Hybrid Wheat Tests for Rust Resistance
Some 7000 hybrid wheats doveloped by the plant-breeding staff of the Department of Agriculture are being tested for rust…
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Hope to Settle Wool-handling Dispute
CANBERRA, Thursday : The Commonwealth Government is hopeful that the Sydney wool handling dispute will be settled…
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Following are the latest recommendations by the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture of varieties of wheat for sowing for grain in various…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Four Million Bushels of Wheat From Albury District
The District Agronomist (Mr. G. C. Bartlett) in his monthly crop report for the South-Eastern Riverina, forecasts a yield of 4,000,000 bushels of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Two Ships Sail Without 21,000 Bales of Wool
SYDNEY, Thursday : Two ships sailed for overseas ports today leaving behind 21,000 bales of wool on NSW wharves…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commercial Wagga Special Sheep Sale
A highly successful special sheep sale was held at Wagga on Monday, February 21, when the Farmers & Graziers’ Co-op. Co. Ltd. submitted…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →This is the Wool !
This wool, sold on behalf of Mrs E. E. Daly, Mullengandra, by Younghusband Ltd., at Albury, on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Albury Wool Sale 50 Years Ago
AT Albury on Wednesday up to 119 pence a pound was paid for merino fleece wool. At Albury on Nov. 4, 1898 (from paper in possession of Mr W. C. Schulz, Forrest Hill), up to 7½…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Temperament in Dairy Cows, Dehorn or Cull Aggressive Animals
Some cows are naturally aggressive while others are timid. The aggressive beast is a menace in the assembly yard and may…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Crop 35½ Million Bushels Down
CANBERRA, Tues. : Commonwealth Statistician (Mr Carver) said today that the 1948-49 season’s wheat crop was expected to total…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Albury Wool Sales
As the Melbourne waterside workers’ dispute had been settled, Albury wool sales would be held on March 16 and 17 as scheduled,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Strike Extends
MELBOURNE, Tues.: Extension of the wool and [?] workers’ dispute to Geelong has resulted in 150 men working in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Says Wheat Should be Graded
Grading of Australian wheat was urged last week by the principal research agronomist of the Department of Agriculture (Dr. S. Macindoe)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Estimate
It is estimated that the 1948-49 wheat crop of New South Wales will yield 66,000,000 bushels of grain and 200,000 tons of hay…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Stomach Worms In Sheep
A single treatment of 1.8 per cent. DDT has been shown in a departmental experiment at Wagga Experiment Farm to clean up fowl…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Melbourne Wool Sales
The Melbourne woolbrokers report that at the eighth Melbourne series of wool sales in the 1948/49 season, held on February 7th, 8th…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Probe Into Sheep Sales
SYDNEY, Thurs: Prices Branch Investigating officers had made a full report on the sale of 28,000 sheep and lambs at Flemington…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Holbrook Special Sheep Sale
Messrs Dalgety and Co. Ltd, Holbrook, Albury and branches, report having conducted a successful special sale of local surplus sheep yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Can We Make Butter Again?
Hay Chamber of Commerce has decided to raise with the Hay Butter Factory the question of recommencing butter making in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Registered Seed Wheat & Oats
For 1949, arrangements have been made by the Department of Agriculture with seventy-nine farmers-to sow registered areas…
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