Holiday Pay Federal Pastoral Award
What does "full pay" mean under the Federal Pastoral Award when a station hand goes on holidays? The question has arisen and there is some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1928
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Cattle Poisoned
Out of 1700 cattle sold at the Moree saleyards recently, 80 were found dead the next morning. After the sale the cattle were driven into a paddock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep at Wagga
A report presented by the Wagga Stock Inspector, Mr. Whyte, to the Pastures Protection Board states that 1,500,000 sheep were depaeturing in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Irrigated Wheat
To demonstrate whether or not wheat could be grown successfully at Leeton by irrigating, some trials were made last season. The ground…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Growing Sow Only Pure Graded Seed
The complaint is frequently made by farmers that the seed of a variety of wheat that they have been growing for years has "run out," or that some…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rebate From Fool £400,009 for Dairy FARMERSs
Amongst the matters discussed by the Australian butter stabilisation committee, last week, was the disposal of the surplus derived from the levy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial. Special Sheep Sale at Albury. Wednesday, January 25. 1928
Dalgety and Company Limited report holding a special sale of sheep in the Albury yards on the above date, when they yarded 33,500 sheep, which…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dry Farming 75,000 Acres of Land Available
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Thorby) has announced that it has been decided to make available for settlement 72,000 acres of land at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prison Farms
The Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) who has just referenced from a tour of inspection of a number of [?] fauns, announced on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General News Wool Sales
At the Sydney wool sales last Monday, wool was 5 per cent, above last week's rates. Greasy merino fleece sold to 34½d, comebacks to 28¾d, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Balranald Wheat
Only 132 bags of wheat have so for been depatched from the Balranald railway station as compared with 4,500 bags last year (says the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →District Hospital Wheat Pool
Mr. J. Lawson advices that the following have donated wheat to date E.A. Pearn, 3 bags F. Bell, H. R. Thompson, B. Morris F. Bell, 2 bags…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Great Gamble Starving Sheep the Stakes
On the whole I should say that of ail the optimists who sit in at Nature’s gaming table, the least liable to pull out with empty-pockets is the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Cheerful Statement the Wool Position
In a final report for the year 1927 directors of Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd. state that approximately 60 per cent. of the New South Wales wool clip has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Harvest lowest for Nine Years Estimate of 27,111,000 Bushels
The wheat harvest in this State of 27,111,000 bushels, which was the subject of a preliminary estimate by the Government Statistician, is the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Harvest. Poorest for Eight Years
The estimates for the wheat harvest for the season 1927-28, as announced by the State Statistician, Mr T. Walton, last week,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Auctions. Very Favourable Selling Conditions
The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. writes:—At our sale of the 31st January we offered a catalogue comprising…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commercial Wool Sales. Melbourne
Goldsbrough Mort and Company Ltd on Monday submitted a catalogue of 6200 bales comprising a big variety of wools suitable for general…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Skin Reports
The Melbourne Woolbrokers' Association weekly auction report, 2nd February. Sheep skins: Aggregate totals sent for auction sales this day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Modern Wheat Growing Wimmera and Mallee Lessons Tour of Deniliquinites to Southern Farms
Two lessons were learned in the first day of the trip to the Mallee and the Wimmera by Deniliquinites, last week-end. The first was that, as soon as it rains, the wheat farmers take stops to prevent the sun drying the rain off the land…
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