Sales of Sheep Skins Sydney
Wool Selling Brokers’ Association reports that 57.371 sheep skins were offered for sale to-day. There was a strong demand for all lines at prices which…
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Wheat Standard Fixed Sydney
A standard per bushel of 63[?] lb was struck in the fair average quality for this season’s wheat grown in N.S.W. to-day, compared with 64[?] lb last year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hair Worm Cause of Trouble in Sheep
Most of the trouble in sheep during December was due to internal parasites and the one noted in all eases investigated was thesmall hair worm in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Big Cheque. Payments for Wool Clip
Value of the 145,000 bales of wool appraised from October to December was £25,299,147 in Australian currency. Average price of greasy wool…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Elderly Farmer Fatally Mauled by Pigs
A shocking tragedy occurred near Lalbert (Vic.) on Wednesday, when Mr. John Roberts, a resident of that district for more than 30 years, met…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Experimental Plot
Mr. J. P. Nield, of Oldham Park, Balranald, co-operated with the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture and conducted wheat and oat variety trials…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Commercial Polled Hereford Cattle for Central Australia
Messrs. E. and A. J. Hayes, of “Undoolya,” near Alice Springs, have completed the purchase of a draft of stud Hereford Polled bulls, and a number…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →204 Million Bushels Australia’s Big Harvest Still Too Much Wheat in the World Melbourne
The chairman of the Australian Wheat Board (Mr. Clive McPherson) stated to-day that it appeared that the Australian wheat crop for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pioneers of Riverina Development Of Pastoral Industry Purchasers and Prices of Stations Land Given In With Sheep And Cattle
The “Pastoral Times” of September 15, 1866, published some very interesting information regarding the pastoral pioneers of Riverina, and also a brief story concerning “King” Benjamin Boyd’s activities and his downfall. Written 73 years ago, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Deniliquin Sheep Sale
On Thursday, February 15, Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd. will yard 12,000 sheep and lambs at their Deniliquin sheep sale. Full particulars will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bush Fires Destroy Homes and Kill Many Sheep, Horses and Cattle Yass District Swept—Baby Born while Inferno Menaces House YASS
Many homes were destroyed; hundreds of sheep, horses, and cattle were burnt to death and miles of grassland have been laid waste by bush fires ragging in the Yass district, while three other towns—Binalong. Bowning and Barialda—are threatened on a 60-mile front…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Attempted Sabotage Wool for Britain Launceston
An attempt has been made to burn 3000 bales of wool consigned to the United Kingdom Government. The wool was in store on the wharf. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →[?]urning Back The Files . . . [?] Years Ago: (From the “Pastoral Times,” January 17, 1930)
[?]ZZLED OUT!— The Minister has [?]fied that no further action will be [?] residing the proposal that Mur[?] Shire should take over Moama…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Carry-over Prospect About 30,000,000 Bushels
The Minister for Commerce (Senator McLeay) said on Thursday that, although it now appealed that the wheat harvest would yield…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Items of News Sheep for Victoria from Northern N.S.W.
During the past few mouths the movements of stock from the Queensland border and northern central N.S.W. to Victoria have been fairly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Wheat 204,000,000 Bushels Expected Board Faces Shipping Problems
The chairman of the Australian Wheat Board (Mr. Clive McPherson) has announced that it appeared that the Australian wheat crop for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commercial To-day’s Sheep MARKET(Supplied by John McNamara and Co. Pty. Ltd.) NEWMARKET
Best sheep, 1/6 dearer. Others and lambs. up to 1/ dearer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?]O Wheat Acreage Restriction This Year Mr. Thorby on Position “Full of Difficulties” Sydney
The Australian wheat position was still full or difficulties, declared the deputy Federal Leader of the Country Party (Mr. Thorby)…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Dies After Attack by Pigs
Pigs attacked John Roberts, ager 78 years, fanner of Lalbert, near Gwan Hill on Saturday, inflicting such severe wounds that he died later…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairying Adequate Feeding Is Essential for Sustained Production
It is unfortunate, observes a note in the "Agricultural Gazette," that so many dairy farmers still cling to the idea that a big drop in production is…
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