Breeding Grounds of Sheep Blowflies
The importance of live sheep as against carcasses as breeding grounds for primary sheep blowflies is stressed in a bulletin issued by the C.S I.R…
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Breeding Ground For Sheep Blowflies
The importance of live sheep as against carcasses as breeding grounds for primary sheep blowflies is stressed in Bulletin 217, just…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Albury Wool Selling Season Opens
Buyers and growers gathered in the Wool Exchange for the first auction in the Albury wool selling season. Twelve thousand bales were catalogued, and according to one estimate, based on sales in other centres the wool is worth between £400.000 and £500,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Sells Well At Albury
At Albury wool sales, which concluded yesterday, Mr. A. J Ross, of “Hillside,” Little Billabong, near Holbrook, received 59½d. for super type Merino wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mules Operation Praised By Wool Board
In the opinion of the Australian Wool Boards the modified Mules operation as a safeguard against blowfly strike is the greatest single…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£75,000 Fire Damage at Wool Plant
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Damage estimated at £75,000 was caused by fire in the wool carbonising factory and wool store of F. W. Hughes Pty. Ltd., of Botany,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Balldale Farmers & Settlers' Association
A general meeting of the above was held in the hall on Wednesday, 17th September. This senior vice-president, Mr. J. Poole,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Soviet Outbids Britain For Danes’ Butter
COPENHAGEN, Fri.: Russia, in negotiations for a trade agreement with Denmark has offered 35½d per lb. for Danish butter in exchange for Russian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →High Wool Prices No Prospect Of Falling Records at Albury Sales
“Most clips returned an all-time record average,” said Mr J. J. Vile, of Dalgety & Co, commenting yesterday on the success of the Albury…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial Special Cattle Sale, Wodonga
Gippsland and Northern conducted a special sale of store cattle at Wodonga on Thursday when they submitted 1200 well bred store cattle to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →American Wheat for Europe
WASHINGTON, Sun.—The Secretary for Commerce (Mr Harriman) has presented to Mr Truman a report on the 1947-48 grain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Europe Needs Our Wool
MELBOURNE, Sun.â As dollars run out, European countries, which once looked to South America. to supply wool for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Government Blamed “Thousands of Cattle Dying”
MELBOURNE, Sun.— More than 200,000 head of cattle were wasting and dying in the Northern Territory, because of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers May Strike
LAUNCESTON. Sunday: A strike of all farmers in Tasmania, and an effort to make it Commonwealth-wide. as a protest against…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Stealing in Riverina
Allegations that sheep stealing was prevalent in the district, and that the carcases were being sold into a black market, were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Values Hold
MELBOURNE, Mon: Catalogues of 800 bales of good standard wellgrown wools, both merino and crossbred, chiefly from Riverina and Northern…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fumigation of Bagged Wheat
The fumigation of large stacks of bagged wheat is discussed in Bulletin 207, just issued by the Council for Scientific and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Handling of the Wheat Harvest
"All matters related to the coming harvest are still being constantly reviewed with all those able to assist in its efficient…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Scabby Mouth" of Sheep Joint Departmental Statement
"Scabby mouth" (contagious pustular dermatitis) is a disease of sheep which is causing concern to sheep owners and those engaged on working…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →"Rural Bank Sells a Soldier's Farm"
The following letter is reprinted from "The Tumut and Adelong Times":-- (To the Editor)…
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