F.A.Q. Wheat Fixed at 6½lb
The grain trade section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce has fixed the standard of fair average quality wheat in Now South Wales this season…
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Some Farmers Thrash Machinery for Want of Mechanical Knowledge
WITH so much farm machinery in use on the Irrigation Area, it is hard to understand why there are so few farmers, or…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →COMMERCIAL Temora Sheep Market
W. J. Porter reports yarding 6282 sheep and 54 cattle at his monthly stock sale to a strong gathering of buyers from…
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 the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Top Prices
Winchombe Carson Ltd. report: Although prices for tops in Bradford, have moved upward recently, their advance has not been as great as…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance Agency Company Limited
We submitted a generally attractive catalogue of 8310 bales on Wednesday, 18th instant. The selection included quite a number of spinners' wools,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Stabilisation Difficult Problems Still to be Solved
Commenting on the outcome of the recent meeting of the Australian Agricultural Council, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. E. H. Graham, said that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Selection Dairy Cows Some Useful Pointers
Many dairymen who do not keep records of their cows are obliged to rely on outward appearance when selecting new stock…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wagga Experiment Farm First-Year Hawkesbury Diploma Course Opened at Wagga
The first-year Hawkesbury Agricultural College Diploma in Agriculture Course at Wagga Experiment Farm was opened officially by the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Soil Conservation Amendment Act Advances Available to Farmers for Land Reclamation
The Soil Conservation (Amendment) Act, 1948, which will be administered by the Department of Conservation, came into operation on 1st…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Report
We submitted a generally attractive catalogue of 8,310 bales on Wednesday, 18th instant. The selection included quite a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Most of Wheat Crop Already in Board's Hands
CANBERRA, Wednesday: Already 180 million bushels of the expected 200 million bushel wheat crop for 1947-48 had been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Gundagai Sheep Go to Hills
The annual exodus of sheep from Gundagai district to the hill country will finish this month…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Best Country Show In N.S.W. Gundagai’s Triumph Cattle, Sheep, Horses and Produce Reflect Amazing Productivity of Grand District
Reflecting the amazing productivity of a truly remarkable district the 57th annual Show, held under the auspices of the Gundagai P. and A. Society has been justly acclaimed as the outstanding country exhibition in N.S.W. Numerically exhibits its were strong in all sections, whilst the quality of the cattle, sheep, horses and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →January Butter Output Best Since Pre-War
SYDNEY, Wednesday: The butter output of 5073 tons for last January was the best January output since before the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.i.s. Stud Cattle for Darbalara
Seven Lead of A.I.S. stud cattle have been purchased by Mr. L. F. Bower, of Darbalara. The cattle arrived in Gundagai…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Excellent Sheep Show Splendid Exhibit Attracts Interest
Great interest centered around the sheep sections, especially the Merino, Romney Marsh and Fat sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Section Surpassed All Previous Years
Perhaps the section that received the greatest boost was the display of wool. It was the larges and most comprehensive collection of Fleeces ever to be exhibited at Gundagai. The number of exhibits exceeded…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →At This Week’s Gundagai Show— Cattle A Revelation Seventeen Studs Compete for Honors Display Even Greater Than Previous Years
An outstanding feature of the Gundagai Show of the past two years the cattle exhibition at this week s Show a revelation. Numerically stronger than last year’s record exhibition, seventeen well known studs competed in what can be truthfully termed the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young Ex-soldier Farmer Dies From Rare Skin Disease
Alter suffering from an obscure skin complaint that puzzled doctors and skin specialists, Mr. Herbert Howarth, of Darby's Falls, died in the Prince…
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