Wheat Acreage Increase Expected Sydney
It was anticipated that an appeal would be made to increase wheat acreages dining the coming planting said the acting cereal specialist of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1944
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Wool Market
Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: We submitted for final appraisement on Monday, a most representative catalogue of 3,800…
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The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. report: We submitted a very attractive selection, of what could be rightly termed, wools…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Substitute Menace
Mr. J. P. Abbott, chairman of the Australian Wool-growers' Council, states that that body, in conjunction with New…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Its Value
More than 2,160,000 bales of wool, valued at £40,354,574, had been appraised in Australia under the British purchase scheme this…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →American Wool Publicity Spirited Efforts
In the United States a pessimistic outlook on the future of wool is far from generally taken, but strong steps…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Firmer Cattle Market
A total of 215 head of cattle was yarded at the Dubbo monthly stock sale on Friday, 192 head being disposed of. The offering was of good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Reduced Butter Ration Unlikely—Keane Canberra
It was stated officially today there was no immediate likelihood of the the butter ration being cut from eight to six ounces weekly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Prices
Winchcombe Carson wire:- 5764 bales for wool apraised at out Sydney catalogue on Tuesday. Results included: Frederick…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Market Sheep Improve
The Country Producers' Selling Co. Ltd. report the following sales at Homebush market on the 14th February, 1944:—21,039 sheep,…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Butter, Meat Rationing Canberra
The Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) announced in Canberra today that if the British food supply were in jeopardy there would be greater…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Drafting Sheep at "T-hora"
Mrs. Vera Smith, Australia's Only woman drover, discards conventional home life for the stock routes and the everlasting sameness of the never-ending plains."…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Slaughtering Meat Demand Decreasing Flocks
The quality of wool received at New South Wales appraising centres this season is now nearly 1,100,000 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Control of Sheep Blowfly Combination of Methods Necessary
No satisfactory single method of control is ever likely to be evolved that will solve the sheep blowfly problem, points…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Girl Who Croons Bush Ballads to Accompaniment of Bleating Sheep Australia's Only Woman Drover
THE exigencies of war have wrought vast changes in the economic life of Australia. Women bus and tram conductors, lorry drivers, farm hands and letter carrier are no longer a novel sight…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Unique Tribute Received From Prison Farm "Boys"
A remarkable tribute, probably unique, was paid Mr. A. MacKillop when he left Mannus prison farm, near Tumbarumba, of which he had had charge for 12 years, to come to Dubbo to control the Dubbo gaol…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Catch Crop of Chickens
A poultry expert has pointed out that although the normal hatching season is still four or five months off, the urgent need…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Wool Report
The Country Producers reported on 10th February :—We submitted a very attractive selection of what could be rightly termed, wools most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Manpower's Failure to Help Farmers
A motion to be submitted to the general conference of the New South Wales Graziers' Association by the Dubbo District Council charged the manpower authorities with failure to co-operate with the primary industries…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Staking Sites Geurie Request
Mr. C. G. Robertson, M.L.A., has received the following letter from the Minister for Agriculture and Forests relative to…
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