Wool Display at Bourke Show
The Wool Display was very good at the Bourke P. & A. Association's Show last Saturday. 80 fleeces were judged in the various sections and the winning fleeces came in for much inspection…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1969
114 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 5 of 6
Elders-G.M. Wool Sales
The following are the results obtained by local clips at the second Wool Sale of the current season…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New Feed Method to Lift Wool Production
Sheep in drought areas may soon double or even treble their wool growth rate with the use of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rural Bank Beef Cattle Breeders' Competition
The ever-popular Beef Cattle Breeders' Competition conducted by the Agricultural Bureau, the Department of Agriculture and the Rural Bank, will be conducted again during 1969/70…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Best Fat Cattle Sale Since 1967
The Fat Cattle Market took an amazing about-turn at last Friday's Bourke Sale conducted by the Bourke Associated Agents. The Selling Agents quoted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Elders-G.M. Wool Sales
Elders-G.M. report the following local Wool Sales at their Sale on September 16th:…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →F. and G. Wool Sales
Prices were generally unchanged at last Thursday's (18/9/69) Sydney Wool Sale compared with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →First Bulk Wheat Consignment from Bourke
Pictured is the first consignment of bulk wheat being loaded on rail at Bourke last week. This is the first ever consignment of bulk wheat from the Bourke District. All of last years crop was bagged. Of the Tingolen variety, this wheat was grown under irrigation on "Kallara" Station. Approximately 100 tons of wheat has been transported from "Kallara" to the bulk wheat storage centre at Darling Harbour in the past fortnight…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Carpets
The new carpets purchased for the Coonamble Bowling Club will be made of 100% wool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Marketing Proposals
Mr. F. M. MacDiarmid, President of the Graziers' Association of N.S.W., said in Sydney recently that he wished to make perfectly clear his association's position concerning the wool marketing proposals announced by the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →F. and G. Wool Sales
Competition for long wools was limited at Thursday, October 2nd, Sydney Auction, with…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Marketing Proposals
Whether or not the Federal Government's wool marketing proposals were finally accepted by woolgrowers, the State Shearing Industry Committee would welcome the emphasis the scheme placed on the need to upgrade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dalgety Wool Sales
Sydney Wool Sales Series 4, closed on Thursday, 2nd October, with values for most descriptions moving…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Elders-G.M. Wool Sales
Following' are district clips sold at Elders-G.M. Fourth Wool Sale of the Season held on the 29th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Japan's Wool Yarn Sales to Russia
Japan had contracted to export 6000 tons of worsted knitting yarns to Russia, the Farmers &…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →F. and G. Wool Sales
Competition was more widespread at Wednesdays Sydney Wool Auction. The Farmers and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The First Sheep Wagon!
We have photographs in the Archives of many kinds of teams, including goat-teams, but this is the first sheepwagon we have come across. It would be interesting to know how well they took to the reins. Anyway, this is doubly interesting and also topical in a way, because the very pretty little girl here (who is shown with her brother) later married and became the mother of Mrs. Max Overton, of "Merriman." Max, of course, is in the public eye at present…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Yarding of Fat Cattle
Bourke Associated Agents report having conducted a most successful fat cattle sale on Friday, 17th…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The End of Sheep —Shearing?
The December edition says something of experiments with a nitrogen-mustard drug which may herald the end of "a hot, hard, odorous, dirty but skilled occupation." Taken internally this substance interrupts the growth of hair…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Grant for Wool Industry Research
The announcement that a further grant of $351,130 will be made available for wool industry research…
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