Farmers Get 13,000 P.O.W. SYDNEY
The Director-General of Manpower (Mr Wurth) said tonignt that 13,000 prisoners of war had been placed in rural work. Of this number 2290 were actually employed…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1944
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Luxuries for Dairymen “Tracto-Bovitus,” And Other Farm Ailments
History may not record the good deeds done by Mr. Mair, the politician, but surely he is deserving of immortality for his discovery of “TractoBovitus,” the new bug to keep the farmer poor. According to Mr. Mair, this bug better known as the American tractor, neither produces milk nor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Disaster Facing Some Victorian Farmers Melbourne
A major disaster for agriculture in the north-west of Victoria would develop un[?] rain fell very soon, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Trucks For Farm Produce SYDNEY
Half the farm produce of the Western district of NSW cannot be transported to distributing points became there are insufficient railway tracks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia's Wool Clip
MELBOURNE, Tuesday:" The Central Wool Committee has paid to producers through the wool selling brokers, the sum of £10,142,136 in respect…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wodonga Cattle Market To-day
Following is the order of sale tor today’s Wodonga cattle market: Farmers and Graziers, Dalgety and Co Ltd. New Zealand Loan, J. McNamara and Co…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Publicity and Research
At the annual meeting of the Australian Woolgrowers’ Council very full consideration was given to proposals in connection with the extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Starvation Kills 100,000 Sheep SYDNEY
In the far west of NSW approximately 100 000 sheep have died in the past 12 months, according to Mr A. J. Whittaker, stock and station agent, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat For India LONDON, July 3
Britain is arranging for the shipment of 400,000 tons of wheat to India before September 30. This is in addition to 400,000 tons of, grain, mainly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →British Wool Contract. Pacific Zone Position
The future of Australia’s wool could be better assessed if a Federal Government announcement was made as to whether the British contract extends to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →World Wheat Shortage Feared by U.S. Paper
The "Cargill Crop Bulletin," published in Minneapolis (U.S.A.), be lieves there will be a serious world shortage of wheat unless there is a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Turning Back The Files . . . 10 Years Ago: (From the “Pastoral Times,” April 17, 1934)
DEATH. — Mr. Charles Benjamin Jones died at his residence at Mosman. He was a former Deniliquin resident and was associated with Mr. A. B. Rae…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Commercial. To-day’s Sheep Market (Supplied by John McNamara and Co. Pty. Ltd.) NEWMARKET
The penning of fat sheep included a smaller representation of prime wethers from Western Victorian districts, but there was an increase in the supply…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Louse
Like the sheep “tick,” the sheep louse spends the whole of its life upon the host and does not leave it unless to transfer to another animal. This if can do very…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wodonga Cattle Market
The associated agents held their fortnightly cattle market at Wodonga yesterday, when they yarded 1130 cattle, comprising 387 fats, 453 stores, 108 choppers,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat. [?] Council Decisions
The [?] Federal Council at its meeting in Sydney decided to urge the Commonwealth Government to review the conditions of wheat growing in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Army Refuses Releases; Dairy-Cattle To Be Killed SYDNEY
Owing to manpower problems, dairy farmers in the Windsor district cannot carry on and herds in the area may eventually have to be killed for meat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Artificial Insemination of Cattle Canberra
Possibility of the introduction of methods of artificial insemination of cattle, which have proved successful overseas, will be investigated by the Council for Scientific…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Winter Shelter For Sheep Value of Trees
Insufficient provision for the shelter of stock is a weakness in the management of many pastoral holdings, and as a consequence there is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →“Wool---Australia’s Great Awakening.”
W. H. Mather, .Sydney Wool Consultant (Angus and Robertson Ltd., Sydney), tells Australians a host of facts about wool and our wool industry; the…
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