Special Sheep Sale
At Echuca on Thursday inst., Messrs McKenzic and Co. will hold their opening off-shears sale. 30,000 sheep will be yarded…
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State Wheat Harvest
In an approximate estimate the Department of Agriculture anticipates that the New South Wales wheat harvest for the season will be slightly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Surplus to Go Bulk of Crop Cleared Abroad
Wheat has been anything but active in the past month, but Australia should be able to clear almost all its exportable surplus before the new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Position Victorian Pool Directors Visit Farmers Urged to Organise
Upwards of 60 district farmers assembled at the Band Hall on Friday afternoon last to hear Messrs. H. W. Gibson, chairman of the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales High Prices Yesterday
AT the opening wooI sales in Melbourne yesterday the highest price for merino was 21½d; and for comeback; 18¾d…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Parasite Infested Sheep. One Hundred Holdings Quarantined. SYDNEY
More than one hundred holdings in the State were quarantined last month, because of the infestation of sheep by parasites…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Sales. Satisfactory Prices. Melbourne Market Opened
The Melbourne wool sales were opened yesterday when the values were generally 50 to 55 per cent, above the opening rates of last year…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sleep's Yield Doubled 8.9lb. of Wool Now: 4lb. IN 1876
The average wool yield of a sheep increased from 4lb, in 1876 to 8.9lb. in 1932, says the annual wool review of Dalgety and Co. Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.S.W. Wheat Harvest 40 Million Bushels Mr. McDonald’s Estimate
Stating that it was somewhat early as yet to speak definitely of wheat yields the director of agriculture (Mr. A. H. E. McDonald) said that from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crop Competition F. & S. Functions to be Held
At a meeting of Deniliquin F. and S. Association on Thursday preliminary arrangements were made for the annual crop…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Rates Too High Farmers Want to break From Municipality
At a meeting of Deniliquin F. and S. Association on Thursday afternoon, a letter was received from the general secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes
(These Notes are issued every week, by direction of the Honorable the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Over 32,000,000 Cattle
Cattle numbers in Argentina, the principal beef exporting country of the world, were reported at 32,212,000 head at the time of the last…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Production Factors Tending to its Limitation
Discussing in an address at the recent State conference of the New South Wales Agricultural Bureau some factors limiting production in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Riverina Crops Department of Agriculture Review As at 31st AUGUST, 1933
During the greater part of the month weather conditions were extremely unfavourable and the out-look in regard to crops, particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Cattle Market
The yarding of bullocks at New market on Wednesday was 1670, an increase of 335. The quality showed some improvement on recent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial Melbourne Sheep Sales
At Newmarket on Tuesday the Sheep yarding was the heaviest for the season (45,000), being 7200 more than last week. Shorn sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Are Sheep Capable of Reasoning?
Edmund Carmichael, secretary of the Performing Animals Defence League, hotly denies the assertion of Professor Craig, principal of the Dublin…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales in Melbourne
Recent strong rises in wool prices at Sydney, Brisbane and Adelaide sales were well maintained at the opening of the 1933-34 Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commercial Melbourne Wool Sales
Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd., for their first sale of the season, on Tuesday, brought forward a catalogue of 5,000 bales, comprising practically all…
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