Farm Tragedy Brother And Sister Killed Members of Well-known Family Tenterfield
A girl was murdered and her brother terribly battered on a lonely farm near Tenterfield last night. The victims were: Miss Constance…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1939
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Mutton And Lamb Exports Shock for British Farmers London
The refusal of Australia and New Zealand to restrict their mutton a lamb exports came as an acute appointment to British farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cootamundra Sheep Market
The monthly sheep market was held last week by the Cootamundra Associated Agents. Fat sheep: 1,200 yarded…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Three Hours in a Wool Press
They were talking of old time shearing tallies, wet spells, "ringers," cooks, "wrinkle-necks," "rosellas," hard cases and hard bosses, when Pinkem told…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australianalities Fish-oh! — Paid in Gold — Three Hours in a Wool at the Ball Fish-oh!
A weather beaten old ticket-of-leave man who was trying to earn an honest living by selling fresh fish in Sydney, long years ago, in the cast-iron…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Items of News Water for Junee Farmers
In future the Junee Municipal Council will supply water to district farmers at the rate of 6d per 100 gallons or part thereof…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Burrinjuck Fears Dam May Drain Dry in Seven Weeks Grave Shortage of Water Threat to Crops
Unless substantial rains fall in the Burrinjuck catchment are area in the next three weeks, it is almost certain that the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Assistance for Wheat-growers Wheat Industry Stabilisation Act, 1938
Forms of application to enable wheat-growers to apply for assistance under the abovementioned Act are now available at all police…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Duty Sought on Imported Sheep
Contending that there was nothing at present to prevent inferior and unregistered stud sheep coming into Australia from New Zealand, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat From Manchukuo Tokio
The Finance Minister told the Diet to-day that plans are progressing well to expand wheat production in M[?] and North China…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →WHEAT & OATS Experimental Plots at Oaklands
Wheat and oat variety trials were conducted in the Oaklands district during the year by the Department of Agriculture. The wheat plots were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Markets Abroad Liverpool Wheat Sydney
A private wheat agent in received the following cable Liverpool: "Western Australian February shipment valued at 23/6 a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales Improved Tone Maintained Sydney
The Improvement which was reported at Thursday's wool sales was maintained to-day and in the case of all well-grown wools the prices ruled from par…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Supplies for Defence Purchase Urged Request by Growers
A Parkes message says that a request that wheat should be purchased for defence purposes has been made to the Federal Government by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →World Wheat Australian Cargoes Sold to Russia Sydney
The Lindley Walker Wheat Co. in its weekly report states that week-end [?]ables emphasise some undercurrents of strength in the international…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Holding Its Own Breeder's Opinion Battle with Substitutes
Although the present position of the Australian woolgrower is by no means bright, there can be no doubt that wool is still holding its own as far as…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Australian Society of Breeders of British Sheep (N.s.w. Branch) Duty on Imported Sheep Sought to Prevent Inferior Animals Coming in British Breeders' Move
Contending that there was nothing at present to prevent inferior and unregistered stud sheep coming into Australia from New Zealand, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm-owned Mills Wheatgrowers' Union Move Fair Bread Prices
Fair prices for wheat and bread are among the objectives of the new Wheatgrowers' Co-operative Protection Society…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rice Crops Irrigation May Be Stopped Fears for Industry Yanco
Advice has been received that, because of the grave shortage of water in the Burrinjuck Reservoir, supplies of water for irrigating the rice crops…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer Killed Tractor Fractures Skull Tamworth
Sir Hussey Burgh Fairley Cunninghame, farmer, of Murrungul, Rushes Creek, in the Manilla district, was killed to-day when the tractor he was…
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