Wool Clip Sent by Rail, 22,165 BALES. Big Increase On Last Year
Although most of the big sheds have cut out the general shearing, deliveries of wool to the Deniliquin railway station are being consistently maintained…
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Hay Junior Farmers' Club Meeting of Committee
At the September meeting of the Hay Junior Farmers'. Club Advisory Committee, there were present : Messrs. J. Alan Gibson (president),…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Relief for Farmers. Mr. Lawson Questions Minister
In the Legislative Assembly on Tuesday, Mr. Lawson (Murray) asked the Minister for Agriculture (Major, Reid) if Cabinet had yet decided the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Collect These Sheep, Please
Weight of a sheep donated to the big carnival yesterday by Mr. Fred Griffiths of Toonallook, was 207 lbs. Nearest guess was made by Cpl. Marshall,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Market Sydney
A steady trade was [?] in wheat for the produce trade to-day. Export inquiry was quiet. Rates fixed by the Australian Wheat Board were: Millers’ [?] for home…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Lighter in Condition Melbourne
As wool was generally lighter in condition and was showing thinness, and possibly tenderness, it had not been appraised as highly as last year,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers Clamoring For Work MELBOURNE
Large numbers of farmers are clamoring for work at munition factories [?] tide them over the drought, but in many [?] as a means of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Japanese Rice Crops Decrease of 29,000,000 Bushels Expected TOKIO, October 3
The Ministry of Agriculture forecasts that the 1940 rice harvest will [?] bushels, a decline of [?] bushels. The Ministry said…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Great Year Eskdale Butter Factory
At the 36th annual meeting of shareholders of Eskdale butter factory. Mr. M. P. Larkin (chairman) expressed pleasure in having to report a most…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Consumption of Wool America Can Help MELBOURNE
The chairman of the Australian Wool Board (Sir Dalziel Kelly) said to-day that if the consumption of wool [?] head of population in America could…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Die After Cold Change
As a set off to the benefits of the recent rains, some serious losses were occasioned amongst newly-shorn sheep in Finley district. The sudden cold change…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Cattle Yards Tenders to Be Called
With the raising of the necessary loan (£2,000) finalised, tenders are to be called immediately by Deniliquin Council for the construction of new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Gaoled for Two Years Butter Factory Robbery Sequel Melbourne
Two days after 44 boxes of butter, valued at £173. had been stolen from the Birregurra butter factory, wireless, patrol police found 31 boxes of butter…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Turning Back The Files... 10 Years Ago : (From the “Pastoral Times,” September 30, 1930)
EYE INJURED. — Stewart Perrin, aged 13, had his eye seriously injured at the Intermediate High School on Friday, when a glass flask exploded…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial To-day’s Sheep Market (Supplied by John McNamara and Co. Pty. Ltd.) NEWMARKET, Tuesday. Sheep, lambs and stores; easier. Younghusband’s Echuca Market
Younghusband Ltd report:— Sheep.—A large yarding of both fat and store sheep forward. Sucker lambs comprised the bulk of the fat section…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers’ Troubles Mr. Mair’s Remedies
Speaking at a meeting of Culcairn District Council of the Farmers and Settlers’ Association at Culcairn yesterday, the Premier (Mr. A…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Urana Farmer’s Loss. CATTLE [?]
In the County [?] recently, Judge [?] William Robert [?] Urana in his claim [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →[?] of Sale of Wool to Britain Emphasised Sydney
[?] Carson Ltd., in a re[?] points out that the advantage of [?] of the whole of the wool clip [?] the British Government had become…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Farm Home Control of White Ants Protective Treatment of Timber
The most effective liquid in general [?] for the treatment of timber to prevent white ant attack is coal tar creosote oil the effectiveness of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fat Cattle Sales
At Newmarket yesterday 1550 head of fat bullocks were yarded, an increase of 135 head on last week. The quality was very good, and the market…
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