Late Harvesting Start Following Flood on Rice Farm
WHILE giving evidence before the Land Board on Tuesday, Mr. E. B. Owers stated that he had not then commenced to harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farming & the land, 1939
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Reappraising Residential Farms "Definite Subdivisional Value" Land Board Decisions
THAT residential farm blocks adjacent to Leeton have a definite subdivisional value because of the growth of the town…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Annual Junior Farmers' Social
The annual social of the Leeton and District Junior Farmers will be held to-night at L.I.H.S.. The cups and certificates won by various…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Compensation Offer to Vacate Farms? Statement Regarding Seepage Investigation Committee Settlers on "Hills" Vitally Interested
IT was stated at the meeting of the Griffith Returned Soldiers' League this week that several Yenda settlers have…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →MARGARINE v. BUTTER
No one can say that the movement to have the margarine business clarified is premature. On the contrary it is rather belated. To many people who use their eyes (and their palates) it has been obvious for some time that margarine was being substituted for butter in many of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cootamundra Sheep Show
Cootamundra's now famous sheep show and dog trials promise this year to eclipse any previous effort of the committee. Already many promises…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co. Ltd. repo[?] the 6th instant. We submitted at our sale on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Wool Sales
Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report that for their 13th and last sale of the 1938-9 selling season they offered 1300 bales. A large percentage of the offering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COMMERCIAL Wagga Stock Market Sheep Market Dearer
The associated agents of Wagga report having held their fortnightly sheep sale at the Wagga municipal saleyards on Thursday. There were…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sheep Classing Characters Desirable in a Flock
The following desirable characters should be kept in mind when culling the flock:-- 1. Good strong heads without…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Markets Abroad Liverpool Wheat Sydney
A private wheat agent in Sydney received the following cable massage from Liverpool to-day. "Unchanged, quiet; Argentine shipments March, no…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Foot-Rot in Sheep Wisdom of Early Treatment
The wet season is having the usual result of causing foot-rot in sheep to appear, particularly in the Riverina, states the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Sales Eightpence a Pound Average Sydney
The average price of wool sold in Sydney this week was £10/15/10 a bale. or 8d a pound…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bounty on Wool To Be Sought By Growers Serious Position of the Industry
Owing to the serious position of the wool growing industry, the Australian Wool Growers’ Council will be compelled to ask…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Clip Australian Estimate for Next Season Big Decline in Carry Over Melbourne
The Australian wool clip for the 1939-40 season was estimated at 3,096,500 bales by a joint conference to-day of the National Council of Wool Selling…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yenda Settlers Surprised Offered Compensation to Vacate Farms Yenda
Surprise has been occasioned at Yenda by the report that seven well-known local residents, some of them prominent in public movements, have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Stabilisation
At a meeting of the Lockhart District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on Saturday, the following motion was moved by Mr. T. L…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Conditions Marketing Bureau Report May Favors All Areas
The State Marketing Bureau, Department of Agriculture, in its report; on conditions in New South Wales at approximately May 31, points out that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bagged Wheat at Silos Minister Approves Handling Official Announcement
The Minister for Agriculture (Major Reid) announces that he has approved of arrangements being made for the handling of bagged wheat at silo…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Growers Meet Prime Minister Stabilisation Plan Canberra
Because the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) bad been unable to attend the interview on Friday between the representatives of the Australian…
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