Wheat Harvest Forecast of 20 Million Bushels
A preliminary forecast of twenty million bushels for the 1944-45 New South Wales wheat harvest was made last month by Dr. H. J. Hynes, Chief of the…
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Farming & the land, 1944
352 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 17 of 18
Rabbits Curse to Farmer
CANBERRA.—The plight of a farmer whose property is overrun by rabbits was told in the House of Representatives by Mr. White. U.A.P.,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool And Erosion Overstocking of Land Discussed
Sydney, December 4.—After the cessation of hostilities, resumption of large wool consumption would naturally depend, as far as the European continent…
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London. December 5.—The killing of sheep in bygone days would have been followed by hanging, the chairman of the Bench at Arundel. Sussex, told 12…
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In a recent investigation of losses among rams in transport it was observed that several deaths occurred when sheep which had been starved…
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Official report of the S.A. Stock Salesmen's Association, Abattoirs Cattle Market. 4/2/44:—The number of cattle yarded today…
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Owing to the considerable demand for pure bred milch goats, the Department of Agriculture has again established a milch goat stud, announces the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drought Dominates Agricultural Outlook Value Of Farm Mechanisation Units
Subsequent seasonal developments have served only to darken the picture presented in a departmental report on production trends for the month of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairymen Want Chaff Subsidy
At a meeting of the Master Dairymen's Associations on Wednesday afternoon it was decided to make the application to the Prices Commissioner…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Riot in New York
NEW YORK, December 11.—Nearly 200 women staged a two-hour riot and cleaned out the complete stocks of butter aud sugar at a grocer's shop…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat For Starving Stock a Big Job
Sydney, December 11.—More than 1.000,250 ton of railway trucks are required each week to take wheat to the drought areas where thousands of sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Textile Research Wool And Other Fibres
Some particulars were recently published of new developments in the chemical treatment of wool and other fibres by the Monsanto Chemical Company of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Farmers In N.Z.
Auckland, N.Z., December 13.—A delegation of six representatives of farmers' unions from England. Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland, headed by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Salt Supplements For Sheep "No Sound Evidence of Value"
Sheepowners will be unwise if they take the recent lifting of the restrictions on the sale of licks as an opportunity of reverting to a habit of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →30,000-Acre Vegetable Farm
Major Seabrook, an American Army food technician at present in Australia, belongs to a family which owns the world's largest vegetable farm (30,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →German Prisoners For Farms
London, December 14.—Thousands of German prisoners are to work on farms in Britain. They are taking the place ci Italian co-operators, many of whom are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Farmers on Tour
AUCKLAND.—A delegation of six representatives of farmers' unions in Britain arrived in New Zealand to exchange views with New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Britain's Huge Stocks Of Wool
LONDON, December 17.—Britain owns today the largest store of wool ever known, amounting to 13 million bales, weighing 4,000 million pounds,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →38,000 Bags of Wheat Destroyed
Gulgong, December 17.—When a fire broke out at James Loneragan Milling Company yesterday, 38,000 bags of wheat valued at £18,000 vere destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hail Ruins Many Crops in N.z
AUCKLAND. — Fierce electrical storms and torrential rain have been sweeping the South Island. Hail has ruined many crops at…
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