Canada's Farm Methods Studied by Australians
An Australian farm delegation headed by Mr. F. W. Bulcock, Director-General of Agriculture, has arrived in Ottawa to study Canadian farming…
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Farming & the land, 1946
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Water Supplies for Farms
Mr. W. J. McKell (Premier) announces that in order that there shall be no delay in the practical application of the provisions of the Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mechanised Farming In U.K. Scientific Blitz on the Colorado Beetle
The stimulus given to mechanised forming in the United Kingdom by the war shows no sign of slackening now that peace is back again…
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Mr. W. J. McKell (Premier) announces that in order that there shall be no delay in the practical application of the provisions of the Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Australian Wool for the Argentine?
London, August 2.—A London mercantile firm has sounded out Australian woollen mills on the possibility of supplying light woollens to the Argentine…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain Pays 1/11 Lb. for Danish Butter
LONDON, August 5.—Britain is paying 1/11 lb. for Danish butter and 1/4 lb. for bacon under the new Anglo-Danish trade pact…
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CANBERRA—An increase in butter and cheese prices for the third year of the present contract with the British…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Coupon Scale "Unfair To Wool"
LONDON, August 6.—The British coupon system is weighted against wool, according to the director of the Australian News…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Sale of Wool at End of Year
CANBERRA. — About 1,300,000 bales of wool have been listed for sale by the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Urgent Wheat May Be Left Railways Threatened By Coal Shortage
Sydney, August 6.—Unless supplies of railway coal are greatly augmented in the next few months the railways may not be able to handle either the wheat that Australia proposes sending overseas to offset hunger in Europe or even that…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Record Tobacco Crop for U.s.a
NEW YORK, August 6.—A record U.S. tobacco crop, 2,126 million pounds, for 1946 is forecast by the Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dog That Knew His Wool
LONDON, August 7.— A sheep dog mistook two golfers wearing thick, white woollen sweaters for sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Restoration Of Primary Industry Urged at Farmers and Settlers Conference
Sydney, August 7.—The restoration of primary industry, and its lifting from the primitiveness of the purely commercial past, was urged by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Prize" Cerew Members Silent American Farmer Is On Way To Falmoutn
LONDON, August 7.—Members of the "prize" crew bringing the crippled 18,000-ton American Farmer to Falmouth are not talking. Yesterday evening "Daily Express" reporter Basil Cardew, in a Lancastrian,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Farmers Give Womenfolk All Comforts Of The City
NEW YORK.—American farmers try to obtain all comforts for their wives, who in most cases are as well off as women in towns, according to Mr. A. E. Gardiner, of New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Markets Cattle Section
Official report of the S.A. Stock Salesmen's Association, Abatteirs Cattle Market, Adelaide, Monday last: Not only was the number of cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Unrra Sheep for Czechs
An agreement with UNRRA for the delivery to Czochoslovakia of sheep for breeding was made by the London branch of the Czechoslovak Office for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Sales Threatened
Graziers feared that the restricted railway goods services brought about by the coal shortage might disorganise this season's wool auctions, a Sydney wool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Subsidies Criticised
According to private advice received in Melbourne from oversea, the Federal Government's decision to subcidise purchases of raw wool by Australian wool…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Carriage Of Wool—Emergency Measures
Emergency measures to ensure the carriage of wool and other essential products from New South Wales country ares to key shipping points and sales…
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