Radio Saved Riverina Farmer £130 Knew Traveller's Price for Bags Was High
An Interesting Illustration of the value of radio to a wheat-grower is reported from the Riverina. A traveller in wheat bags was doing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1929
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Pastoral Wool Competitions An Interesting Innovation
The stimulative effect of agricultural competitions and the benefit to farm practice has been illustrated in the crop growing and other contests…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Fat Sheep Market Splendid Sale—sheep Up to 2/ Dearer Lambs Very Firm
John McNamara and Co. Pty. Ltd. report Melbourne fat sheep market, under date 8/1/29, as follows:— Thirty-four thousand nine hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To Treat Blown Sheep Some Hints for the Stockman
Individual sheep can often be caught and treated in the paddock, but with a serious infestation it may be necessary to yard the flock or run them into a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →TOP-DRESSING Its Effect on the Wool
With the object of determining whether top-dressed pasture affects the quality of wool, the Department of Agriculture recently instituted…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Useful Catch Crop Millet Is Easily Grown
The farmer who desires a quick-maturing crop that will be useful as forage or hay, or for conversion into silage, should consider growing some…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deniliquin Hospital Wheat Pool
The complete list of donations of wheat delivered and promised to the hospital wheat pool through Messrs. J. A. Lawson and .Toft. Powles are as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.S.W. Wheat F.A.Q, Standard 83lb, to Bushel
The gram trade sectional committee of the Sydney Chamber of Com Lastmerce met yesterday and fixed the fair average quality standard for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Empire Wool Industry Important Mission from Britain Australian Growers are Interested
Dr. J. E. Nichols of the British Research Association for the woollen and worsted industry, was deputed by the Empire Marketing Board to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?]Er Patrol for Hours a Day Is Club's Objective the Sick in Hospital [?] of Wheat
[?]list of donors of wheat [?] promised to the Hos[?] Houses J.Mr.Jeff Powles, is…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →farmers and Settlers Local Government Problems
Although the last annual conference of the Farmers’ and Settlers’ Association passed eleven resolutions dealing with local government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Traffic
The following are the deliveries of wheat at stations on the Culcairn-Corowa line up to and including Saturday last:--Hopefield 60,699 bags to allos…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Firm Wool Market Upward Trend in London
The first wool sales of the year which extend over eleven days, are attracting a large number of home and Continental buyers in London, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Nathoura Notes (From Our Correspondent.) Thursday. Wheat Grading
Now the harvest is over farmers are busy grading wheat for the coming Season, On Mr. . Peck’s property, Gotha, Walliston, a McKay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Intense Heat at Rockhampton. Cattle Die in Sale Yards. BRISBANE
The heat was so intense during the cattle sale at Rockhampton, yesterday, that ten animals died, while many calves were in the last stages of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Lamb-marking Losses How to Prevent Them
The heavy losses of lands during the period following the operation of marking is the result of infection with inoenlable diseases such us tetanus have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Varieties Of Wheat Departmental Recommendations for Different Districts
The following are the latest departmental recommendations as to the varleties of wheat best sulted to various portions of the State:—…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Fat Sheep Market Prices for All Classes Very Firm
John McNamara and Co. Pty. Lts., report Melbourne fat sheep marker, under date 15/1/29, as follows:— Fat Sheep: 11,280 yarded, being an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Transport of Wool by 'Plane Machine to Carry 8 OR 10 Bales Each Trip
Transport of wool by aeroplane is now being considered by the Australian Aerial Service. Ltd., which already has transported sheep, calves…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral Problems Gland drafting in Sheep Those Voronoff Experiments
When Voronoff first talked of his experiments in gland grafting the general tendency was to ridicule the idea. Since then, however scientists…
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