Same Old Stories for the [?] ENGLISH! “Boomer[?] farms” — “Kangaroo Ranches” Our Airmen Popular with the Girls London, December [?]
Border Morning Mail · Monday 1 January 1940 · page 1
Australian airmen are telling the [?] old stories about “kangaroo [?] and “boomerang farms,” which were told in the last war by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Choicest Cream Some “Dont’s” for Dairy Farmers
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 2 January 1940 · page 4
The following advice was given to a gathering of dairy farmers by the manager of a North Coast factory some years ago and it is still sound—every…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fire in Wheat Crop 25 Acres And 80 Bags Of Wheat Lost
The Pastoral Times · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3
Believed to have been caused by a spark from the exhaust of a tractor used in the stripping of a crop a fire an Saturday afternoon last in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Breeding and Management
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4
The chief aim of cattle breeding, said the assistant headmaster of the Department of Agriculture, in a recent address to farmers, was to improve the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shade Trees for Sheep
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 5
It is at this time of the year that the value of shade trees in the sheep paddocks becomes evident. There is no question that during the hot…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial Wagga Special Sheep Sale
The Pastoral Times · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1
Younghusband Limited will yard 15,000 high class sheep at Wagga on Friday next. All sheep will be carefully drafted and sold in lines to suit…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Weather-damaged Wheat Suitability For Seed
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4
Excessive rain when wheat crops are ripening or ripe often leads to certain defects in the grain. These defects might be described as stages of the one…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →4,000 Cattle to Be Solo at Wagga
The Pastoral Times · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 1
A special sale of 4,000 splendid quality cattle at Wagga on Monday next, is advertised to-day by Younghusband Ltd. As cattle of all classes are scaree…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Process for Making Wool “Unshrinkable”
The Pastoral Times · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research will shortly publish a full account of a new and relatively simple process for rendering wool…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Pulpy Kidney” of Sheep a Disease of Good Seasons
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 5
Entero-toxsemla, or “pulpy kidney,” Is a serious disease which affects sheep of all classes, and of different ages, but which is more prevalent in lambs and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Turning Back The Files . . . 10 Years Ago: (From the “Pastoral Times,” January 3, 1930)
The Pastoral Times · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 2
FIRE — Bush’s Stores bakehouse, at Moulamein, was destroyed by fire on Saturday. HOSPITAL APPEAL. — From…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →50,000 Tons of Butter Produced in N.S.W. SYDNEY
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 6
Butter production for the year ended June last amounted to 50,822 tons, of which 12,122 tons were exported. Chinese production was about 3200 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Theft of Wool Alleged Accused Sentenced to Six Months’ Imprisonment
The Berrigan Advocate · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3
At the Wangaratta General Seasons, before Judge Foster, Rona[?] Bernard Dow and Harold Clifford Wigg were charged with having…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kill Three Sheep and Lose One Plane Raid on the Shetlands Germans’ Bad Day London, January 2
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 6
Hostile aircraft were sighted over the Shetland Islands this morning and two bombs were dropped…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rotation of Crops Value in Vegetable Production
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 5
It is surprising that growers do not [?] more than value of an efficient rotation system, observers the departmental instructor, in vegetable…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Invites Weed Invasion Mischief of Specialised Cropping
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4
All weeds require special conditions if they are to thrive. Such conditions, states a booklet on weed control just issued by the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Albury Man’s Invention Should Aid Farmers
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4
Mr. Thomas McDougall, of 488 Parkinson street, Albury, has a patent which might provide the nucleus of a new industry for Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crop Exceeds Estimate in S.A. ADELAIDE
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 4
Unofficial estimates place this season’s wheat yield for South Australia at 38,000,000 bushels, or 5,000,000 bushels above the latest official assessment…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers Requests “Cold Shouldered” Sydney
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 3 January 1940 · page 3
The Postal Department has replied to a number of resolutions carried by the last conference of the Farmers and Graziers’ Association, but has…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Synthetic Fibre Becomes Wool Industry Enemy No. 1 Manufacturing Progress Develops Serious Menace to Sheep Industry. Report Discloses Alarming Position
Jerilderie Herald and Urana Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1940 · page 4
The Premier (Mr. Mair), who has interested himself in the growth of synthetic wool products for several years, views with concern their…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →