Wool Sales Likely In August
SYDNEY.—Wool sales are likely to be resumed in Australia this year, possibly in August. They will be the first wool…
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Farming & the land, 1946
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Farmer Contest to Blayney
ORANGE, Sunday.—The New South Wales Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) announced that Mr. A. K. Gardiner, 46, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Cream for Factories Dairymen Want Fair Profit
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Dairymen will stop sending supplies of cream to butter factories until the Prices Branch allows the cost of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool to 19½d at Appraisement
Winchcombe Carson Ltd. offered a catalogue of 800 bales at their wool appraisement. Results included—J. R. Chappell, Bonshaw, wethers 19½d, ewes 18½d;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle Gets Four Inches of Rain: Farmers in Hunter Jubilant
v Beneficial rains, bringing relief worth thousands of pounds to farms in parched districts of the lower and middle Hunter Valley, continued today. Sharp showers yesterday heralded a continuous downpour…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britain Expects Wheat From U.s
LONDON, Monday: "America played the game with regard to wheat, and we shall get as much as it is possible to get out of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Liner to Take on Steel and Wool
The Blue Funnel liner Sarpedon, 11,321 tons, made a striking picture as she steamed up Newcastle Harbour through drizzling rain yesterday. The Sarpedon will load wool and steel for the United Kingdom and general cargo for Durban…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Aid to Mechanise Small Farms
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The plan of the Department of Agriculture for assistance in the mechanisation of small farms and in machinery…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →First Wheat Shipment in Four Years
The first bulk wheat to be shipped from Newcastle Silos for nearly four years will be loaded on board the motor ship Nordnese, when she…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Rain Gives New Life to Crops"
The rain had completely changed the agricultural outlook of the Hunter Valley and the Central West, said the Senior Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep, Lambs Firm
SYDNEY, Monday.—Only 28,044 sheep and lambs were penned at Flemington saleyards to-day. Competition was good and the market generally firm to 1/…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Half Wheat Crop for Britain
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—All Australian flour mills are in full production. It is expected more than half of Australia's wheat production for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dutchmen to Visit Butter Factory
A party of Netherlands East Indies agriculturalists making a survey of Australian dairying conditions, to-day will inspect the Hexham…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dutchmen See Butter Factory
The cooperative system of dairy production impressed a party of 9 Netherlands East Indies agriculturalists who visited the Hexham…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A.W.U. Appeals to Pastoral Workers
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Pastoral workers have been appealed to by the A.W.U. not to take part in any strike because such action would…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—At Flemington saleyards to-day supplies of sheep and lambs forward were again small, only 28,402 head being penned. Competition…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for Commerce (Mr. Scully) told Mr. Abbott (C.P., N.S.W.), in the House of Representatives that…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Back from World Tour Studying Farming Methods
Sergeant H. R. Richardson, of Broadmeadow, a former prisoner of war, has arrived in Newcastle after an eight months' world tour for the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Dispute Extends
SYDNEY, Friday.—One thousand wharf labourers refused to-day to handle double-dumped wool bales. As a result, 14 oversea and interstate…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Good Production of Butter, Cheese
There were no changes in the markets for dairy produce during the week, but arrivals had prompt clearance…
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