Record Wheat Yield Forecast. Canberra
Officials of the Commerce Department last night estimated that Australia's wheat cheque for 1947/48 will total about £170 million or £35…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1948
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Varieties of Wheat For 1948 Sowing
Following are the latest recommendations by the Department of Agriculture of varieties of wheat for sowing in various wheatgrowing…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Harvest May Be 105 Mill. Bushels
Results of the last survey made throughout wheat areas indicate that the harvest will yield 105 million bushels, of which probably 43 per…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report
Winchcombe Carson Ltd. wired this morning, as follows:— "We sold 6,900 bales of wool at our Sydney auction on Wednesday. Values…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Paid Hail Insurance and Another Crop to Boot
Though it is not unusual to harvest a second crop of wheat from one planting, it does not often happen that a farmer has his crop…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Glare Glasses Again! Wool Report
The Country Producers Selling Co. Limited report under date 5th February, 1948:— Throughout the week sales have…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Quality of Wheat
The Chemist's Branch of the Department of Agriculture has received many enquiries as to the value for milling into flour, of the various…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Show at Olympia
The Western Incubator, one of the many exhibits at the 61st Dairy Show. Eggs are turned in this machine every hour. This operation is entirely automatic and requires no attention whatever, and is carried out by a specially designed, totally enclosed gearbox, driven…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Lands in Danger. Mr. Fadden Stresses Socialist Menace
"Australia should awaken to the extreme danger of the socialistic policy being pursued by the Chifley Government", said the Federal Country…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Thursday's Cattle Sales
The order of cattle sales, scheduled for next Thursday, February 26, will be: Fat cattle at W. K. Baileys yards at 2.30; store cattle at A. W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Yorkshire's Wool Buying. Monetary Conditions and Prices
Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— Yorkshire competition has been one of the most sustained features of this season's wool sales. Her mill…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →State Pastoral Conditions
The unusually wet and cool conditions experienced in recent months continued into the early part of January in the eastern half of the State…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Stabilisation
Commenting on the outcome of the recent meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Graham, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Narrabri Seed Wheat for South Australia
Last season's winner of the North-Western zone in the R.A.S. Wheat Crops Competition, Mr. W. J. Wall, of Stoney Creek, has received an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report
The Farmers & Graziers' Co-Operative Gram Insurance Agency Company Limited report 19th February, 1948:—…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dubbo Wool Carbonising Works
The carbonising works of the Anglo-Australian Carbonisers Pty. Ltd., Dubbo, closed for a number of years, and recently taken over by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Top Prices. Japan's Mill Output
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Although prices for tops in Bradford have moved upward recently, their advance has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Boday Strike In Sheep Promising Experiment with B.H.C. at Scone
The recent spell of cool wet weather has rendered sheep particularly susceptible to blowfly strike. During this period body, strike has been very…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Nutrition
"Pasture improvement is the only effective economic means which will allow graziers on the poorer granite soils of the eastern New England…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Show Wheat Entries
Owing to the effect of the rains during the harvest period on the quality of the wheat grain very little show wheat was harvested and the…
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