Oversea Demand for Wool
Melbourne, January 16.—While there is no lack of Inquiry for wool, the principal difficulty of buyers is to get wool that has been purchased away to oversea…
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Farming & the land, 1946
520 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 2 of 26
Budgaree Left to the Drought Only 100 Sheep Now
Budggree Station has been virtually left to the drought and its ravage. There are only 100 sheep on the run and they are close to water and a little feed. Gillett Bros, fought on through the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.s. Coal-wheat Shipments to Liberated Areas
Washington, January 7.—The United States Department of Agriculture on January 5 authorised the commercial export of 387.000 long tons of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Great Good To Pastoral Industry
Sydney. January 20.—Week-end rains in the western met[?]gical division of the State would give pastoral interests the [?] fill in since the bumper year at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →6,400 Fowls Lost at Silverton Flood Waters Cause Devastation Among Poultry Farms
A tour of the larger poultry farms at Silverton on Saturday gave a picture which could be likened to Belsen Camp with the exception that the mass burials were of fowls drowned by flood waters instead of human beings as the result of torture and hunger…
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Official report of the S.A. Stock Salesman's Association Outing to washaways cattle netthets hues the number of station cattle to hotel this week was very much…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Use of Iodine for Sheep
[?]oome is essential for me, deficiency being evidenced by such symptoms as enlarged thyroid elands, abnormal development and birth or dead or week…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Exports of Greasy Wool Increase
During the second half of 1945 Australian greasy wool exported to the U.K. totalled. 484,489 bales, valued at £A9,882,000. This compares with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Much Sheep Stealing in West Wyalong
WEST WYALONG.—Addressing a meeting of the Graziers' Association, Mr. A. L. Mcinnes, of Weethallie, claimed that sheep stealing in this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Enough Wool for Five Years
NEW YORK, January 28.—The chairman of the International Wool Secretariat (Dr. Edgar Booth) told the American Wool Council that if…
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Because of the large number of sheep to enter this district from other States, where the earmarking and branding regulations are vastly dissimilar, the local…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Alleged Racket By Communists In Pastoral Industry
SYDNEY.—"We have underworld rackets at King's Cross and Woolloomooloo, and in other parts of Australia, but none of these can compare with the Communists' racket in the pastoral industry, said Mr. R. W. Wilson, a N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Empire Wool Agreement Approved by Producers
The Empire wool agreement, providing for the disposal of the war-time accumulation of 11,000,000 bales, was approved in general principle by the Australian Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Dairymen May Strike
SYDNEY.—"I can only describe the Cabinet decision as staggering," declared the secretary of the Milk Zone Council (Mr. Sedgwick) last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →V.C. Winner Travels In Cattle Truck
PERTH.—Cpl. Starcevitch, Western Australian winner of the Victoria Cross, arrived here unannounced in a troop train after travelling from Port…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Wool Sent to England
During the post 12 months the export of Australian wool to the United Kingdom Increased by more than 219,000 bales compared with the previous year's…
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Melbourne.—Australia has decided to cut the allocation of wheat for stock food from 30,000,000 to 25,000,000 bushels to provide more…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Higher Wheat Prices Plan for Growers
To enable growers to benefit from prevailing high prices, the Opposition, at the next session of Federal Parliament. Will seek exclusion of the present harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disposal of Wool N.z. Loan Meeting
Referring to the agreement for the rea[?]sation of wool surpluses at the fifty-first annual meeting of New Zealand and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. in London, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drought Relief for Dairy Farmers
SYDNEY, February 10.—The Minister for Agriculture Mr. E. H. Graham, says that payment of drought relief to dairy farmers is being made soon…
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