Shortage of Wheat Drop in Harvest This Year
A harvest of only 14½ million bushels of wheat is expected in New South Wales this season. This was announced this week by the…
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Farming & the land, 1946
520 stories in Broken Hill & the Far West's papers · page 26 of 26
Erosion of Dairy Land
Considerable erosion os steep dairying land between Kyogle and Murw[?]llumbah was revealed in a tour of inspection by Mr. R. Powles, of the Bolls…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →London Wool Sales Close
London, December 14.—Home operators secured the bulk of the offering at the closing day of the final series of the London wool sales for 1946. Price…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Three Men Buried in Coal Minesaved by Qsd Farmer
BRISBANE.—Three coal prospectors, partially buried for nearly two hours beneath tons of rock and timber, were rescued by a 55-year-old farmer using a shovel and saw…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →British Funds To Buv Wool For Germans?
LONDON, December 16.— Yorkshire "Post's" Bradford correspondent states that it is believed that some of the further…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Geelong Wool Sales
GEELONG.—When the fourth series of wool sales here closed yesterday top prices realised were 92d. for Merino fleece and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Good Competition at Sydney Wool Sales
SYDNEY—Values at Sydney wool sales were fully firm at closing rates for the previous series. Full clearances were…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bulk Trading With Colonies Britain's Arrangements For Purchase Of Whole Crops
Details of long-term bulk trading between Britain and the Colonies have been given by Mr. Creech Jones, Secretary of State for the Colonies. These…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat and Flour For Britain "Avert Very Grave Emergency"
London, December 18.—By granting Britain permission to buy and export 65,000 tons of wheat and 36,000 tons of wheat flour between now and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Cows' Tunnel
Of the items in the set-up of a newly completed modem dairy at Whyalla, South Australia, is a tunnel in which fans are installed to create…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairymen's Working Conditions
Sydney, December 19.—The Primary Producers' Union will urge that consideration be given to the fact that dairymen have to work at week ends and on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Farm Production
LONDON, December 21.—The British Government intends to organise agricultural production at home as part of the nation's…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Still Demanded
Sydney, December 24—Predictions that synthetic textiles would ruin the wool trade had been all at sea states a report from Winchcombe Carson Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World Hunger For Wool
SYDNEY.—The first half of the I946-47 wool-selling season, which closed in Sydney last week, demonstrated the world hunger…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Canadian Wool Clip Way Be Less
OTTAWA (by Air Mail).—The bulk of the 1946 Canadian wool clip has reached the warehouses, eastern domestic…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No Finish Likely Of Farm Horses
OTTAWA.—Those who may entertain the idea that the horse will eventually become obsolete as a source of farm power in…
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Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Definition Of Wool
In the House of Commons last week, Mr. H. R. Spence (Aberdeen, Kincardine Central) moved to annual an order containing a definition of wool as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Aid For Sydney Wool Show
Numerous contacts have been made by the International Wool Secretariat, London, in response to the Australian Wool Board's request for assistance in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Gored to Death by Bull
MELBOURNE — Alfred Robert Oswell (55), farmer, of Frankston Road, Dandenong, was gored to death by a bull on…
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