Farmers Must Use Machinery
SYDNEY.—Dr. S. L. Macindec, of the Deportment of Agriculture, said at the week end that it is apparent with the advent of the machine are…
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Farming & the land, 1944
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Australian Wool Deteriorating
SYDNEY.—Deterioration in the quality of Australian wool has been going on for many years, and is rapidly becoming serious, said Mr. A…
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SYDNEY.—Attacked by a valuable stud boar on his father's property near Dubbo, Noel Dixon (18) suffered four extensive leg wounds and was…
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SYDNEY.—The Director-General of Agriculture (Mr. Bulcock) said yesterday that investigation is being made into all the labor available for…
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A discussion of the use of Zebu-cross cattle in Australia is given in Bulletin 172, just issued by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research…
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Cattle were in heavier supply at the Adelaide Abattoirs on Monday, 1,520 being yarded. The catalogue was a good, useful one, for the majority of the cattle…
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The Government is examining requests by manufacturers for permission to produce a higher grade double weft, instead of the standard single weft clothes…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Four Years Wheat MELBOURNE, February 10
Without the 100,000,000 bushel crop just harvested, Australia's reserve wheat stocks were sufficient to meet her needs for four years, said the chairman of the…
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CANBERRA.— It was officially stated today that there is no immediate likelihood of the butter ration being cut from eight to six ounces…
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Seventeen Congressmen from 15 woolgrowing States of U.S.A. have protested against the Government plans to sell 330,000,000 lb. of foreign wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Blowfly Breed Plain-bodied Sheep
Blowfly strike in sheep docs not occur by chance, nor is it related, except in a very minor way, to the health of the sheep. It has been definitely…
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Report of Stock Salesmen's Association Owing to washaways on the far northern line no station cattle come forward to this week's market, but the…
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New conditions for the zoning of sheep shearing in Victoria. New South Wales, Tasmania, and South Australia in 1944 were announced recently by Mr…
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At the recent A.W.U. Convention a resolution was introduced reading as follows: "That all uncrutched sheep over six…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Menindee Sheep Shifted From Tolarno
Tolarno Station is in extra bad condition. This property of Mr. J. Warren has fared very badly for rain for very many months and is extremely barren…
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With rubber supplies still below essential requirements, the problem of farm transport threatens to become more acute…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rabbit Plague Menace in S.A. Farming Districts
Throughout the agricultural districts of South Australia the rabbit plague seems to be increasing in proportion, although owing mainly to the extremely…
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CANBERRA.—Speaking on manpower for dairying industry the Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) said that he is hopeful that if certain…
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BRISBANE.— Because of [?] rationing, cattle rustling in Queensland has increased alarmingly. The executive of the council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →S.A. Wheat Board Representative Adelaide, February 22
Mr. J. E. Maycock was today re elected South Australian representative on the Australian Wheat Board. He polled 2,531 votes, defeating Mr…
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