Drought Ravages Crops
Sydney, November 16 —The agricultural position throughout the State is not very bright. Doctor S.J.Hynes. Chief of the Division of…
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Farming & the land, 1944
352 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 16 of 18
Wool Payments
ADELAIDE. — Proceeds from the fifth Adelaide wool appraisement completed on November 6—£490,813 —was made available from today…
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SYDNEY.—Variations in the courses taken by liquids when swallowed by the sheep are discussed in Bulletin 180, just issued by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. The stomach of a sheep has four compartments—the paunch or…
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SYDNEY.—Investigations into reasons why blowflies are attracted to living sheep are described in Bulletin 181, just issued by the Council…
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GRAFTON.—Damage estimated at £100,000 was caused by a fire which swept nineteen banana plantations at Woolgoolga…
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JAMESTOWN.—Residents are indignant at the neglect of the local board of health in not removing a dead sheep from the water reserve in…
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Investigations into reasons why blowflies are attracted to living sheep ate described in Bulletin 181, just issued by the Council for Scientific and Industrial…
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A well-known shearer, Bob Sawallash, 57, of Freemantle (W.A.), is out to establish an Australian record. Next season he is confident that he…
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SYDNEY.—The wheat yield for New South Wales this year would be only 17,000,000 bushels, and not 20,000,000 as estimated a few weeks…
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Canberra.—With only ten per cent, of Australian wool now used in local manufacture, the Government is considering proposals for the diversion of wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Desperate Effort to Save Starving Sheep Lorries Take Over From Drover
Recently Green Bros. received an S.O.S. from Wongamanna Station, Wanaaring. The manager wanted trucks to the rescue immediately to take 3,000 sheep from Drover Blacker about 66 miles away on the WilcannioâWanaaring road and rush…
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Umbenimberka water must be turned off—it once! It is too dangerous—too putrid. Dead and dying sheep are polluting the water that is in short and dwindling supply…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lt. J. G. Cropley for Local Air Service
Lieutenant J. G. Cropley arrived from Adelaide on Saturday. He has been released from the AIF to assist Mr. E. H. Cropley, who recently…
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LONDON, November 26.—Farmer Harris, of the village of Benworth, in Hampshire, lost a cow.. She was browning in a pasture one minute, and the next minute she had vanished. Presently loud "moos" led Farmer…
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Sydney, November 27.—The death occurred at his home at Edgeeliff yesterday of Mr. J. B. Cramsie, an authority on the cattle industry…
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Mr. A. R. Campbell submits the following:—The photographs on this page speak for themselves; but the position in regard to our water supply, or lack of it, is so serious that I must hove something to say. Mr. McEvoy made a statement…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Shortage Of Chaff Puts Dairymen In Serious Position
THE serious shortage of chaff has put at least four local dairymen in a tight spot, and unless there are more supplies to hand at an early date may affect others. When the firm of Harris & Co. closed down, dairymen who were buying…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Pea Crop for Tasmania
HOBART. — Tasmania's crop of green peas is likely to be 20 times above normal. An output of more than 100,000 cases of canned green…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →France Eager for Wool
French wool trade leaders are now visiting London and Bradford as official negotiators for prospectively large wool purchases by France to be arranged…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broken Hill's Beef Cattle Drafting at Forder's Paddock
On Wednesday afternoon Mr. E. M. Horsington, M.L.A., and a representative of "Barrier Daily Truth" were amongst the party of meat men who journeyed to Forder's paddock near Cockburn to buy beef on the hoof for Broken Hill…
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