The Farmer's Lot a Clever Parody
Under the spreading bankruptcy The farmer's homestead stands, Its lord, a mournful man is he, As he ploughs his mortgaded lands…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1940
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Warwick Farm Acceptor
MERRY SMILE, an acceptor for the Sefton Handicap at Warwick Farm to-morrow…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Valuable Free Booklet On Irrigation Farming
Irrigation practice in New South Wales, up to the present, has been confined to the well-known Murrumbidgee Irrigation Areas and to isolated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Increase in Wool and Sheep Figures. Best Lambing on Record in West
Further confirmation of the expectation that the State's sheep population has been heavily increased during the past year comes from the Graziers'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Tallangatta Butter Output
In December Tallangatta butter factory made 118 tons 15 cwt of butter, an increase of 45 tons compared with December, 1938. Output for the six…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ships, Wheat, Action!
One of the most important lessons the Commonwealth learned from the last war was that a nation whose economic stability depends to a great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sales of Sheep Skins Sydney
The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers’ Association reports that 84 287 sheep skins were offered for sale to-day. There was a strong demand for all…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Numbers of Sheep Sold at Wodonga Yards
Mr. G. Mitchell, sale yards inspector, reported to Wodonga Shire Council [?] week that revenue from the yards for December had been £126. and for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Huge Task. Wool to Clothe an Army
Wool offerings are shorn of their usual public interest at this time of the year, because there is now no uncertainty in regard to market trends…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Why Cotton? Wool Displaced in Australia by Government Departments
Although the world's greatest wool-producing country, Australia is officially supplanting wool with cotton and fabrics…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Great News” Big Wheat Sale Premier Mair Pleased. Millions of Bushels Involved Sydney, Friday. “Great news for wheatgrowers.”
This is how the Premier (Mr. Mair) to-day described the announcement that Great Britain had accepted the Australian Wheat Board’s offer for the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Keeping It Secret Price of Wheat For U.K. Minister Defends Silence Adelaide
Declaring that.it was in the best interests of farmers and Australians generally to remain silent, the Minister for Commerce (Senator McLeay)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fight Fire in Swimming Costumes Yesterday’s Outbreak on Albury Common 100 Sheep Perish in Flames Near Boree Creek
It took 150 men two hours to get under control a bush fire which had broken out in [?] country behind the Nallcan Hill on Albury Common…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Was Dairyman Murdered? Last Seen 16 Months Ago Sydney
It is now thought that Ernest Albert Avery, who has been missing for 16 months, was murdered. Avery, a dairyman al Merewether…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Deniliquin Sheep Sale
Among the entries already received for John McNamara and Co.’s special special sheep sale at Deniliquin on Thursday, January 25, are 3,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat for Pig Farmers Small Users' Dilemma
Reports that small consumers of wheat cannot obtain their requirements from local receiving agents of the Australian wheat pool, have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga Special Sheep Sale
YOUNGHUSBAND LIMITED, auctioneers, Wagga, report holding a special sheep sale at Wagga on January 5, when they yarded 15,000 sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Special Sheep Sale
Special attention is drawn to Messrs Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.’s big special sheep sale to be conducted at Deniliquin on Friday next, 19th…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wagga Special Cattle Sale
YOUNGHUSBAND LIMITED, auctioneers, Wagga, report holding a special cattle sale at Wagga on Monday last week, when they yarded 3,500…
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