Costs 6/ to Grow a Bushel of Wheat
CANBERRA, Thurs.—The maximum cost of wheat, production in. Australia was 6/ a bushel and the minimum cost 4/8 a…
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£37,000 Wheat Institute For Wagga WAGGA
A. wheat research institute to cost approximately £37,000 will be built at the Wagga Experiment Farm shortly. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr E. H. Graham) said this at a luncheon today when he officially opened the first…
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Dear Madam,— On October 1, 1928, there was launched in N.S.W. a movement which has been very popular in the rural…
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MELBOURNE, Fri.—That the Millewa district -is not a wheatgrowing proposition as stated by the assistant Minister (Mr Byrnes)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →F.a.q. Wheat 60½ Lb. Bushel
SYDNEY, Friday: The Chamber of Commence today fixed the f.a.q. standard wheat for the 1947-48 season at 60½ lbs…
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SYDNEY, Sunday: Unless more shearers are recruited, hundreds of thousands of sheep will go unshorn in the seasons ahead,…
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When an inspector of Albury PP Board visited the 12 mile reserve on Howlong road on December 10 he saw 1100 sheep…
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JOHN MCNAMARA AND CO. report-Lambs 2/- dearer; Fat sheep and stores firm…
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SYDNEY, Men.: This year’s estimated Australian wool clip of 3,061,000 bales is now about 66 per cent sold, according to the…
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Commenting on the outcome of the recent meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Graham…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Clip for 1947-48 3,061,000 Bales
Last July's estimate of the Australian wool clip for 1947-48 season still stands at 3,601,000 bales. including, about 100,000, bales of skin wools. The…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Harvestin[?] Nearing End
SYDNEY, Tues — Harvesting of the State wheat crop is expected to be completed within three weeks and the estimate of 100…
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CANBERRA [?] The Prices Commissioner (Mr McCarthy) announced today that he had fixed the price of new woolsacks for…
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BRISBANE Tues.: New rec[?] prices were paid for wool at Brisbane sales today. Greasy sold to 80¾, which…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Varieties of Wheat. Recommendation for 1948 SOWING
Following the latest recommendations by the Department of Agriculture of varieties of wheat for sowing in various wheatgrowing areas of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool 7/ lb. In Melbourne
MELBOURNE, Wed.—Approximately 9000 bales were offered at Melbourne wool sales today chiefly from northern and…
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MELBOURNE, Wed. — Late yesterday two transport drivers travelling from Adelaide to Melbourne found a wheat sack containing…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tawonga Dairy Farmers Branch of Association Formed
Sixty dairymen of the district met at Tawonga on February 23 and decided to form a branch of the Victorian Dairy Farmers’…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Huge Pig Farm In Queensland For Britain
BRISBANE, Wed.—A tentative agreement to spend £2 million on a project to provide food for Britain was reached today by…
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MELBOURNE, Wed.: For the first half of the current financial year, the State Electricity Commission had maintained a rate of…
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