Farmer's Utopia
A Victorian farmer, about to retire, decided to make a four of eastern Australia to find the "ideal spot." After travelling up and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1947
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Wangaratta Sheep Market
At the Wangaratta sheep market on Thursday there was a very satisfactory yarding of fat sheep, which met with good competitions. Prime sheep showed a rise in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wagga Cattle Market Wagga
The Associated Agents of Wagga report having held their usual fortnightly cattle sale today. Only fat cattle were offered on account of Wagga Cup meeting. A total…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →WHEAT “ All Restrictions Must Go”
The Australian Wheatgrowers’ Federation, at its recent meeting in Sydney, struck hard at the Federal Government’s Wheat Stabilisation Scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →United States Is Biggest Single Buyer Of Wool
An analysis of figures released by the Acting Commonwealth Statistician reveals that 79 per cent of the wool exported during the first half of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Take Land From Bad Farmers”
Farmers who allowed their land to be ruined by erosion should have it taken from them, Mr. H. Hanslow, a Victorian Rivers and Water Supply…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Commercial Special Sheep Sale
At Albury yesterday Younghusband Ltd, in conjunction with Goldsbrough Mori Ltd., conducted a very successful store sheep sale when a total of 18,000 were penned…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Smuggled Gold Dust In Cans Of Butter LONDON
Smugglers over a period of six months have transferred £100,000 worth of stolen gold from The Rand to India by the “rancid butter” trick, says the Daily Express correspondent in Johannesburg. The smugglers opened tins of butter imported from India,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Last Wool Sale Of Season Next Month Total Of £2,000,000 Handled By Brokers
It is calculated that when the last wool sale at Albury closes next month 95,000 bales of wool, valued at approximately £2,750,000, will have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →“Thought She Had Been Struck by Lighting” Farmer On Intent To Murder Charge MELBOURNE
Evidence that when Mrs Muriel Elizabeth Davies, of Drouin, was admitted to the Eye and Ear Hospital on March 29 she was found to have…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To–day’s Sheep Market
MESSRS. JOHN McNAMARA & GO. report to–day's Newmarket sales as follows:— Market supplied by 250 railway tracks…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Classing Farmers' Wool Clips To Meet Present-Day Requirements
The wartime appraisement scheme under which the British Government acquired Australia's wool clip was terminated soon after the end of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain Walks Out of Wheat Meeting
A STIR has been caused at the withdrawal of Britain from the London international wheat conference…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Successful Fortnightly Sale Increased Prices for Store Sheep
JOHN McNAMARA & CO PTY LTD. report their fortnightly Stock Sale held on Thursday. The yarding comprised 3,000 fat and store sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drought Relief Grants to Cereal Growers 1940-47 Season's Crops
Forms of application, to enable wheat, oat and barley growers to apply of payment of grants from the amount of £1,500,000 to be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Victoria's Tobacco Crop
Harvesting of Victoria's tobacco crop from the 1946 planting is nearing completion. The Minister of Agriculture, Mr. W. G. McKenzie, MLA…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tasmanian Apple Crop Down Hobart
Assessment of the [?] apple [?] by the Apple and Pear Board last year disclosed [?] on the tree, but this season it is doubtful whether there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Britain’s Flood-stricken Farmers
The farmers of Britain are making impressive efforts to get their flooded lands back into cultivation. It is evident however, that if the heavy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →£1200 Damages for Henty Farmer Wife’s Alleged Adultery Sydney
A 30-year-old farmer from [?] [?] awarded £1200 damages [?] a 65-year-old man in the Divorce Court today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wodonga Cattle Market
The Associated Agents selling in the following order—Farmers and Graziers’ Co-op Co Ltd, Goldsbrough Mort and Co Ltd, Younghusband Ltd, 3. D. Turner, New…
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