Sheep And Lamb Replacements Will Stock Totals Be Maintained?
More than 11,700,000 sheep and lambs are needed in New South Wales each year to make up for slaughtering and deaths…
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Farming & the land, 1944
352 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 18
Pastoral District of Broken Hill Slipping Mr. E. Andrews Of Tandora Station Makes Some Interesting Observations
The Broken Hill pastoral district is slipping, taking by comparison the average year of the last decade with the average year of several decades ago. The present drought condition is the worst in the district's history, if we measure its extent and acuteness With both those features…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Zebu Cattle for North Australia Sydney, January 22
A report linked with the problem of setting a greater population in North Australia will be issued soon by the Council for Scientific and industrial…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Use for Wool Grease
CANBERRA.—The New Guinea campaign has unexpectedly provided a new use for grease extracted from Australian raw wool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle Section
Official report of the S.A. Stock Salesmen's Association:—A short supply of cattle came to hand at the Adelaide Abattoirs market on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Sales
Wednesday's yarding of 18,500 sheep at the Adelaide Abattoirs was a decrease of 4,000 on last week. Aged ewes and wethers again formed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Use for Wool Grease
The New Guinea campaign has unexpectedly provided a new use for grease extracted from Australian raw wool. Wool grease has proved to be an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Conditions, Activities And Tracks Ira The Cattle Country
Great expanses of cattle country in West and South-west Queensland and in South Australia and the Northern Territory need rain. A party of stockmen and drovers left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eradication of Cattle Tick Growing Appreciation of Value of Dipping
"Interesting figures are supplied by the Chairman of the Board of Tick Control in his annual report for the year ended 30th June, 1943, observes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Workers to Register
MELBOURNE.—Hundreds of Victorian dairy farmers and former rural workers in other jobs are to be compelled to register with the Manpower…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Australian Wheat for Mexico Washington, January 30
The columnist, Drew Pearson, reports that Mexico, with United States help will import 48.000 tons of wheat from Australia, using returning American…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter-fat Record Broken
Concluding her official test over 273 days as a junior three-year-old last Friday, the Jersey cow, Pembroke Peggy, created a new State all-breeds record…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Blowfly Control Recommended Methods Cheapest
In seasons when the blowfly is bad the cost incurred by the average grazier in combating fly-strike has been estimated at £35 per thousand flock sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Transport Of Sheep From Menindee a Busy Few Days
Sunday and Monday last at Menindee were two of the busiest days in the last year or two, as hundreds of sheep were loaded into railway trucks for transit to various places along the way to as far as Forbes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worms in Sheep Preventive Drenching Must Be Done Early
The necessity for corly preventive drenching for the control of worms in sheep when conditions favor the building up of Infestations, was shown by the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Bundy" Crush for Holding Sheep During the Mules' Operation
Because of the heavy work involved in lifting grown sheep on to a rail of suitable height to carry out the Mules operation, the manager of Bundy…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Against Substitutes States to Enact Labelling Laws
Speaking at a wool conference at Armidale, New South Wales, on Saturday, Mr. Scully. Commerce Minister, expressed fear that competition of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Market Reports Cattle Section Official Report of the S.a. Stock Salesmen's Assoc
The supply of cattle was heavier than that of the previous market, 1,450 coming to hand, compared with 1,280 last week. The selection was generally an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Potato Farmers
Farmers were sick of dilatory methods of the potato control authorities, and many growers were not putting in their autumn crops, said Mr. Vincent, M.L.A.,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney To Be Meat Hungry Bank Up of 72,000 Sheep Sydney, February 4
Because of continued trouble at Homebush Abattoirs Sydney will be meat hungry this week-end. Indications late today were that it would be practically…
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