Few Sheep for Replacings
Latest pastoral statistics indicate that in New South Wales there are 22,106,000 ewes and 10,54.5,000 wethers. It is not surprising that landholders…
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Wheat Receival Arrangements
Answering a question asked in Parliament by Mr. R. B. Nott, MLA, as to the latest position in regard to the provision of corn…
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Although no price has been determined, it s understood that a new wheat agreement is contemplated with Britain to provide for a price much be…
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CANBERRA, Mon.—Increased returns to farmers for butter, cheese and processed milk which will result in increased retail prices for those products were announced by Mr. Chifley today. Mr. Chifley said that the new basic return to the farmer of…
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There are 9,71,000 fewer sheep to shear this season in New South Wales than 12 months ago, state Winchecombe Carson Ltd…
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The Country Producers Selling Company Ltd., in a recent wool report, warns against such classing as…
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SYDNEY, Mon: All the best features of the closing sales last week were reproduced at today’s wool auctions. There was a particularly keen demand…
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MELBOURNE, Mon: The Melbourne woolbrokers report that at the opening of the third series of Melbourne wool sales today approximately 12,000…
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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. (Inc. in Eng.) report having conducted their opening sale at Hay, NSW, on Wednesday, October…
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Answering a question in the House, by Mr. R. B. Nott, M.LA.., the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) gave an assurance that he had ordered…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Factory Annual Meeting 15 Per Cent Dividend Declared
The 41st annual meeting of the Deniliquin Butter Factory and Farm Produce Co. Ltd. was held yesterday , afternoon at-the off of the company…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Langtry Asks for Wheat Payments Minister Promises Higher Advances
MR. LANGTRY, M.H.R. for Riverina, recently asked the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture to recommend to Cabinet that the first advance payment on wheat be made as high as possible…
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In the United States and Canada numerous wheatgrowers have never used a cornsack for handling the wheat they have harvested, according to the…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr Graham) said today that some estimates of the coming wheat harvest were as high as 100 million bushels. Final estimates would reach the department from all country districts next Wednesday…
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SYDNEY, Mon.—State Cabinet today rejected demands by dairymen for an immediate increase in milk prices in the milk zone…
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SYDNEY, Tues.: The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said in the Legislative Assembly to-day that the ordinary working hours of silos were from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., five days a week, but where necessary during the coming harvest, silos would be kept…
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SYDNEY, Tues.—New price for butter to the dairy farmer of 2/- per lb announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Chifley)…
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The Australian wheat growers will want to know right now the adequate preparations are in hand to lift what promises to be a bumper wheat crop. Over the last few days there have been ominous hints that there could be a shortage of com…
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SYDNEY, Tues. — Northern wheat farmers have begun harvesting Australia’s record wheat crop. Harvesting will begin in…
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BRISBANE, Tues.: An allegation by Mr. Aikens (Ind., Mundingburra) that Queensland graziers were letting stock die off to save income tax was made in Parliament to-day. He quoted a letter from a north-western grazier, who claimed that he was…
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