Vast Pig Farm to Be Set Up in Queensland
MELBOURNE, Thursday: Several hundred thousands of acres in Queensland are to be used as a vast pig farm and granary by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1948
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Food For Britain Production Drive Leeton Farmers and Their Friends Requested to Make Picnic Outing to Wagga
GREAT Britain is looking to Australia as the only country where it is possible to receive extra foodstuffs, and as the Mother Land is not looking for charity, here is a golden opportunity for the farmers to build up the productiveness of their land to their own monetary…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Batlow Junior Farmers Invited To Advisory Committee Meetings
"We should bring them to our meetings and get them to fraternise with us, and then I think we might be able to get the Junior Farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga Full-time Sheep and Wool Class
The full-time sheep and wool class at the Wagga Technical College has vacancies for a further ten students…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japan to Buy Aust. Wool
TOKYO. Friday (A.A.P.): Japan would begin buying wool at Australian auctions almost immediately, but purchases were not likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Items of News High Price for Wagga Wool
The high price of 821/2d was realised for a bale saaw wool on account of Mrs. E. Mc. W. Paton, of Spring Gully. Wagga, at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Prices to Dairy Farmers Fadden Attacks Government
“The Chifley Government’s rejection of the dairy industry representatives’ majority recommendation of 2/1½d a lb to farmers for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Color of Butter
"Consumers" look upon the yellow color of butter 'as the trademark of this product, and depend on the characteristic color as a means of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Coolac Wool to 81d
At our Sydney auction of the 17th instant, we brought forward a selection of wools drawn from a large range of districts covering…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →82½D for Wagga Wool
Mrs. E. McPaton, of Spring Gully, Wagga, has received notice from the Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co. Ltd., that…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Yanco Experiment Farm Field Day Marks Transfer to Department of Agriculture
"This occasion is a milestone in the history of the Murrumnbidgee Irrigation Area said the minister for Agriculture. Mr.Graham, at a Field Day…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Rush for Farms at Wagga
MELBOURNE. Monday Application from every state in Australia have been pouring in to the Catholic Rural Movement for the 50 small…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rush for CRM Farms at Wagga
MELBOURNE. Sunday Applications from every State in Australia have been pouring in to the Catholic Rural Movement…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Gundagai Farmer Must Cut Noxions Weeds Shire Will Prosecute Unless Work Carried Out
Unless one Gundagai farmer cuts noxious weeds on his property, the Shire will prosecute him. This decision was reached at last…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Temora Sheep and Cattle Sale
Mr. W. J. Porter reports yarding 6,282 sheep and 54 cattle at his monthly stock sale to a strong gathering of buyers from Wagga,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Research Station for Wagga
A wheat research institute to cost approximately £37,000 will be built at the Wagga Experiment Farm shortly. The Minister for Agriculture (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fall in High Class Merino Wool
Australia is now growing annually only about 116,000 bales of merino wool of 10's to 90's quality. The number of bales of choicest speciality…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Premier on Speedy Loading of Wheat Ships
SYDNEY, Monday: Inquiries were made by the Department of Agriculture last year into the use of mechanical…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Production Maximum Cost Fixed at 6/
The maximum cost of wheat production in Australia was 6- a busbel with a minimum cost of 4/8 a bushel according to varying circumstances…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →66 Per Cent of Wool Clip Sold
SYDNEY, Mon: This years' estimated Australian wool clip of 3,061,000 bales is now about 66 per cent, sold, according to…
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