25,000 More Farmers Could Support a Million More People
The Rural Reconstruction Commission has told the Minister for Postwar Reconstruction (Mr Chifley) that Australia could…
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Farming & the land, 1944
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Dairymen to Receive Increased Price 3½d Per Gallon Recommended
An increase of 3½d a gallon in the price of whole milk delivered at factories within the milk zone has been recommended in a majority report to the Premier (Mr. MeKell) by the Milk Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat for Dairy Cattle Care in Feeding
Very disappointing results and, in fact, actual fosses can result from unskilful feeding of wheat to cattle, points out a note by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Produce, Cattle, Sheep To-day's Markets. Sydney
Bran and pollard, £6 ton; pumpkins, 12/- to 16/-, at Alexandria, 7/- to 11/-; butter, 169/4 cwt.; cheese, 1/- to 1/3½ lb.; eggs, hen 2/-, medium 1/8 dozen;…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd., reports on 4th inst.:—We submitted our Appraisement Catalogue,....o. 133, comprising over 5000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ambiguity in Contract Discussion Over Wool
An ambiguity in the terms of the British Government's contract to purchase the Australian wool clip is causing considerable discussion in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Abernethy Poultry Farms
Cr. Johnson requested Kearsley Council, at its meeting last Tuesday night to approach the Hunter District Water Board to have water provided for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Guarantee For Farmers Statement By Commerce Minister
The Commonwealth Government's decision to pay a guaranteed price for feed barley, while not only spectacular, ranked in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Potato Crop Valued at £8,000,000
CANBERRA Mon.—The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Scully, said that potato growers throughout Australia had made a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Cattle Scarce at Maitland
Moderate to Inferior quality cows formed the bulk of the yarding of 700 fat cattle at Campbell’s Hill saleyards to-day. There…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World Wheat Situation Carry-over Decrease
It is still Impossible to obtain reliable statistics of wheat production and stocks in USSR, China and countries under Axis…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harvesting Sugar Crop
BRISBANE Wed.—The general secretary of the Queensland Canegrowers’ Association (Mr. R. Muir) stated that forecasts based…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Cheaper at Homebush
SYDNEY Thurs.—Pitt. Son and Badgery, Ltd., report 52.467 sheep and lambs penned, the general quality moderate to plain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Raymond Terrace Butter Output
During the month of March the Raymond Terrace Co-op Dairy and Produce Co., Ltd., manufactured 104 tons of butter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poor Wheat Outlook
There was no uossibility of increased acreage for wheat in New South Wales this season, because dry conditions have stopped farming…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Truckings To Singleton
SINGLETON Friday.—Twelve hales of wool and 2173 bags of wheat inwards were handled at Singleton railway during March…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Smaller American Clip. Wool Control Benefits
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—The quantity of wool shorn in the United States during 1943 was about four per cent. less than In 1942, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Factory Milk Quota 3,342,820 Gallons Needed By June
The quality of milk received by the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Co. Ltd., last month totalled 1,257,688…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DAIRYMEN. To Meet Prof. Copland
The Milk Zone Dairymen's Council, expects to discuss with the Commonwealth Prices Commissioner, Professor Copland, within a…
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