Record Wool Exports
Canberra.—Australian wool exports for the 11 months ended May 31 were worth £13,643,500 an alltime record. This figure Was…
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Farming & the land, 1948
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International Wool Conference Abolition Of Australian Wool Subsidy Opposed
The 17th, International Wool Conference, which ended at Amsterdam on June 19, adopted o resolution "registering lively satisfaction of the reported decision of the Australian Government to discontinue the subsidy hitherto paid to Australian…
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Canberra, July 8.—Australian wool exports for the eleven months ended May 31 were worth £130,433,000—an all-time record…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Internal Parasites In Cattle Management Of Young Stock
Worm infestation is frequently a cause of serious trouble in young stock in the coastal districts of New South Wales. Particularly in wet seasons, young…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coal Swap For Wool
Sydney. — the chairman of Sydney County Connell (Mr. J. O. Cramer) said last night that the Connell had received an offer…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Drama For New Film Company
Australian Motion Pictures Ltd., which has been registered recently will produce modern Australia pictures for home and overseas…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dollar Credit For Farm Machinery Barter Scheme Proposed In N.Z.
Wellington (N.Z.), July 13.—A barter scheme to create 10 million dollars credit in the United States for the purchase of farming machinery has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Classing
However small the flock, periodical classing is necessary to ensure maximum returns. The following desirable characters should be kept in mind when culling…
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Official report of the S.A. Stock Salesmen's Association. Adelaide Abattoirs Cattle Market, Monday: The supply of cattle today was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool News Essay Competitions on Wool
With less than two months to go before the closing date, entries for the essay competitions being conducted by the Australian Wool Board have been received from oil States and from the Australian Capital Territory. Intending competitors should…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deleterious Substances In Wool Precautions Necessary When Baling
More or less regularly each year a general complaint is sent out from Branford regarding the amount of foreign matter—principally jute fibres—which…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Flour Mills Forced To Close No Trucks For Wheat
Sydney, July 15.—Metropolitan flour mills were closing down because of the inability of the Railways Department to provide sufficient trucks to transport…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Federal Wheat Scheme Guarantee Of 6/3 In Bulk
Canberra, July 13—The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. R. T. Pollard) put forward a new wheat stabilisation, scheme at a meeting of State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Clip Totals 155 1/2 MILLIONS Big Advance In Prices
Sydney, July 15.—Australia's wool wealth for the 1947-48 season was £155 1/2 million—an increase of more than £63 million over the 1946-47 wool year. These figures were released today by the National Council of Woolselling Brokers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain's Food Production Is Going Up Increase In Agricultural Acreage; More Hens And Better Dairy Herds
Land devoted to food production in Britain has increased by nearly half a million acres since last year. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. Tom Williams, has forecast that the potato acreage will be a record and that there will be 2,300,000 acres under…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Sown By Air
Tamworth, July 19.—Successful local experiments in sowing grain from the air have aroused wide interest among farmers. At Tamworth for the first time…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Sown From Air
Tamworth.—Successful local experiments in sowing grain from the air have aroused wide interest among farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Pastoral Year
Sydney, July 20.—Nearly every stock inspector in N.S.W. pastoral areas had reported to the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia that recent rains promise…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Japs To Get Raw Wool
Tokio, July 19.—Australian delegates told the sterling area trade conference in Tokio that Australia was prepared to supply raw Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Worm Infestation In Young Cattle
In wet seasons especially and particularly if animals are poorly nourished kept on the some overstocked groudn or [?] stamp areas young cattle in coastal…
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