Subsidy For Dairymen
Mr. J. F. Hoaking, secretary of the Dairymen's Association, has been advised that a subsidy on teh price of chaff and hay has been granted to local dairymen…
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Farming & the land, 1945
347 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 1 of 18
Wool Outlook In New Year
LONDON, January 1.—The wool trade here takes a soberly optimistic view of the new year's world wool outlook, which is believed to hold the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drought Wheat Losses
Sydney, January 3.—Instead of the 50 million bushel crop wheat planned for N.S.W. this year's yield will be only 18 million bushells…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ground Wheat for Stock
A suggestion that ground wheat be made available to dairy farmers at stacking depots was made in Adelaide this week by the president of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Post-War Wool Disposal Scheme Urged
Brisbane.—Provided a scheme similar to that which operated after the 1914-18 war was introduced, the huge accumulation of wool in Australia and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rabbit Pest Growth Menace to Wool
"The rabbit has gained ground in the past two years and is a greater danger to the pastoral industry today than in pre-war days," says Dalgety and Co.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Post-war Wool Stocks Position Still Uncertain
Although the Commonwealth Government some months ago negotiated four year contracts with the Government of Great Britain for the sale of Australia's…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Co-operation and Farmer Post-war Possibilities
National planning for the safeguarding of social and economic justice will clearly be a feature of the post-war world and as an aid to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record Drought In Riverina Low Crop Returns
Albary, January 5.—The South-Eastern Riverina broke all [?]ords for a dras[?] year climatically, the senior instructor of the Department of Agriculture (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Potato Crop W[?] By A Record
Sydney, January [?] Australia overall [?] supply [?] was better than it has[?] the Minister for [?] today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Wool on Stray Sheep
MUDGEE.— Eighty-three pounds of fleece were shorn from a sheep recently captured in the hills south of Mudgee. The fleece was worth…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Markets Cattle Section
Official report of the S.A. Stock Salesmen's Association:—Another short supply of cattle was yarded today, only 1.100 coming to hand, which number…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Giver Away
A well-knovvn Bathurst grazier is reported to be offering 500 wethers free to anyone who will take them off his properly!…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Safeguarding Wool Interests
Woolgrowers will welcome the news that the British authorities have placed further restrictions on the use of rayon staple fibre in British wool textiles. Such…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Tick Outbreak At Bowraville
Cattle ticks have been found on cattle in the vicinity of Bowraville. Immediate steps to deal with the outbreak include the placing of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Down Cliff to Rescue Sheep
LONDON—Four days after he had risked his life by descending 100ft. down a disused lead mine shaft at Calver, Derbyshire, in an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Disposal Of Wool Stocks
CANBERRA.—British and Dominion officials will meet in England next month to discuss the disposal of wool surpluses after…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Control in War Has Given Satisfaction
Few war time controls have given as much satisfaction to producers and, with Britain's wool purchase arrangement, have done as much to obtain stability,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Steely" Wool Due to Copper Deficiency in Pastures
What is known as "steely" wool has been the product of newly-developed or coastal country in many parts of Australia, which in what was originally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Process in "Proofing" Wool Ready
A progress of shrink-proofing woollen materials developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research will be demonstrated in Melbourne this month to…
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