Handling of Wool Producers’ Associations in Accord SYDNEY
At the suggestion of the Australian Woolgrowers’ Council a conference was held in Melbourne this week between representatives of the Council and rep…
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Wheat Prices
The rates fixed by the Australian Wheat Board for N.S.W. wheat are: Millers’ lots for export and home consumption, bagged 4/0[?] for produce…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral and Agricultural Industries General Review of Position
Good rains occurred throughout Queensland, Northern Territory and the North Kimberley Division of Western Australia during February. Some…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Weekly Butter Report Production In All States on Decline MELBOURNE
The Australian Dairy Produce Board reports to-day that although light showers fell on the coast of Queensland the weather was generally fine and butter…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Practical Cattle Breeding New Developments in America Help the Breeder in Selecting His Stock
Several years have elapsed since the dairy cattle breeding world was amazed by news of record productions established by American dairy cows…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bacteria Are Essential Valuable Work is Done for the Farmer
Actually the losses which bacteria and fungi bring about through disease are more obvious than the good they do, so that a bad name sticks to them…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer Charged With Careless Use of Fire TRAFALGAR
A fine of £6 was Imposed today on Albert Ernest Thurlow, a well-known farmer, of Yarragon, who was convicted of having lit a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheatgrowers Seek 3/10 a Bushel Farmers Need Cash Urgently MELBOURNE
A resolution urging the Federal Government to make a further advance to bring payment for the 1939-40 crop to 3/10 a bushel, seaboard, was carried…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Henty Farmers and Settlers’ Association Dam For Travelling Stock Proposed MR. J. Klemke Secretary for His 22nd TERM
Mr K. E. Morison presided at the annual meeting of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association at Henty. The Southern Riverina County Council…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Week in Bond Street MELBOURNE
The International Wool Secretariat has capped its recent efforts for wool publicity by holding a Road Street Wool Week this month,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Rationing Farce Margarine Coming Into Favor Traders Attacking the Position London, March 29
Traders throughout Britain are attacking the “farce” of butter rationing, which is resulting in stocks piling up in warehouses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Young Farmers’ Clubs Appreciation of Mr. W. H. Ellwood Melbourne
At to-day’s meeting of the Council of the Victorian Young Farmers’ Clubs Association, the chairman (Mr. Bacon) reported that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bitten by Cattle Dog
On Tuesday afternoon, Gordon Ritchie, two-year-old son of Mr and Mrs: Alex Ritchie, of the Mossgiel Post Office, were returning home from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial To-day’s Sheep Market (Supplied by John McNamara and Co. Pty. Ltd.) NEWMARKET
Sheep and lambs, easier to 1/ lower. Stores, firm…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmhand Found Dead at Mulwala Yesterday Pea-Rifle Near Body Girl’s Story of Man By Her Bed
With a bullet wound in the temple and a pea-rifle lying nearby, by the body of Thomas George Alford, aged 24, single, farmhand,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bradford Wool Tops Market Bradford, April 1
Improved facilities are being provided for the export of yarns after a period of rather severe restrictions. It is difficult to plan new businesses for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →600,000 Bales of Wool Clip Still to Be Appraised Big Increased Consumption Expected in America SYDNEY
About 600,000 bales, or 18 per cent of the current Australian wool clip remain to be appraised before June 30, stated Winchcombe…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Irrigation Farming. With Special Reference to [?] and Berriquin irrigation [?] Check Banks and Irrigation Bays
Check banks are small banks constructed at intervals in the direction of the fall to control the flow of water over the land. They should…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter, Margarine and Dripping
Considerable anxiety is being felt by people associated with the dairying industry in Australia and New Zealand, as well as in other…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hospital Gymkhana Sheep Appeal
A reminder is given concerning the Sheep Appeal launched by the Hospital Gymkhana in connection with its annual effort…
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