The Level of Wool Prices War-time and Present Costs
Indications continue favorable for the sale of wool at the advanced prices recorded this season (states Winchcombe…
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Farming & the land, 1947
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Farmer Compares Australian and U.S. Methods
LEETON, Thursday. — In many cases American farming methods were superior to those adopted in Australia, but in many regards the…
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GLOUCESTER, Tuesday.—For December, 1946, cream suppliers to Gloucester Cooperative Dairy. Company were paid 1/7[?] for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Railway Trucks Available for Transporting Cattle
Up to 2 o 'clock this afternoon, not a single cattle truck was available to transport cattle bought at today's weekly stock sales to their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme
The senior dairy Instructor for the district (Mr. J. W. G. Smith), in a talk over station 2NC, gave details of the herd production Improvement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Production at Gloucester
For December, 1946, cream suppliers to Gloucester Co-operative Dairy Company were paid l/7½ for choicest and l/5½ for second grade…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday. — Although the yarding of fat bullocks Newmarket was 10 pen cent smaller than last week, and New…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Cheaper at Homebush
SYDNEY, Thurs. — Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report.—52,876 sheep penned. Prime were Prime lambs were easier,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →N.z. Butter for Canada
MONTREAL, Jan. 30.—Between 4,000,000 and 5,000,000lb of New Zealand butter has been diverted from Britain and is expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Junior Farmer Girl Members Visit Maitland
Interested spectators at Maitland speedway last night were 25 girls from Lismore, all members of Junior Farmers’ Clubs in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Production Falling
In his report on conditions during January, the senior dairy Instructor (Mr. J. W. G- Smith) says the weather has been…
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Pitt Son & Badgery Ltd. report 52,876 sheep and lambs penned, mostly medium to plain quality: prime were relatively…
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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report: Interest during the past week has cenred on the Brisbane market, where the fourth…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Losses of Cattle Mint Weed Danger On Stock Routes
Heavy stock losses have occurred in the Moree and Warialda Pastures Protection districts as a result of mint weed and blue couch poisoning…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →High Wool Prices Misleading Records Overshadow Average Returns
The publicity given to high prices paid this season for choice wools was giving the public an entirely false impression of the returns the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales to U.s. Exceed Pre-war
SAN FRANCISCO, Thursday. — Australia would sell more wool in the United States than in pre-war times, no matter what happened to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Great Freeze-Up Isolates British Villages Moorland Ponies And Cattle Die Of Exposure
LONDON, January 31—The eighth day of the great freeze up brought the harshest-yet cuts in gas and electricity, forced more factories to close through lack of fuel and isolated villages…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Herd Improvement Scheme
The senior dairy instructor for the district (Mr. J. W. G. Smith), in a talk over station 2NC, gave details of the herd production improvement…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Dairymen Lost £2,000,000 Mr. Fadden Criticises Government
The drought-stricken primary producers could go out of production, go bankrupt or just walk off their properties for all…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Burnt
A. E. Cosh northern vice-president of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association, was using sodium chloride to destroy weeds, when some of…
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