Finley Sheep Sale
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. will yard 10,000 good quality store sheep at Finley on Thursday, April 13. The entries…
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Kiewa's Record Butter Production
At the half-yearly meeting of the Kiewa Butter Factory, the report indicated that the record manufacture butter for the six months ended…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Classing Characters Desirable in a Flock
The following desirable characters should be kept in mind when culling the flock:— 1. Good strong heads without…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Not Poisoned Sheep That Died on Stock Route
Evidence that the recent deaths of 486 sheep near Enngonia, on the stock route from Barringun down the Warrego Rive to Ford's Bridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Classing As a Means of Increasing Profits
However small the flock, it pays to class it perilously. The best time to class is just before shearing, as the sheep are then carrying a full fleece,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shearing Criticised “Detriment to Wool Trade”
Careless shearing in Australia, more particularly r in Queensland, is helping to spoil the market for Australian wool abroad, according to opinions expressed in “The Wool Record, and Textile World,” the official organ of the Bradford textile trade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Items of News Number of Sheep Din After Pasturing on Aerodrome
It was reported yesterday that about 150 of a lock of 3000 sheep had been found dead yesterday morning on the Albury aerodrome. They were left…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Turning Back The Files... 10 YEARS AGO:(From the “Pastoral Times,” April 5, 1929)
EAR INJURED. — When running in the old buffers race at the soldiers’ gymkhana on Monday, Mr. Harry Alphey fell, and his ear was almost torn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Six Ins. in Lockhart District 4500 Sheep in Danger Brocklesby Flooded Torrential Rain Falls 3½ inches in 1¼ HOURS Substantial Damage to Property; Railway Line Awash
Torrential rain which fell at Brocklesby yesterday afternoon flooded Main st. and Ellis road to a depth of 4ft. 6in. Within an hour and a quarter 3½ inches of rain had been recorded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Storage Charges
Sydney "Farmer and Settler" writes: "After March 31, storage will, be charged on the twenty million bushes of wheat now lying unsaleable…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Graziers' Association President's Report on Pastoral Interests
The 33rd annual general meeting of members of the Graziers' Association of Southern Riverina was held in Melbourne on Thursday last, when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Questions in the House Wheat Bounty
Captain Dunn: In the absence of the Minister for Agriculture, I ask the Premier whether It is a fact that the Minister promised In this House…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quality of 1938-39 F.a.q. Wheat
The quality of both bulk and bagged f.a.q. wheat this year was found to be particularly good, states a report by the Chief Chemist of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural Flag Smut of Wheat Controlled by Resistant Varieties
Flag smut, a disease which affects only wheat and does not occur on wild or cultivated grasses, was once a disease of considerale importance in this…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Junior Farmers'
The Junior Farmers Advisory Committee met at the school last night, there being present Messrs. J. Houston (in the chair), Newton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Storekeeper How He Helps the Farmer Trundle "Star" Hits Out
The Trundle "Star" taps its typewriter to say that some time ago a certain metropolitan newspaper circularised the F. & S. branches,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Killed with Separator Disc While Milking Cow Maori Farmer for Trial AUCKLAND—April 6
At tho Auckland Police Court, Paul Hadfield, aged 32, Maori farmer, was committed. for trial on a charge of the alleged mansinughter of his…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial Albury Wool Sales
At the wool sales held at Albury on March 30, Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report having passed the top line of JJW/ WALLANGRA/PARK, account Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Items of News Tallangatta Butter Factory Output
[?] March Tallangatta butter factory made 64 tons 6 cwt of butter, which is 28 tons more than the output for March, 1938. The present weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Prices Drifting Big Loss to Graziers Melbourne
The drift in wool prices is indicated in the monthly return of the National Council of Woolselling Brokers which shows that during March the average…
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