English Boys Fob Farms Arrive Sydney
The first of the Fairbridge Farm boys for school at Molong arrived at Sydney to-day. The party comprises 28 lads, the eldest of whom is 14½, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1938
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Sales of Sheep Skins Sydney
The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers’ Association report that 68,175 sheep skins were catalogued for to-day’s sale. The market opened quickly and prices…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Greasy Wool [?] a Pound Melbourne
The average price for greasy wool sold in Melbourne this week was 12.4d a pound, or £14/13/8 a bale, on an average weight of 284.061 pounds, the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wheat Prices May Harden Sydney
Wheat values in Sydney are prone to harden, for good, dormant buying power exists, states the weekly report of the Lindley Walker Wheat Co. Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Values Rule Firm Sydney
Under very keen all-round competition, values at the wool sales to-day ruled very firm on the closing rates of last week for all descriptions, with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yesterday's Unsold Sheep. Disposed of To-Day. SYDNEY, Tuesday afternoon
Seventeen thousand sheep unsold at Homebush yesterday, owing to the strike, were submitted for sale today. The market for good sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COMMERCE [?] Sheep Market [?] by John McNamara and Co, Pty. Ltd) NEWMARKET
[?] sheep and lambs firm. Other [?] late rate, Store sheep late [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Empire Farmers Meet in Sydney Governor Opens Proceedings Message From the King Read Need for Great Co-operation Stressed SYDNEY
Delegates from many parts of the British Empire from 31 Australian organisations were present at the opening of the Empire Producers’ Conference to-day. A message from die King, which was read by the Governor (Lord…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tallangatta Dairymen Supplies of Bran and Pollard Control of Wheat Exports
At a meeting of delegates of the District Council of the Victorian Dairymen’s Association held at Tallangatta the following resolutions were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Seize Butter Poisoning Suspected Sydney
When his dog died after eating butter from his safe on Sunday, Alfred James Day, 25, laborer, of Wagga, called the police. Suspecting poisoning,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial Fat Sheep and Lamb Sales Melbourne
In the fat sheep section at Newmarket to-day, £3,500 were drawn for. This total was 4000 fewer than last Tuesday. The quality was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Japanese Activity Likely To-morrow’s Wool Sales 20,000 Bales on Offer
Japan is expected to bid freely at the final Albury wool sales for the season to-morrow, when the Associated Brokers will offer 20,000 bates of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Outlook Not Bright for Empire Producers Exports to the United Kingdom Market Reaching Saturation Point Warning Issued by Leader of British Farmers SYDNEY
The leader of the British delegation (Sir Reginald Dorman Smith, M.P.) addressing the Empire producers’ conference to-day, suggested that the economic power of the Empire might be used in economic bargaining. He said British producers would not sit down indefinitely under…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Our London Letter Science and Sport; Flooded Farms; the Tumbler That Smashed Itself; Measuring Pressure in Plant Roots
Olympic Games records have been kept for over 2,700 years, yet of the present track and field records not one is more than six years old…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sheep in N.S.W. Cattle Numbers Decline
The number of sheep in New South Wales at March 31, 1937, was 53,166,000, an increase of 1,230,000 during the year. During the past…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Agricultural & Pastoral Notes
These notes are issued every week by direction of the Honorable the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney Wool Sales
Farmers and Graziers, Albury, yesterday received the following telegram from their Sydney office relative to the wool sales there yesterday:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Newmarket Cattle Sales Melbourne
At Newmarket to-day only 1390 fat bullocks were drawn for, a decrease of [?]60 on last sale. The quality of the offering was only fair and for best…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Future of Wool Stable World Vital Factor
There was no hope of a healthy price improvement for wool until world conditions become more stable and allowed greater freedom…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price of Wool Up in Sydney Sydney
Wool prices were up at to-day’s sales, best descriptions showing an advance of five per cent., while other sorts ruled firm at late rates. There was…
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