Agricultural Varieties of Wheat Recommendations for Different Districts
Following are the latest wheat variety recommendations of the Department of Agriculture. Unless otherwise mentioned, the varieties recommended…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1939
2,461 stories in Murray's papers · page 2 of 124
Sydney Wool Sales Re-opened Yesterday. SYDNEY
The fifth series of wool sales was opened at Sydney yesterday. Under keen competition from the Continental section and with good support…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Tragedy at Nar-andera Dairy Farmer Before Court
Ernest Hough (44), dairy farmer, was remanded at a special sitting of the Narandera Court on Monday on a charge of having, it was alleged, murdered his…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Breeding in Australia “No Chance of Competing Against the Argentine” Sydney
Expressing the opinion that the Argentine was more suitable than Australia for cattle breeding Mr. C. Arkell Smith, a director of several…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Families on Farms Position Under National Insurance Official Explanation
A problem under the National Health insurance and Pensions insurance Plan of the Commonwealth Government is that of the position of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer Remanded on Murder Charge
At a special sitting of the Narrandera Police Court on Monday, Ernest Hough, aged 44, dairy farmer, was remanded on a charge of having…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Water for Dairy Cows As a Factor in Cream Quality
Although it is most desirable from many points of view that cows should have a plentiful supply of good, clean drinking water, sometimes the water…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Rugging Sheep. Wool Cheque Verdict of Western Test. No Difference in Skirtings
Much reference has been made to the propable advantage of the rugging of sheep in dusty areas and many opinions have been expressed by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →SALES , of Sheep Skins Sydney
The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers’ Association report that 119,228 sheep skins were offered for sale to-day. A weaker and irregular market ruled and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Market Reports Wool Sale Reports
Dalgetty and Co. Ltd. report: Wool sales were resumed in Melborne on on 4th January and we submitted 2650 bales, including a batch of bulk…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Boy on the Farm
If you are a farmer and you want your son to be a farmer after you, teach him from his earliest boyhood to respect his father's calling. Instil…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Feeding Farm Horses
A frequent cause of trouble with farm horses is due to insufficient attention being paid to their feeding (states an exchange). Lack of tone…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Limewash That Lasts Tried Formulas for Farms
Common limewash, made by slaking freshly burnt lime and diluting it with water, is often found too friable when dry, and rubs or flakes off…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Young Mutants for Farm Work N.S.W. Gets Quota Melbourne
Enthusiastic for their new life, despite their tender years, 19 boys and seven girls arrived in the Jervis Bay to-day from England, bound for the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Cheque Drop £3 Million Leeway Six Months Selling Period. Sydney
The National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia has compiled the following statistical summary of the results of the first half…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Sales
Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. report:—For their seventh sale of the current season, on January 5, this company submitted a catalogue of about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report World Conditions
So unsettled are the conditions throughout the world that any opinion relating to trade and commerce, or the tendency of markets, must be accepted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Stack of Wheat at Rand
This huge stack of 42,000 bags of wheat is at Rand. The white strip at the base of the stack is a mouse-proof fence. The stack has since been roofed and hessian hung down the sides. The photograph was taken by Mr. B. Hogan, representative of a Victorian shipping and grain firm. The wheat will be trucked to Melbourne when required…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commercial Kyabram Sheep Sale 2685 Yarded, 2065 Cleared
Hinchliffe and Greed report having conducted their regular fortnightly sheep sale and the first sale of the season when they yarded 2658 fat and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Local and General Melbourne Wool Auctions
The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that the average price realised for greasy wool in Melbourne during the week ended 7th January, 1939, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →