120M. Bushel Crop In N.S.W. Forecast
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Department of Agriculture to-day forecast that this year's wheat yield in New South Wales would be 120 million bushels…
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Farming & the land, 1947
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Gloucester Butter Pay For Sept
GLOUCESTER, Thursday. — For September, cream suppliers to Gloucester Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. were paid 1/7¾ for choicest, and…
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NEWCASTLE'S wheat silos will play an important part in getting away the huge Australian surplus of grain to…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.— The Indian High Commissioner to Australia (Sir Raghanuth Paranjpye) will head the Indian food mission which will…
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Two Australian sheep will be sacrificed during a Moslem religious ceremony which will take place off the Newcastle coast tomorrow…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The volume of future wool sales to Japan will depend on the amount of money Japan has available to make purchases…
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About 30,000 bales of wool will be sold on account of growers, Grazcos (Newcastle) and the Australian Wool Realisation Committee when the next…
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SYDNEY: Best and most discussed news in Britain was the prospect of Australia's bumper wheat crop, the Lord Mayor of Sydney (Ald. R. J. Bartley) said today. The Lord Mayor arrived by…
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Although wheat crops in the Upper Hunter were above average they were not a record, the District Agronomist (Mr. G. T. Dawson) said yesterday…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—The Secretary of the Poultry Farmers' Association (Mr. Boddington) said to-day that egg producers were determined to…
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. A.A.P.—The Agriculture Department announced higher selling prices for Government-owned fine quality shorn…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Consignments Of Wool Jam Newcastle Railway Yards
With the wool season at its peak and thousands of bales of wool flooding into railway sidings, congestion is occurring at Honeysuckle and other Newcastle goods yards. Augmented yard staffs are…
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LONDON.—The barber at Liskeard Public Assistance Institution, who gave 63 haircuts in a few hours, is to be asked to go slower…
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SYDNEY.—Tne withholding of egg supplies began today, but housewives probably will not feel any shortage…
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SYDNEY.—The harvesting of the record N.S.W. wheat crop of 120,000,000 bushels—worth anything up to 15s a bushel—has started…
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Two representatives of the Indian Food Commission would arrive in Australia to-morrow to buy 1 million tons of wheat at an estimated cost of…
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Representatives of primary producers and distribution organisations decided at a Food for Britain Conference in Newcastle yesterday to ask the…
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After loading wool on her first visit to Newcastle, the United States steamer Pioneer Star (8288 tons) will sail to-day for New York and Boston, via…
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Two thousand railway trucks would be released to move bulk and bagged wheat to Newcastle and Sydney for export, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) said in Sydney yesterday…
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NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—The prolonged drought is threatening winter wheat crops in the Middle West. Unless the dry spell breaks in the…
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