Flood of Cattle to U.S. Markets Meat Prices Dropping New York
A week after lifting of controls the rush of cattle to the markets is so heavy that livestock centres are jammed to capacity and a shortage of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1946
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Farm Water Supplies Legislation Assists Individual Landholders
The objects of the Farm Water Supplies Act, 1946, which came into force on the 9th August last, are to enable individual farmers or groups…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Cattle Sales
Gippsland and Northern Co-op. Co. Ltd report having conducted their annual spring sales of store cattle in their Tallangatta and Corryong yards on the 15th and 17th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Crop of 123 Million Bushels Forecast
The marketable quantity of Australian Wheat from the 1946-47 harvest is estimated by Sir Louis Bussau, chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Buckargingah And Bucki Surplus Sheep
Attention of farmers is drawn to the advertised particulars in this issue of the special off-shears sale of Buckargingah and Bucki surplus sheep, to be…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →State To Import Wheat
New South Wales, usually a big exporter of wheat, will have to import from other parts of Australia possibly 10 million bushels as a result of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Not True Cattle Ticks SYDNEY
South Australian and Northern Territory officials have now established that ticks found at Alice Springs some time back belonged to a harmless species…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Fat Sheep Sale At Henty
Farmers and Graziers Co Ltd, in conjunction with J H Wehrman & Co, Henty. report holding last Monday, a special sale of fat sheep and lambs,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Dog's 180 Miles Trip Home
A story of the amazing sagacity, homing sense and tenacity of an 18-months-old sheep dog is related by Mr. C. Imeson, of Grafton. He stated…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Exports Doubled SYDNEY
Wool exports from Australia for the three months ended September last more than doubled the amount shipped during the same three months of last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dalgety’s Wool Offering in Melbourne
Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Ltd., Albury have received the following telegram from their Melbourne office reporting on wool in that centre: “Offered 2800 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Losses Blizzard Kills Newly-shorn Sheep Sydney, Thurs
Heavy losses are expected among newly-shorn sheep on the Southern Tablelands since last night’s snow storm…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland Faces Bread Famine Wheat Stocks Exhausted Brisbane, Thurs
Because of the wheat shortage Queensland would face the possibility of a bread famine before the end of the year, said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Prices Cost-Plus Method To Be Used WASHINGTON
Dealers in imported Australian, New Zealand and South African wool will be permitted to continue to use the cost plus mark up method they…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Strikes Cause Postponement of Albury Wool Sales Buyers Decide Not To Attend
Wool sales set down for Albury and Adelaide next week have been postponed following a decision of the Victorian and South Australian Woolbuyers’ Association not to attend. The woolbuyers’ association embraces practically all buyers who attend the Albury auctions…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hay Junior Farmers
Present at the October meeting of the Junior Farmers' Advisory Committee, were Messrs. Bray (president), Houston, Mackie, Watson,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers & Settlers' Association. District Council Meeting
The October meeting of the District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held at Balldale on 14th inst, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rutherglen Experiment Farm Farmers' Field Day on November 1
The principal demonstration at the Farmers' Field Day at the Rutherglen Experiment Farm on Friday, November 1, will be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Loss Through Neglect of Farm Machinery
farms is that due to neglect of farm machinery. Such loss takes place in many ways. It may be put down to three chief causes:--…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sales of Sheep Skins Sydney
There was a good demand for 52.485 sheep skins offered for sale today, and prices ruled at par to [?] and at times ½d a lb dearer…
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