Price of Wool Packs Increased CANBERRA
The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner (Mr. McCarthy) announced today that the price of new woolpacks had been advanced to 10/- per pack…
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Restriction Asked on Empire Wool Imports Washington
Australian Associated Press states that Mr. Frank Barrett, Republican member of the House of Representatives for Wyoming, testifying at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victorian Dairymen Experiencing Good Season Melbourne
Every branch of the Victorian dairying industry is experiencing one of its best seasons on record according [?] issued today by the State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →AGRICULTURAL & Pastoral Notes Control of Sheep Ked Departmental Experiments with D.D.T, and "666"
The sheep ked (Melophagus ovinus) can become a serious external parasite in the Ked areas of this State unless satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dust for Controlling Wheat Weevils
The use of mineral dusts for protecting wheat stored in bulk depots is described in Bulletin 199, just issued by the Council for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Violent Wind Overturns Sheep Vans at Henty
A dust and wind storm of cyclonic force struck Henty yesterday afternoon and ln the short period of Its duration, two sheep vans were overturned at the railway tracking yards. The sheep had just been uploaded…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Serious Derailment Nine Bulk Wheat Trucks Leave Line Extensive Damage to Track and Trucks
Probably the most serious derailment that has occurred in these parts took place at about 6.45 a.m. on Friday last, 10th inst…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Protecting Seed Wheat
Because of the failure of the wheat harvest and the shortage of seed for next season's sowing in New South Wales, a cereal specialist has urged…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Home Consumption Price of Wheat
Commenting on a statement of the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Pollard) that 20,000,000 bushels of wheat would be sent from South…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Provision for New Wheat Silos
The construction of new silos was urged in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. W. A. Chaffey (C.P., Tamworth), who criticised the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Keen Competition at Wool Sales SYDNEY
Under keen competition from Continental, United Stales and Yorkshire buyers, prices paid at to-day’s Sydney wool auctions were equal to the best…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Will Visit Australia for Wool Show SYDNEY
Edgar H. Booth, formerly warden of New England University College, Armidale, and now chairman of the International Wool Secretariat, London,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Flag Smut of Wheat Factors in Low Incidence This Season
The only flag smut infected crop observed in the course of recent surveys of the Biological Branch of the Department of Agriculture, was in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Like Oliver Twist! Dairymen Come Back for More SYDNEY
Payments of subsidy to milk producers would be considered, Premier McKell said today. He told a deputation from the Milk…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tasmanian Apple Crop Doomed by Hot Weather HOBART
The Tasmanian apple crop is expected to be only half the normal yield this year because heavy winter and spring rains have left thousands of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat [?] CANBERRA
Full effect of the Government’s wheat stabilisation plans would be nullified, should South Australian wheatgrowers reject the scheme, said the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Production Down CANBERRA
In the five months period from July 1 to November 30 last year butter production in Australia was only 56,118 tons compared with 58,136 tons…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jindera Poultry Farmer Fined
When Senior Constable Holder approached Robert Burns Wilson, poultry farmer of “Glen Ellen,” Jindera, in Mate st. concerning an alleged traffic…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mystery Deaths, of 500 Sheep Were Grazed in Park at Corowa
Mystery surrounds the deaths of [?] sheep In Ball Park, Corowa. A man who passed the park less than 24 hours after the sheep had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →100 Million Bushels Likely Wheat Deliveries This Harvest MELBOURNE
Deliveries of wheat to the Australian Wheat Board up to January II, 1947, total 64 million bushels, said the chairman (Sir Louis Bussau) at the…
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