Holiday on Farm
According to the Commonwealth Employment Service, an unusual number of city dwellers is looking for country work, particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1949
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Markets Cattle Section
The official report of the S.A. Stock Salesmen's Association on the Abatto[?] Cattle Market on Monday was. The shortest yarding of cattle for a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Competition
The annual competition conducted by the Methodist Church, on wool production, this year will be held at the end of September. That is only nine weeks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Outlook New Season's Wool Likely to Harden
Some months ago the "Western Grazier" forecast that wool prices would still rise and thereafter harden. and the usual ace[?]ked, or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep and Cattle Die in Snow
Melbourne.—Hundreds of sheep and cattle have been frozen to death, and many more are dying from starvation. [?] in a week-old,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Girl Bosses and Nurses 3000 Sheep
Melbourne.—She's the boss of 3000 sheep. Joy Calvert (21), from the Kalymna fine wool stud at Maroona in the Western District, had her worries at the sheep show…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Sold Below Cost
Washington, August 2.—U.S.A. has begun exporting wheat and flour to 19 nations at less than cost…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Was Shakespeare a Farmer ? Wool Man at I.W.S. Show Starts Another Argument About Bard
Woolgrowers—many of them from remote parts of Australia. South Africa, and New Zealand—including several who had never before been outside their…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World Wool News Novel Wool Display for Brisbane Exhibition Films to be Screened too
Wool will be displayed in a novel form at the forthcoming Royal National Exhibition in Brisbane beginning on August 6. The display which is being…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pictures In Wool French Girl Presents New Art Form
Just about the time, in 1939. when Europe was beginning to thunder with the tramp or marching men. Mile. Marie Lemaistre, placidly decorating a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Overseas Wool Buyers Anxious About Supplies Coal Strike May Cause Delay in Shipments
[?] and Continental firms whose wool stocks are not heavy are anxious lest the Australian coal strike should delay the arrival of Commonwealth wool…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Less Wool for America
Canberra.— Figures released here show that the United States, in the year ended June 30 last, dropped from second to fourth place…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Wheat Council Gets Busy
Mr Edwin McCarthy. Secretary of the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle Droving Tough On Man And Beast
The crackle of stockwhips and the slow swish of cattle moving through long grass are almost continuous round Newcastle Waters just now. "The Waters" is set at the junction of four of the Territory's main stock routes. Thousands of head of cattle have passed through the settlement since…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →African Record Wool Clip
Johannesburg, August 8.—South Africa's wool clip for the season ended June 30 created a record, with prices averaging 3/- a lb…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →3d. More for Butter Soon
Melbourne.—An increase in the retail price of butter may be approved on Friday, when State Prices Ministers will confer in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Killed
Adelaide, August 9.—At Melrose to- [?] Walter Arthur, a well known local [?] was killed buUntly In unasual [?] ances. He and his son were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lice in Sheep
A lot of time was spent in discussing lice in sheep at the P.P. Board meeting the other day. Most of this was time well spent—from the angle of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Program Televised in N.Y.
"Natural Wonders." a weekly feature of Television Station WNBT. New York. was in a recent session, devoted exclusively to an educational show about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →International Control Agreement on Wool Reported U.K. Govt. Move Causes Anxiety
In political circles in London it is reported that at the international monetary talks in Washington in September. Sir Stafford Cripps may propose a series…
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