More Machinery Strife Faces Australian Wheat Farmers
A Narromine farmer, who has had a harvester ordered for two years, has this to say about the prospects for…
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Farming & the land, 1948
1,060 stories in Lachlan (Forbes, Parkes, Cowra)'s papers · page 21 of 53
New Wool Fabrics
Wool fabrics, treated with a rubber preparation to make them suitable for motor car upholstery, were among the…
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A grant of £21,000 has been made by the Rockefeller Foundation to Professor W. T. Atsbury, professor of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Price Slump Stories Denied
The West Australian representative on the Wheat Board (Mr. J. S. Teasdale) has denied that wheat supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dingoes Destroy Hundreds Of Upper Hunter Sheep
Packs of killer dingoes have been ravaging Upper Hunter sheep flocks in recent months, and adding to the disastrous losses that have been steadily mounting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Wools of the World Display at the Sydney Sheep Show
At the Sydney Sheep Show, which opens on Wednesday, 2nd June, and continues until Saturday, 5th June the Rural Bank will…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Show Committee Meeting Seventy-two Additional Sheep Pens to be Erected
Mr. J. H. Gavel occupied the chair at the above meeting on Saturday, 22nd 'May. Those present were Messrs. E. Elliott, T. D…
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The Sydney Royal Agricultural Society is considering the staging of a mammoth Farm Produce Exhibit,…
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Twelve farms on Nangus Estate, in the Gundagai district, are to be made available for servicemen, stated the Minister…
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Australian Wool Brokers So Produce Co. Ltd., report:--Sales were continued in Brisbane last week, where all the best features…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Parkes Special Sheep Sale
Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Limited, Parkes, advise having conducted a special sheep sale at Parkes on Friday, May 28, when 8000 sheep came…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Acquisition of Wheat Court Declares Order Valid
The Full High Court at Melbourne, yesterday ruled that the Commonwealth had power to acquire the 1945-46 wheat crop…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sturdy Merino What the Sheep Industry Means to Australia Interesting Lecture Over the Air
IN a recent session of "The Agricultural Magazine of the Air," A Mr. E. I. Body, president of the N.S.W., Sheep Breeders'. Association, delivered quite an interesting address on the importation into Australia of the Merino sheep and the evolution…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Progressive Farmers on U.s. Tour
Mr. Wallace Meares, of Forbes, a mixed fanner member of the Rural Bank Progressive Farmer team which is now on a world tour, discusses irrigation with a Californian vegetable grower…
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Winch combe, Curson report: We sold 6600 bales of wool at our Sydney auction on Monday. As compared with the closing…
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The following telegram was received from Winchcombe Carson Ltd. We sold 6600 bales of wool at our Sydney auction last Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →59th Annual Wool Review by Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd
The 1947/48 clip of the Commonwealth is likely to realise the record total of £145,000,000 in Australian currency. The amount…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Vermiculite, New Lightweight Mineral, Has Advantages in Farm Buildings. From: the Reader's Digest For June, 1948
Vermiculite is a newly developed mineral weighing only six to eight pounds per cubic feet, as against 100 1bs. for sand. As a substitute…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Market Report Special Sheep Sale
Goldsbrough Mort & Co. Ltd., report having held a very successful special sheep sale at Forbes last Thursday, May 27. 13,000 good quality…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Loopholes in Wheat Agreement
The Victorian Government has been advised by counsel that the International Wheat Agreement recently ratified by the Commonwealth…
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