Alternate Crop for Wheat Districts Dried Peas for Canning
The Defence Food Control Directorate is prepared to enter into contracts with NSW. growers for 1000 ton, of Blue Prussian or Tasmanian Blue pea[?] at [?]/ per…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1942
1,388 stories in Murray's papers · page 23 of 70
This Year’s Wheat
The Minister for Commerce, the Hon. W. J. Scully, announced last week that the Wheat Industry [?]bilization Board had considered the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Allegations Against Wheat Buyers SYDNEY
The Federal Government will be asked by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr Du[?]n) [?] make inquiries into allegations that some wheat buyers are taking advantage of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Worm Parasites of Sheep Problems of War-time Control
Two serious difficulties have arisen regard to control of worm parasite[?] of sheep since the war. First, many drugs ore in short supply and may…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Butter Production Falls
Butter production in Australia during January decreased heavily, the total output of all factories being 259,531 cwt., compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Death of Wheat Expert
A valuable contribution to wheat economy was one of the achievements of Dr. G. P. Darnell Smith, who died in Sydney last week at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Conversion of Old Wheat Land to Pasture
In wheat districts the use of clovers for restoring fertility to depleted and eroded soils is becoming popular. The common…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Reduced Sixpence a Bushel SYDNEY
The Australian Wheat Board has made a reduction of 6d per bushel in the price of wheat for the produce trade. This was announced today by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes Blowfly Control and Labour Shortage Classing of Flocks is Helpful
The classing of a flock on lines of general commercial usefulness will remove automatically a very large proportion of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News for Farmers Failure To Starve Out Britain
Hitler boasted that he could starve out Britain; It is the farmer's job to see that he can’t I think you will be Interested to get some sketches of the farmer at his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record Sheep Numbers
Arrivals of wool from the country in Australia to date season show a small increase compared with a year previously, a fact that is some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →When Feeding Silage to Sheep
When feeding silage to sheep, it need only be thrown over a clean piece of ground, but is should be well spread out it is better to get a good…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Conversion of Old Wheat Land to Pasture
In wheat districts the use of clovers for restoring fortuity to depleted eroded soils is becoming popular. The common procedure is to sow…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Turning Back The Files 10 Years Ago: “(From the “Pastoral Times,”(April 8, 1932)
GOLDEN-WEDDING.—At Mathoura on March 30, Mr. and Mrs. George Thake celebrated their golden wedding. They were married at the Methodist…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shearing Regulations Zoning System Introduced The National Security (shearing of sheep) regulations have been issued
The State is divided into several zones, in each of which shearing must be conducted in accordance with the schedules set in the regulations. Subject to the regulations a person…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Skin Sales. Sydney
Completion was good for 52,143 sheep skins offered for sale today, and prices ruled very firm at last sale day's best rates. Quotations: Merino, three-quarters to full…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Blowfly Combination of Methods Necessary for Control
No satisfactory single method of control is ever likely to be evolved that will solve the sheep blowfly problem, points out an article in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Improved Wool Trading New York. April 23
Wool trading improved generally last week. and. although there, was no upsurge 111 business, there was activity In a number of directions, according to a report by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat to Drive Cars "Bushel Equal to Three Gallons of Petrol" MELBOURNE
[?]uming of wheal Instead of charcoal has been proved successful in providing fuel for motor vehicles, by Mr. M. J. Martin, chemical engineer…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Pastoral Award Chief Variations Set Out
Proceedings which were instituted by the Graziers’ Association of N.S.W. and by the Australian Workers’ Union for variations of the Federal Pastoral…
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