Wool Appraisements Average Price 13.89d
MELBOURNE, Friday: Since the resumption of the wool appraisements in January, 331,269 bales have beer, appraised. The total…
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News of the Week WHEAT F.A.Q. Standard Fixed
The Chamber of Commerce this week fixed the f.a.q. standard of wheat at 64¼lbs. Last year the standard was 631bs…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bread Rationing Not Likely Australia Has Big Wheat Stocks MELBOURNE
Commenting on “propaganda” in a number of trade and political journals intimating Urn bread rationing would come to Australia, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Change of Diet for Farmer at Osborne Wells
A farmer out Osborne Wells way who has lately been "batching," was saved the necessity of killing a sheep at a recent week-end by noticing a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers Oppose Graziers’ Meat Price Plan SYDNEY
Declaring that the meat price plan of the Graziers’ Federal Council was definitely dangerous, the general secretary of the Framers and Settlers’…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Blowfly Breed Plain-bodied Sheep
Blowfly strike in sheep does not occur, by chance, nor is it related, except in a very, minor way, to the health of the sheep. It has been definitely…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Skin Sales Sydney
At the sheep skin sales today. 61,823 were offered. Best descriptions sold at Unchanged rates, but the market for other grades was generally a farthing a lb lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Record Prices for Wool
A record price for Merino greasy wool and the highest since the commencement of appraisement was realised in the centre on Thursday when 23¼d was obtained…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Wheat Yields Reported SYDNEY
Good yields had been recorded in most of the wheat growing districts of NSW and the grain sample, with a few exception was well finished and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers Want Land Army Girls SYDNEY
Farmers at Batlow, Camden. Griffith Cowra, Young and Yenda were asking for over 200 additional Land Army girls, said the NSW Manpower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hint of Smaller Butter Ration SYDNEY
The dairying industry is causing concern to the Federal and State authorities and the Australian Agricultural Council on Monday will discuss the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wodonga Cattle Market
The following is the order of sale at today’s Wodonga cattle market: Younghushand, McNemara, Dalgety, Goldsbrough Mort, New Zealand Loan, Gippsland and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Ration May Be Cut CANBERRA
It was hinted in Canberra tonight that representations might soon be made to the Federal Government to reduce the Australian butter ration…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Million Bales of Wool In SYDNEY
Winchcombe Carson Ltd, in a report issued today, revealed that the quantity of wool received at NSW appraising centres this season was now…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial. To-day’s Sheep Market. (Supplied by John McNamara and Co. Pty. Ltd.) NEWMARKET
Competition steady with values firm for best quality fat ewes and wethers. Secondary descriptions easier. Larger yarding of fat lambs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To the Editor. Unpayable Price of Wool Ten Shillings’ Worth in a Ten- Pound Suit
Sir,—In your issue of 10th Inst., in a report of a meeting held at the Technical College, Mr J. E. Jelbart is reported as having said : “In his opinion, the best…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bigger Oat Crop Wanted CANBERRA
Guaranteed returns for oat production without restriction on acreage sown, were urged tonight by the Australian Agricultural Council as a means of increasing oat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Mechanisation For Farms SYDNEY
I more general adoption of the mech[?] plan for which the State Government [?] had to date provided £125,000 free of interest would so much to increase…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Overcoming Farm Man-power Shortage Emergency Labor Camp Proposed CANBERRA
Formation of an emergency rural labor corps from which could be switched to meet the needs of any rural industry suffering an acute labor shortage was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Food Value of Fodder Crops. Maize, Sorghum, Japanese Millet, Sudan Grass, Cow, Cane
These five fodder crops are widely used in N.S.W., and, whilst their many good points are well recognised, insufficient recognition is given to their…
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