Artificial Fibres Versus Wool Threat Cannot Be Ignored
Both abroad and in Australia the opinion has been expressed in recent weeks that artificial fibres can never provide a serious menace to wool…
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Farming & the land, 1944
352 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 5 of 18
States Interested New South Wales Farm Mechanisation Scheme
Mr. W. J. McKell, M.L.A.. Premier of New South Wales, writes: It is particularly gratifying to me to learn that at the recent meeting of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Spinners Fleece Wool Unit
The Barrier spinners in future will be known as the Barrier Spinners Fleece Wool Unit. This was decided at the first meeting held this year at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Markets Cattle Section
Official report of the S.A. Stock Salesmen's Association: Not only was the supply of cattle yarded at the Adelaide Abattoirs market…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Barrier Spinners Fleece Wool Unit
The Barrier spinners in future will be known as the Barrier Spinners Fleece Wool Unit. This was decided at the first meeting held this year at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rome's Danger Archbishop's Pastoral Letter SYDNEY, March 19
In a pastoral letter read at all [?] in Sydney today. Arch[?]p Gilroy said that the danger that new threa[?] Rome the Vatican C[?] the Pope [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scotland's Huge Airport Once Was Farming Area
LONDON, March 20.—An Adelaide-born airman, Group-Captain [?]. B. Graham, M.C., A.F.C., is commanding officer at Prestwick Airport, Scotland, one of the main Atlantic ferry terminals in Britain, and one of the world's great aviation developments…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Smaller Wool Clip
Expectations of an increase of 10 per cent, in the number of bales of wool appraised in New South Wales this season is not likely to be realised. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vitamin a and Fertility of Sheep
Research work carried out during recent years by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research and the University of Sydney has indicated a very…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Control of Sheep Blowfly the Modified Mules Operation
Excellent results in the reduction or sheep blowfly strike have been obtained by a combination of the Mules operation and longer docking of the tail of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Markets Cattle Section Official Report of the South Australian Stock Salesmen's Association
Not only was the supply of cattle yarded at the Adelaide Abattoirs market on Monday considerably heavier, 1,525 being yarded, but the selection from a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Ice Cream And Butter Fat MELBOURNE, March 24
A leading ice cream manufacturer said today that he knew of no machine which would make ice cream without at least two or three per cent. of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Synthetic Wool
CANBERRA.—Sir Norman Kater said last night that the Federal Government's policy on synthetic fabrics might end in the destruction of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Synthetics v. Wool CANBERRA, March 29
Official statistics Issued today reveal that imports of woollen piece goods in 1642-43 were less than half those of 1938, 39, but those of synthetics increased from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SYNTHETICS v. WOOL
CANBERRA, March 29.—Official statistics issued today reveal that imports of woollen piece goods in 1942-43 were less than half those of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Great Wool Turnover More Than Million Bales
For the nineteenth successive year wool turnover on the Sydney market this season will total more than a million bales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Birthday Dance At Farmcote
On Saturday night last Farmcote Station was a happy scene. About 55 friends of Nurse Bennett had gathered at the homestead to enjoy a well…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Man Arrested For Murder Of Wife On Farm
"ADELAIDE.—The decomposed body of a 46-year-old woman was found by police today in a lonely farmhouse near Morphett…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dispute Over Sandy Sheep
On Friday last there was a hold-up at Cawker's Well. Weinteriga Station, where 28,000 sheep are being shorn by eight men under engagement to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Organised Postwar Wool Plans
LONDON—Britain welcomes the news of projected schemes for extending wool research in the Commonwealth. British research into wool usage has never…
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