Heavy Cut in Area Sown to Wheat in S.e. Riverina
The acreage under wheat this year in the S.E. Riverina will probably be about 50 per cent, of normal sowings, the Senior…
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Wool cheque cut back millions as result of steep price drop
SYDNEY, Thurs.: Wool realisations for last month reflected the steep fail in prices. Total proceeds for sales in February this year were…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Migrant Farm Labour Available Soon
"Migrant farm workers from Italy and Holland will be available for work in this district at the end of March,"…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Migrants for Farm Work in Riverina
Italian and Dutch migrant workers will be available for employment in Riverina from the end of March, district…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →“Taxes Holding Back Farmer”
MELBOURNE, Thursday Federal taxation was the main cause of the decline in primary production in Australia, the Premier (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?]Re Beef Will Make Better Farming
[?] we are beginning to [?] food production is [?] No 1. industry; [?] are bread are more…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Shortage to Persist
LISMORE, Fri.: The general manager of the Norco Co-operative Ltd.,(Mr. J. K. Donaldson) said today that there was very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Commercial Urana Sheep Sale
New Zealand Loan and MA Co. Ltd, and J. M. Smith and Co. reported that at their sheep sale at Urana last Thursday the attendance of buyers was…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →High Court “throws out” wheat men’s action involving £30 mil
MELBOURNE, Fri.: The Full High Court today refused a wheat firm leave to bring an action before the Privy Council for compensation for wheat compulsorily acquired by the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →“District wheat men tricked over freight charges” ABOUT 3/6 a Bushel Is Lost, It Is Claimed
Albury district wheat growers were being tricked out of several shillings a bushel on freight charges, Australian Primary Producers’ Union representative, Mr. Jacobm Burrumbuttock, claimed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plane Spraying Pea Crop Kills Man
SYDNEY, Fri.: A man was killed instantly at Athol, near Blayney, today when struck by a plane spraying a pea crop…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Liberals at Albury talks call for big changes in taxes on farmers
Radical changes in taxation affecting primary producers were sought by the Federal Rural Conference of the Liberal Party n its final sittings at Albury yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Farmers’ wives should pick rural migrants”
Farmers, their wives and trained Immigration Department officials should go overseas to select the “proper” type of migrant farm worker to be employed on Australian farms…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm implements charge refuted
An allegation that the Federal Government was “hogging” Australian manufactured machinery and products and leaving…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Warwick Farm to Again Have Races
SYDNEY, Fri: The Australian Jockey Club’s Warwick Fran meetings, at present held at Randwick, will be conducted at Warwick Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →“Lives of small farmers need brightening”
Hundreds of small mixed farmers did not have the amenties which, by law they had to provide for shearers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Milk plus wheat for baconers
A ration including a small quantity of separated milk and wheat grain, fed to growing pigs in an experiment at Grafton Experiment Farm, has produced growth rates which could hardly be improved upon…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Production Can Be Increased
The exhortation to growers by the Prime Minister the other night to sow another million acres down to wheat this year has not met with a very cordial reception. Nor is it likely to unless such conditions develop, or are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Farm revival key to our future” Liberal Man’s Grim Warning
WAGGA, Sun.—A warning that Australia “faced economic collapse” unless the swiftly dying primary production of the country was given new life was voiced by the NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lack of rain worries district farmers
Farmers in the border district are becoming seriously worried over the lack of rain, They say if rain does not fall within a week or so, winter feed will be short and stock will…
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