Tea, Butter Announcement Soon
CANBERRA, Tues.: The Government hoped to make a statement about its policy on butter and tea rationing, the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1950
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Toddler Drowned in Sheep Trough Tallangatta
A 23 month-old boy was drowned in a sheep trough on his parents’ property at Mitta yesterday afternoon. He was VINCENT CARDWELL, son of Mr and Mrs Cyril…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Averages
The present high prices for Merino wool provide some interesting averages. One grower, Mr. W. H. Graham, reveals that 74 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Wool Process
CANBERRA, Wed.: Discovery in Britain of a new process known as “Ambler Superdraft” system for processing wool was announced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Wool Sales
The Melbourne woolbrokers report that at the eighth series of sales for the 1949/50 season held on February 13 to 20, the average…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Our Wheat for Spain
CANBERRA, Wed.: Arrangements have been completed for the sale of 60,000 tons of Australian wheat to Spain…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Champion Sheep of Jingellic Show
First in the Southdown section and champion sheep of Jingellic Show on Wednesday, this ram owned and exhibited by Mr W. Cleaver Gadd, Guy’s Forest, was also reserve champion of the last Royal Melbourne Show. Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →What's News in Wool
A suit made of handwoven worsted tweed navy with red and green stripe and overcheck, woven by the North American Indian girls of the Caughnawaga tribe. The jacket is checked and the pencil-slim skirt striped. The outfit and fabric are made by Merino of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Is Not Hot!
The popular fallicy that wool is hos heads off more sales than any other one thing. Wool keeps us warm in winter, but in the proper weights and weaves,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle to Be Big Wheat Fort
SYDNEY, Thurs.: The capacity of the terminal, wheat elevators at Newcastle are to be increased from 800,000 bushels to 2,800,000…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Japan May Not Buy Our Wool
TOKIO, Thurs.: Japanese purchases of Australian wool and wheat and Malayan rubber may have to be suspended as a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Is Not Hard to Care For
Anything of value needs some cane Wool, however, has many qualities which so reduce the amount of care needed that it is really easy to care for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Records Broken; 123¼D at Albury Wool Sales
All previous records were surpassed at the Albury wool sales yesterday, when 123¼d was realised for a fourbale line of super fine merino fleece branded OD in block, account the estate of the late John Daly,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local and General Farmers Oppose Alteration to Size of Cornsacks
In reply to a resolution from Henty branch of the Farmers and Settlers' asking that the Executive Council make representation to the Federal Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Plan to Replace J.o
CANBERRA, Fri.: A reserve price scheme for future wool marketing had been considered at a conference in London on the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →COMMERCIAL The Rock Sheep Sale
Dalgety & Co. Ltd, Wagga, with C. H. Hodges, The Rock, report having held their monthly sale at The Rock on Friday. Four thousand three hundred…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat for Germany, Japan
OTTAWA, Sunday : Canada and the US have reached an agreement on wheat supplies to Germany and Japan, if those two…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →India Will Crow Own Wheat
ADELAIDE, Sat. : Mr K. S. Duleepsinhji, well known in. Australia as a Test cricketer, arrived in Adelaide by the Strathmore…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World’s Biggest Wheat Grower Dead
PERTH, Sunday : Mr F. W. G. Liebe, the only person in Australia, and reputedly in the world, to have grown 100,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers Change Rotational Cropping
In his report for February, the District Agronomist (Mr G. C. Bartlett) says that the weather over the last harvest was almost ideal for the work in hand. Late rains prevented a good deal of hay cutting, and the amount cut . in the…
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