Thirteen Shillings Farmer’s Return for Forty Cows
A farmer who sent 40 cows 300 miles to the Homebush saleyards received a cheque for 13/- after freight and other charges had…
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State Wheat Crops Large Decrease in Sowings (From the State Marketing Bureau.)
The areas sown to wheat (gain and hay) in the scouts 1941-42 according to the Bureau of Statistics installed 4,341,400 acres, A careful analysis has been made…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Stocks Storage in Country
By selecting suitable wool appraisement centres in country areas, and erecting storage facilities, the Federal Government hopes to disperse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Wheat Plan Accepted on Broad Lines at Junee
The position of sharedfarmers under the wheat stabilisation scheme of the Commonwealth Government is considered to be in jeopardy unless property owners…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Thousands of Miles of Cloth Thousands of Tons of Wool Huge Yorkshire Military Production
Army greatcoats use up 44 miles of cloth and lining a week in a single Leeds factory where one garment is completed every three seconds, This workshop and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Small English Farm Production Increased 400 Per Cent
In producing 870 gallons of milk a month from only 47 acres of ploughing and grassland a tiny farm below the Sussex Downs has shown how British…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labor Movement. Critical Position of New South Wales Farmers
Almost every phase of agriculture and primary production with the possible exception of wool growing. faces a critical future. The war has brought complete disruption to the world's markets. Japan's entry into the conflict has introduced new…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Appraisement
Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Sydney, report that Wednesday marked the termination of a further stage in the appraisement of wool under the British…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Crops Estimate of Acreage Sown or to Be Sown
With a view to making an estimate of the area sown (or to be sown) to wheat in New South Wales during the current season. 1942-43, questionnaires…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →For the Man on the Land Contour Planting of Fruit Trees What Is a Dangerous Slope? Wheat Acreage
It is impossible to lay down any hard and fast rule as to what constitutes' a dangerous slope in land intended for fruit trees, observes Mr. J. A. Ballantyne, departmental fruit instructor, in a pamphlet on contour planting of orchard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Produce for Export Regulations Governing Packing
CANBERRA, Friday. — Revised regulations governing the cuality of the packing of dairy produce exported were announced to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Production Riverina Cows Do Well in Hero Improvement Scheme
The division of dairying, Department of Agriculture, supplies its report on the herd production improvement scheme for cows terminating their 273…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Labor for Potato Crop
SYDNEY, Friday. — The Lands Minister (Mr. Tully) said to-day that he was making representations to the Federal Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Foods Lack of Manpower May Cause Shortage
SYDNEY, Friday.— A leading spokesman for the dairy industry said to-day that unless something was done to prevent hundreds of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prospects for Junee Sheep and Cattle Safes Are As Good If Not Much Better, Than Any Previous Offering. the Prospects for the Sheep and Cattle Sale in Junee on Saturday Next Are Excellent. Nearly 5,600 Head of Sheep Have Been Listed for Sale
Shrewd Junee district graziers who remembered previous sales in j Junee, had no Qesitation m offering, lines to the auction…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Scheme Has Not Gone To Cabinet Yet
When tile Junee District Council of the Farmers and Sutlers' Association met recently and offered support for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Some Farmers Have Only Twenty Acres Under Crop in Junee District Owing To Continued Rain and Boggy Ground
SOME FARMERS IN THE' NORTH-WEST SECTION OF THE JUNEE REEFS DISTRICT HAVE AS LITTLE AS TWENTY ACRES OF THEIR 1942-43 WHEAT "CROP SOWN. THE POSSIBILITIES OF INCREASING THE ACREAGE UNDER CROP ARE…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WAGGA F.S.A. District Council Meeting Conference Resolutions Wheat, Erosion, Super
The Wagga District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of New South Wales met on Saturday at the M.P. and A.A…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Shortage of Labor on Farms
With the approach of the new wheat season, farmers in many areas have been somewhat perturbed concerning their harvesting prospects owing to the present acute shortage of labor. This feeling was ventilated at a conference in Sydney a few days ago,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Foods Lack of Manpower May Cause Shortage
A leading spokesman for the dairy industry said on Friday that unless something was done to prevent hundreds of dairy farms closing and…
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