Hay Farmers Against Saturday Half Holiday
Country people in the Hay district have expressed disappointment of the Saturday half -holiday. Some years ago business people gave the week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1946
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Record Crops Expected in America WASHINGTON
Agricultural officials estimate that the corn crop will be a record and that near record crops of wheat, oats, potatoes and rice will be harvested this year. The…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Auctions on October 2 MELBOURNE
Wool auction sales, suspended during the war, will be resumed in Sydney on September 2. The first Melbourne sales will begin on September…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Helping The Farmer Of Tomorrow Hume Council’s Decision
Proposal by Cr Webb at Hume Shire Council meeting yesterday to give a prize for a Junior Farmers’ agricultural competition met with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →That £7,000,000 Wool Grab?
Federal Cabinet’s decision to divert £7,000,000. of the profits made from the sale of Australian wool into a special fund for research, publicity and other avenues for the benefit of the industry generally will be contested on the ground that such a sum is excessive. Growers do…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drought Hits Queensland Nearly Two Million Sheep Dead BRISBANE
Nearly 2,000,000 sheep have died in the south west, as a result of drought conditions, and others are being shorn in paddocks because they are too…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Scheme Cowra Farmer's View
Many farmers do not seem to know that under the Scully pian the Federal Government has stabilised wheat price for five years…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wodonga Cattle Market
There will be a yarding of 699 fat cattle, 205 droppers, 6 bulls, 506 store cattle and 154 dairy cattle, at today's Wodonga cattle market. Order of sale is: Younghusband…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Only Tenth of Wheat Crops Show Promise."
Only about one tenth of the New South Wales, wheat crop showed, reasonable promise at present, the cereal specialist of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sale of 2000 Cattle
A final reminder is given by Messrs. Younghusband Ltd. of their sale at Deniliquin Yards next Friday of 2000 Hereford bullocks and steers. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Oats on the Wheat Farm. Value 48 Conserved Fodder
Oats excel as conserved fodder either as silage, hay or grain, points out an article in the current "Agricultural Gazette" on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Central Queensland Cattle Trek to Hay for Agistment
Except for a few isolated instances, it is some years since this district has been able to accept stock for agistment. However, it appears that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →C.P. Move Against Wheat Bill Wants Measure Withdrawn And Redrafted CANBERRA
A move to have the Wheat Stabilisation Bill withdrawn and redrafted will be made by the Opposition in the House of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Schools For, Junior Farmers Planned
As soon as adequate staff was available at the various State experimental farms, schools Would be held for junior farmers and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairymen At Wodonga Annual Meeting Held
The annual meeting of the Wodonga branch of the VDA was well attended. The president (Mr Pollard) reported a satisfactory year. It was pleasing to note…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →“Air Force Ploughed Crop Under” Compensation Claim By Yerong, Creek Landowners
When the Royal Australian Air Force look over 320 acres of land from Messrs L. T. And A. K. Menzies at Yerong Creek in July, 1943, portion of the land was under crop. This was ploughed in, the fences were taken down and shade trees on the property grubbed out…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wodonga Cattle Market
The Associated Agents selling in the following order—Younghusband Ltd., Dalgety and Co. Ltd., J. McNamara and Co. Ltd., J. D. Turner and Co., Farmers and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mannequin Parade at Sheep Show
Final decision has been made to conduct a mannequin parade and display of woollen goods in conjunction with the Albury Sheep Show on August 6…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fat Sheep and Lamb Sales Melbourne
Competition for fat lambs at Newmarket today was very spirited, especially for woolly lambs and this season’s drop, values being 2/ to 3/ over last Tuesday’s rates…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Glass Wool for Mattresses Sydney
Glass so finely spun that it resembles wool is the latest filing proposed by an American firm for mattresses…
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