Wheat Yield May Reach 200 Million Bushels Sydney
According to estimates made in wheat trade quarters, the Australian wheat, yield this season will be between 135 million to 140 million…
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How to Make Whitewash Many Uses on the Farm
Obtain, if possible, large pieces of fresh lump lime, place them in a very large bucket or other suitable container, and into this pour hot water. Cold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Pastoral Times” Rainfall Record
To-day we publish our Rainfall Record from 1858 to 1945—a period of 86 years (omitting one Incomplete year) The Record has been officially…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sowing of Wheat Varieties Recommended for 1946
In I[?]ting in the current "Agricultural Gazette" the varieties of wheat which growers are recommended to sow in 1946, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Control of Bunt or Ball Smut in Wheat
Several reports have been received concerning the appearance of ball smut in wheat, states Mr. A. H. E. McDo[?]ld,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Chances for Settlement on the Murray Government Rice Farm Should Have to Be Used for Soldiers Sydney
When the Government rise farm at Wakool was established two years ago the area should have been survey then for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wool for Shawl for Mr Gandhi MELBOURNE
The retiring Governor of Bengal (Mr. R. G. Casey) recently asked the Australian Government for enough Australian wool to make Mahatma Gandhi a woollen shawl…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stabilising the Wheat Industry Federal Government’s Plans CANBERRA
4 five-point plan for the stabilisation of the Australian wheat industry is proposed by the Federal Government. In a statement…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →. Young Farmers’ Corner
Contributions are invited from young farmers, teachers connected with young farmer movements or any other interested party for inclusion in this…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£21 Million a Year on Farm Machinery
Although the United Kingdom now has seven tractors to very square mile of arable land, her formers are asking for still more…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Losses Heavy in NSW Drought SYDNEY
It is [?] that stock losses around Bourte in the far west of NSW exceed 2,000,000 head. In the grip of this drought graziers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Yield in NSW is Good SYDNEY
The official forecast of a 53,600,000 bushel wheat harvest was likely to be exceeded, said an official of the Department of Agriculture tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial Large Attendance at Cattle Sale Very Firm Sheep Market
The Associated Agents report having conducted their first sale for 1946 at the municipal yards yesterday, when they submitted a penning of 150 head…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Spray Sheep Dip
Recently a modern rotating power spray dip has been installed Clarendon Estate, Gretna, Tasmania. It is said to be the first used there. A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District Farmers Not Satisfied With Government’s New Wheat Scheme
Dissatisfaction at Government control of the wheat industry was expressed by Albury district wheat farmers last evening when the “Mall” sought representative opinions on the new wheat stabilisation plan…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Wheat Stabilisation Scheme
Federal Government’s wheat stabilisation plan represents another attempt to grapple with a problem of long standing which, during the war years was solved by applying guaranteed prices to this great national asset. Growers in that period reached a certain degree of security…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Delay in Receival of Wheat at Silos Obsolete Plant Blamed by Culcairn Farmers
A meeting of farmers, convened by the Culcairn branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, was held in the School of Arts to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Making Wheat Scheme Workable SYDNEY
Talks with wheatgrowers with the object of making a wheat stabilisation scheme possible are being arranged by the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finance to Britain Suggested Exchange of Wool New York
George Sokolsky, of the New York “Sun.” in discussing the projected United States loan to Britain, rays that Britain still holds a [?] of wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Yield May Exceed 35,000 Bags : Stack In Railway Yard
It will come as a surprise to many to learn that about 35,000 bags of wheat grown around Deniliquin will soon be stacked in the railway yard. The yield is surprising by reason of…
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