adelaide Abattoirs, Elden Smith & Co. said:—The number of cattle yarded at the…
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Farming & the land, 1942
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Sheep Prices Rise
Because of a smaller yarding and recent rains sheep prices were generally [?] higher at the Abattoirs market in Adelaide on Wednesday…
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The following letter has been received by the Australian Wool Growers' Council from the Commonwealth Jute [?]: "Although stocks of woolpacks held in…
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Because of the heavy increase in the cost of production, the British Government may be asked next month to increase the present average price of slightly more than 13d a 1b paid for Australian wool clip…
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Wild dogs have cursed Arabury Station for decades, destroying sheep in hundred every year. They have but little longer to enjoy the favored diet to which…
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The secretary of the Pastoralists Association of West Darling, Mr. C. Sinclair Wood, advises that in connection with the request addressed by the Australian Woolgrowers' Council for an expression of opinion…
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ADELAIDE, Monday.—A freight train, consisting of trucks and sheep vans was derailed on the Broken Hill line near Paratoo…
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For having unclean premises, Walter Stewart McKenzie, dairyman, of 233 Pell Street, was fined £5 with 8/costs in the Police Court today…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Commenting on the decision of the Minister for Commerce to lift restrictions on the export of certain classes of meat to…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The statement by an officer of the Department of Supply that ample stocks of butter and cheese are available was…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—Because of manpower problems, New South Wales primary production was in a tragically serious state, declared the general…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.— Under certain conditions, seasonal leave for the sow[?]g of crops is to be granted to personal of the Australian…
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[?]ter Smith and Co. report the Adelaide rates on Monday as follows: [?] shortest supply of cattle since June last year was yarded at the Abattoirs…
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LONDON, May 7.—Bread ration cards distributed throughout Eire entitle each person to 7oz. a day. Bread queues, now being seen in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Blowfly Station Management As a Factor in Control
In seasons when the blowfly is bad the cast incurred by the average grazier in combating flyestrike has occu[?]estunated at £35 per thousand…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →32,000 Head of Cattle Relieving Beef Shortage From Western Australia
Thirty-two thousand head of cattle are on the move from the Kimberley Ranges in north West Australia, 13,000 going south and 20,000 east. In one case the…
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Under certain condition, seasonal leave for the sowing of craps is to be granted to personnel of the Australian Military Forces drawn from rural…
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SCANBERRA, Monday.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) is interested in a suggestion that wheat can be used in producer gas units…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →110,000 Sheep for 2/ BRISBANE
TEN thousand ewes have been sold for 2/- iii the Aramac (North Queensland) district because of the drought…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Government has secured consent of Mr. Justice W. F. L. Owen, of N.S.W. Supreme Court, to act as chairman of…
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