Dipping of Sheep for External Parasites Practices to Avoid
Don't clip sheep just after they have eaten their fill, or when they are in an overheated condition. Allow them to…
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Farming & the land, 1940
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Farmer Filled Role of Masseur to Save Lives of Many Sheep Seven-hours Job Staved Off Heavy Loss, But Others Not So Fortunate
Cold weather which followed rain throughout the Dubbo district recently resulted in heavy mortality among sheep, then recently shorn. One Narromine man lost 22 sheep, but he declares…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Price of Wheat After Deductions Are Made
Wheat farmers think it isn’t right that the public should be deceived into believing that they have received 2/7¾ for their wheat from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Junior Farmers' Club Gilgandra Members Gaining Experience
Members of the Gilgandra Junior Farmers' Club have enjoyed two very interesting and instructive field days…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Farm Home Control of White Ants Protective Treatment of Timber
The most effective liquid in general use for the treatment of timber to prevent white ant attack is coal tar creosote oil…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Gollan Wonderful Recovery Crops Look Well Heads Filling Out
It is extraordinary the marvellous recovery the whet crops have made since the rain. While there are very few heavy crops, they look as if they…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The FARMER & His Markets Faulty Wools. Supplies and the Continent
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: As the appraising season has advanced In New South Wales, the advantage of the sale of the whole…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Report
The Farmers & Graziers Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 2nd instant:— We submitted our Appraisement…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Report
The Country Producers' Selling Company Ltd. reported on the 3rd October:—We finalised our appraisement 29 on Monday last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Gerara Wool
The Gerara clip from H. C. and Mrs. A. F. Thomson was offered in Winchcombe Carson's last Sydney appraisement catalogue. The…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wool Reserve. Sydney
Canberra.—A strategic reserve of 250,000,000 lbs of Australian wool (about a quarter of the current season's clip) will be stored in the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Industry Ball A Sydney
A Committee representative of the Wool Trade in New South Wales is holding a Wool Industry Ball at the Trocadero, Sydney, on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Eumungerie Wheat Season Farmers Want Silos Ready Stripping Next Month
A meeting of the executive committee of the Enmungerie branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held on Wednesday night…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dubbo Stock Sale Strong Demand For Cattle
The Commonwealth Wool & Produce Co. Ltd.'s sale held yesterday was very successful. Buyers were present from Cumnock, Yeoval, Wellington, Gollan,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Wheat Traffic Dubbo Railway Activity
With the slackening of stock truckings, following the recent rains, and the approaching end of the wool-trucking season, business at the Dubbo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Wool Packs 1941 Supply Obtained Melbourne, Friday night
The Minister For Supply (sir Frederick Stewart) said to-day that wool packs required for use in 1941 had been secured by the Jute Advisory…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Can't Pay Cash, So Loses Money Hospital Discounts £113 Bill for Butter—-financial Position
The treasurer (Dir. D. F. Almond) emphasised, at a meeting of the Dubbo District Hospital Board last night, that the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COMMERCIAL Sydney Wool Market Gulgong Clip on Top 16¼d for Narromine Fleece
Pitt, Son & Badgery Ltd. report:—Our sixth Sydney catalogue of the season comprised 3,119 bales. The selection was an average one and a good…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drought-help for Farmers Commonwealth Gives £950,000 Advance Conference to Review Australian Position Melbourne, Friday night
To meet the immediate necessities of farmers in drought-stricken areas £95O,000 would he distributed by the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Police Search for Armed Man Who 'Stole' Farmer's Daughter Aberdeen, Friday night
A large squad of police and a black tracker are searching the country between Aberdeen and Dorrigo for a man who is alleged to have forced an 18-year-old girl, at rifle point, to leave her mother and father and depart with him into the bush. The incident occurred at Dangarfield, eight miles from Aberdeen, to-day…
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