Wool Bounty (To the Editor)
Sir, -- Your article in Friday's issue puts the case for the woolgrower in moderate language. It is proven that bounties and grants to primary…
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Wool Season. 800 Bales To The Railways
Wool loadings at Deniliquin railway station since the season opened in July total 800 bales. Among the stations loading are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Wheat Problem. New Relief Scheme. CANBERRA
The Federal Cabinet to-day decided upon a relief scheme for wheat growers, which will involve it directly in an expenditure of about two…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Turning Back The Files . . . 10 Years Ago: (From the “Pastoral Times,” July 30, 1929)
TRANSFERRED.—Mr. R. C. Bourke, postmaster at Mathoura, has been transferred to Port Kembla. BANKER PROMOTED.—Mr. A. C…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Industry Prepares For First Hot Weather Sales Talk In History
For the first time in its history, Australia’s wool industry is planning a summer campaign. Instead of slackening off their publicity at the end of August, as in previous years, wool interests will set out this year to convince…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying Industry. Finance for Herd Purchases Urged
Government aid for farmers in buying dairy cattle so that the Deniliquin butter factory could be re-established as an active industry was urged by Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Property Leased
Mr. W. Hawkshaw, formerly licensee of the Edward River Hotel, has leased Mr. T. McMahon’s farm. “Wilcot,” comprising about 600 acres at North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Affected By Wet Conditions, But Prospects For District Crops Still Good
Although abnormally wet wet conditions have affected early and late sown crops, the prospects for the wheat harvest generally in Western Riverina are particularly good, states Mr. T. P. Taylor, district agricultural instructor, in his monthly report…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bigger Returns in Sight. New Wool Clip Sheep Cutting Better
Shearing is now proceeding over a wide area of the New South Wales plain country and the new clip is arriving in fair quantities into…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unusual Sheep Condition
Some weeks ago, says the "Farmer and Settler", we mentioned an unusual condition discovered in some sheep running at Blayney, when post mortem…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sales of Sheep Skins Sydney
The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers’ Association report that 70,850 sheep skins were offered for sale to-day. The demand was not quite so keen, and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Public Preference For Lamb. Future of Aged Sheep Market
Graziers, taking the long view, ore expressing concern over future markets for aged sheep, having in mind the expansion of the fat lamb industry…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big American Wool Clip Washington, August 3
The Department of Agriculture estimates domestic wool production for 1939 at 375,699,000 lbs, the second largest shearing on record, representing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Limitation of Wheat Production Victorian Premier’s Attack Growers Consider Problems Commonwealth Will Assist Industry— Mr. Menzies DONALD (Vic)
General condemnation of the proposal that Australia should enter another international agreement for the limitation of wheat production was a feature of the address by Mr. Dunstan (Premier) at the gathering of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm at High School
At Thursday night’s meeting of the Parents and Citizens' Association of the High School, the agricultural teacher, Mr. E. D. Smiles reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Sale at Urana
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd, Corowa, Yarrawonga, and branches, and J. M. Smith and Co., Urana conjointly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Governments Must Do Something for Wheat-growers” Sydney
The president of the Farmers and Settlers Association (Mr. H.S. Henley M.L.C.) said that something must be done by the Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Supplies Larger New Season’s Clip Melbourne
Only 2716 bales of greasy and 5860 bales of scoured wool were sold in Australia during July, compared with 5069 bales of greasy and 2697 bates of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.S.W. Pottical Upheaval May Hold Up Talks on Wheat CANBERRA
The Premiers’ Conference, Which is set down for Melbourne later in this month, may be postponed because of the political situation in N.S.W…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Problem
The Australian Agricultural Council is meeting on the 11th August and will consider, the pressing problems of our primary industries. The…
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