COMMERCIAL Wool Report
Interest this week has been centred on the wool sales at Brisbane, where, new records prices have been established…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming & the land, 1948
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Aust. Wheat Lies Idle in Ship
WELLINGTON Fri (A.A.P.-Reuter): Waterside gangs refused to remove the hatches of a ship when it berthed today with 9000 tons of bagged wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Battle for Citrus Markets Huge Crop in Sight
Citrus growers are not at all happy. They look like having a record crop in all States, but the disparity between what they are receiving and what the public are paying for excellent quality fruit is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.s. Farmers Interested in Australia
"What are the prospects for young American farmers in Australia?" That is one of the most frequent questions…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited. 14th May, 1948
We submitted a catalogue of 3680 bales on Thursday, 13th instant, the selection including a number of Autumn shorn wools from the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Farming Adventure Is Race Against Time Reclamation Scheme Aims to Save Land From the Sea and to Produce Crops in Two Years
Seventeen farmer have combined with engineers to undertake a big reclamation scheme on the east coast of Britain which will win a large area of New arable land from the sea. In a race against time and tide, they have set themselves the task of building a sea…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vermiculite, New Lightweight Mineral, Has Advantages in Farm Buildings
Vermiculite is a newly developed mineral weighing only six to eight pounds per cubic foot, as Against 100 1bs for sand. As a substitute…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Improvement of Wool Quality Importance Of Regular Sheep Classing
There can be no doubt about the eventual come-back of synthetic fibres and the menace they present to the woolgrowing industry, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Improvement in Wool Quality Importance of Regular Sheep Classing
There can be no doubt about the eventual come-back of synthetic fibres and the menace they present to the wool growing industry and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Report
THE FARMERS AND GRAZIERS' CO-OPERATIVE GRAIN INSURANCE AND AGENCY COMPANY LIMITED reports under date 14th MAY, 1948:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Winter Shelter for Sheep
Insufficient provision for shelter of stock is a weakness in the management of many pastoral holdings, warns E. A. Elliott,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Inspector's Report Pastoral Outlook Promising
The following report was presented by the Stock Inspector (Mr. W. B. Harding) to the monthly meeting of the Narandera P.P. Board on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →£15-Millions for 1947-48 Crop
More than £15,000,000 will be paid to wheatgrowers in advance for the the 1947-48 wheat in No. 11 Pool, the Minister for Commerce (Mr. Pollard)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Produce Factory Operatives School Of Instruction At Hawkesbury Agricultural College
A school of instruction for persons employed in dairy produce factories and in the various phases of the milk and associated industries is to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Film Review "The Farmer's Daughter"
The current show at the Capitol Theatre, "The Farmer's Daughter," is an excellent dramatic comedy loaded with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wamoon Extension Group Chemistry in Farming
MR. N. G. Cassidy, Acting Officer-in-Charge of the C.S.I.R. Irrigation Research Station, Griffith, discussed the use of chemistry in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Single Unit Farms
Mr. James Sharpe, secretary of the Leeton sub-branch of Returned Soldiers' League, has received, word that the Single Unit Farms Purchase…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Its Rivals
Winchcombe Carson report:— Post-war wool selling experiences have certainly "burst the bubble" of synthetic fibres menacing the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Record State Wool Price at Adelaide
ADELAIDE, Tuesday: A new State record of 87d per lb was made at the Adelaide woolsales today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wagga Dairy Cattle Sale
A penning of approximately 500 head dairy cattle was submitted to auction at Wagga on Monday 24th inst, by Australian Mercantile Land…
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