Effect of Franc on Wool-Marketing
SYDNEY, Monday: "The devaluation of the franc may encourage the investment of money in wool in hard-currency nations, which in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1948
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50 Per Cent. Drop in Wool Exports
Australian exports of greasy wool in the first half year of the 1947-48 financial year were nearly 50 per cent. below those for the same period of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miss New Zealand Wears Wool for Overseas Trip
Twenty-year-old Miss Mary Wootton, who has won the recently concluded "Miss New Zealand" Quest, will leave by air for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Minister Replies to Comment on U.k. Wheat Sale
MELBOURNE, Monday: According to a public statement by Mr. G. Evans, president of the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Association, the price…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Temporary Hay Baler How to Improvise From a Wool Press
Many inland farmers growing lucerne, either under irrigation or grazing areas, at times have suitable cuts which would make excellent hay…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer Fined £20 for Not Feeding Horses
A Barmedman farmer who said he would not accept £1000 for one of his show horses was fined £20 at the Wyalong Police Court for not…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Single Farms Official Information Conncerning New Law
It is not so long ago that Country Party, candidates especially, were fighting to secure for ex-servicemen the privilege of securing single farm…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Sentenced on Drought Relief Charge
At Balranald Court recently, Angus Graham McLennan, of Swan Hill, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wheat Diverted
LONDON, Tuesday (A.A.P.): A Foreign Office spokesman said that Britain, to prevent wheat stocks in Iraq running out before the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lockhart Wheat Fire
LOCKHART, Tuesday: A fire occurred last night at the farm of Dan O'Connell. Urangeline, but prompt action by the district fire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Melb. Prices Firm at Wool Sales
MELBOURNE, Tuesday: Horsham wool branded H/HM brought the top price of 104d a lb at to-day's Melbourne wool auctions…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Featured in Paris Spring Fashions
Softly feminine are the Paris spring fashions, and wool fabrics have never been more popular, for the new line, depending on the cut…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Buyers Keen at Sydney Wool Sales
SYDNEY, Tuesday: All the best features of the previous day's auctions were again in evidence at the Sydney wool sales today…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Harvest Survey Estimate Yield of 105 Million Bushels
At the direction of the Minister, Messrs. H. Bartlett, principal agronomist, and G. Nicholson, special agronomist, of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Britain's Huge Farm Project in Africa
Film experts will shortly leave Britain for work in East and Central Africa where they are to photograph what Britain is doing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Minister Takes Over Yanco Farm Today
LEETON, Tuesday: A large attendance of farmers, orchardists and graziers throughout the M.I.A. is expected tomorrow when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Grape Crops Fail Near Albury
ALBURY, Tuesday: Grape crops at Newtown, near Albury, are almost a total failure this year. This means a total loss of about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junee Dairyman Found That Oat Crop Reduced Butter Content of Milk
The care which has to be exercised by a dairyman was emphasised in the Junee Court of Petty Sessions last week when…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Wool Report
Winchcombe Carson, Ltd. wired us early today: We sold 6900 bales of wool at our Sydney auction yesterday. Values were strongly maintained at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Wool Market Firm
SYDNEY, Wednesday: Under animated and sustained competition from all sections, the buyers' market at today's wool sales…
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