Big Shift of Wheat by Railways
MELBOURNE, Sun.: The Railways Department has already transported six million bushels of this year’s near-record…
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Silos Unable to Handle Big Wheat Flow
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Big wheat crops in the Wimmera arid Mallee are over-taxing silos…
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MELBOURNE, Toes: Wheat experts say that Victoria’s crop this year will be the second best on record and not far below the…
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MELBOURNE, Tues.: Hauled by two locomotives, a 64-truck train—which extended for one third of a mile— established an…
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MELBOURNE, Wed: Commenting today on the cabled report that India intends to stop all grain imports by the end of next year,…
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The first wool sales to be held at Albury this year will be opened at the Wool Exchange next Wednesday and Thursday,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer’s Hands Blown Off
BRISBANE, Wed. : A farmer had both his. hands blown off today when a plug of gelignite exploded while he was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Late Rains Saved the Crops
IN his crop report for the South-Eastern Riverina, just issued, Mr G. C. Barlett, district agronomist, says that the average yield for the 400,000 acres of wheat grown in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Classing Is Important
Every breeder would be better off if he discarded all sheep of less than average standard in his flock--in many cases the increase in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Wool Sales
The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the Sixth Series of Sales for the 1949-50 Season held on December 12th to 15th, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Kiewa Factory’s Record Butter Production
Evidence of the excellence of seasonal conditions in north-eastern Victoria during the latter part of last year is given…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Two-thirds of Crops Harvested in Southern Riverina 14-Bushel Overall Wheat Average Estimated
Harvesting has been proceeding apace throughout the South-Eastern Riverina district during December under very favourable conditions, and it is considered that about two-thirds of the crops have been harvested, said Mr. G. C. Bartlett, district agronomist, in a crop report…
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The year 1949 was full of anxiety but finished with unexpected climatic benefits, states Mr. G. C. Bartlett, district agronomist, Up till the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Fire on Research Farm
Soon after the alarm was given yesterday morning that a bush fire had broken out on the Council for Industrial Research Farm,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers Expected to Deliver 185 Million Bushes of Wheat Melbourne
“WHEAT deliveries in all States to date from this season’s crop total about 122 million bushels,” said Mr F.H.M. Cullen, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →322,000 Sheep Sold at Albury Last Year
A total of 322,334 fat and store sheep from a yarding of 416,855 was sold at Newmarket saleyards, Albury, during 1949, council records show…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →“Little Brothers” to Go on N.s.w. Farms
MELBOURNE, Fri.: Bound for farms in NSW, 20 “Little Brothers” reached Melbourne today in the liner Ranchi…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Kiewa Valley Senior Young Farmers
Kiewa Valley Senior Young Farmers’ Club will hold a dance in the Kergunyah hall on Wednesday, January 25…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farmers’ Incomes Skyrocket
SYDNEY, Son.: Ten years ago Australia harvested a wheat crop of 210 million bushels and received £38,775,000 for it…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wodonga Cattle Market
The following is the order of [?] at today’s Wodonga cattle market Gippsland & Northern, John McNam[?] & Co, Younghusband Ltd, New Zealand…
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