Self-Sown Wheat
In the 1942/43 season, because ol the peculiar climatic conditions there has been more self-sown wheat than usual in some areas…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1943
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Wodonga Fat Sheep and Lamb Market
The associated agents report having held their fortnightly fat sheep and lamb sale to Wodonga yesterday, when they yarded 1596 fat sheep and lambs. The…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat at New High Level Chicago, February 16
One car load of wheat was sold for 160 cents a bushel today, the highest price since 1928. Wheat futures reached 140 cents. Other grains advanced in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes Not Just for Duration Post-War Need for Agricultural Committees
"The war is doing disturbing things to farming, but it is imperative that what is happening should be viewed as…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Estimate of Citrus Crop Yield Sydney
An official forecast issued today of the coming citrus fruit crop estimates a yield of 2,032.000 bushels of oranges, 359,000 bushels of mandarins, 158,000 bushels of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Stud Sheep Sales to Be Held
Miss Maria Ryan has returned to At a recent meeting of the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' Association it was decided to conduct the Annual Stud…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grazing Lucerne Sow with Wheat for Cheapness
As a means of establishing [?]erne cheaply, sowing with wheat can be recommended in districts w[?] the [?] [?]age annual rainfall is 20 [?] or…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →India Expects Big Food Crop LONDON
General Wood, secretary of the Ind[?] Food Department, said today that the food position in India was as much easter than a month ago. India…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →500,000 Helpers Ne[?]ded to Harvest Britain’s Crop LONDON, February 17
The Minister of Agriculture (Mr Hudson) said in a speech today: “Atleast 500,0000 helpers are needed to harvest the crops in 1943. The harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To Fix Wages in Dairying Industry Canberra
Immediate action will be taken to refer to the Arbitration Court the question of wages In the dairying Industry. The Minister for Labor tonight announced this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Production Will Be Up Sydney
Referring to reports that suppliers to an inland butter factory had decreased from 265’ to 63. a dairying authority today declared that NSW [?]ary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Farmer Killed
A Ryan farmer Joseph Gabriel [?] aged 51, was killed when he fell from a train at North Essendon early on Saturday afternoon. Bounce,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Helping Farmers Mortgage Bank Bill Supported By Mr. McEwen
For the third time starting the past four years a bill to [?] a [?] [?] was [?] to the [?] parliament on Thursday last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Turning Back The Files... 10 Years Ago: (From the “ Pastoral Times,” February 17, 1933.)
WATER SCHEME .— Messrs, F. H. Brewster and Whettam, engineers of the water Commission, arrived on Tuesday to make preliminary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial To-day’s Sheep Market (supplied by John McNamara and Co Pty. Ltd.) NEWMARKET
Sheep, 1/dearer. Lambs, 1/to 2/ dearer. THURSDAY’S STOCK SALE On Thursday, February 25, the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?] Old Up in Wheat Payments
In the [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cheap Feed Wheat. Practically Equal to F.A.Q.
Owing to weather conditions during the wheat harvesting period, a fairly considerable quantity of wheat was harvested in a condition not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Leguminous Crops Inoculation of Seed
Leguminous plants (peas, beans, clovers, trefoils, lucerne, etc.) normally grow in association with nitrogenous-fixing bacteria which form nodules or swellings on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Grazing Lucerne Sow With Wheat for Cheapness
As a means of establishing lucerne cheaply, sowing with wheat can be recommended in districts where the average annual rainfall…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes to Win the War Food...and More Food
"Food is a weapon of total war fully as important as guns, planes and tanks...Already it is taking a lot of food to fight the War…
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