Lower Prices Mean Better Farming
LONDON—Professor G. E. Blackman. Rural Economist of Oxford University, said that avoiding excessive prices for produce encouraged…
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Farming & the land, 1946
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Infra-red Rays to Protect Crops
NEW YORK, Friday—Michigan State College scientists have developed an infra-red ray reflector to protect crops from frost…
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SYDNEY, Sunday.—A meeting of interstate wool selling brokers will be held in Sydney to-morrow to determine their attitude on settlement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →"Lavers' Body Was Buried In Sheep Yard," Crown Alleges
GRENFELL: Battered with the handle of a petrol bow. ser pump at Glenelg, near Grenfell, on September 5, 1936, the body of William Henry Lavers had been driven away in a car and disposed of secretly, it was alleged in Grenfell…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Frost Damages Potato Crops
October frosts had "just about finished" unirrigated potato crops in the Hunter Valley, said the District Agricultural Instructor (Mr. G. T…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Deadlock in Wool Disute
SYDNEY, Tuesdays.—A deadlock was reached at to-day's compulsory conference on the dispute between wool-selling brokers and the Clerks'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Black Ban Lifted From Wool
SYDNEY: The black ban on wool has been lifted. Wool-brokers have agreed to recognise only unions registered in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Dispute Ends; Friday Sales
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The "black" ban on wool handled by Dalgety and Co. and the Australian Mercantile Land and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle Wool Sold in Sydney
SYDNEY.—Prices were up at the wool sales in Sydney today. Six firms. offering wool from the postponed Newcastle sales of October 15…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairymen Seek Higher Prices
CANBERRA, Thursday.—"I have never known a period when dairy farmers were not seeking increased prices, and I was a dairy farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Discuss Lifting of Butter Ration
CANBERRA, Friday.—Cabinet would shortly discuss the question of lifting the butter ration, said the Prime Minister (Mr. Chifley) in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Prices at Wool Sales
SYDNEY, Friday.—A record price for greasy merino wool in New South Wales was paid to-day when 18 bales of AAAAW went to 54½d. The wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Peak Wool Prices At Albury
ALBURY, Monday.—At the wool sales to-day, which were postponed from October, the top price was 47d., a penny lower than the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hartley Apple Crop Destroyed By Hail
LITHGOW, Monday.—Almost the entire apple production of the Hartley district will be lost this season owing to severe hailstorms at the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hunter Farms Bare As Roads Mr. Elkin Says Output of Milk May Collapse
"Drought on the Hunter has never been so severe in my experience," the Senior Vice-president of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council (Mr. W. Elkin) said yesterday, warning of the possibility of a collapse in milk production. "On…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Greasy Wool 58½d at Sydney Sales
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Greasy merino fleece sold to 58½d for 10 bales of Burrangundy—WB—Coolah at the Sydney wool sales to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairymen Protest Against Delay of Subsidy
All branches in the Milk Zone had asked their Federal and State members of Parliament to register an immediate protest against the delay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Defence Wire Netting Wanted for Farms
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The Premier (Mr. McKell) said he would take up with the Prime Minister the question of whether wire netting was stored in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat for Hungry Unloaded In Record Time
DUSSELDORF, Nov. 15. A.A.P.—Dockers at Rotterdam unloaded 8000 tons of United States wheat destined for hungry Germans in 13½ hours,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Field Day for Farmers
The Department of Agriculture conducted its second field day in the Newcastle district at the Wallsend-road property of Messrs. Lovett and Stewart yesterday. Mr. W. L. Morgan, entomologist attached to the department (with arms folded), is addressing…
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