800 Sheep Die Travelled After Dip COWRA
Eight hundred sheep out of a travelling flock of 1900, the property of Mr. George Limbers, have died. The sheep were dipped, and then…
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More Wool Association's Move Local Campaign
TO discuss wool publicity and possibly bring Australia into line with the Bradford campaign to use more…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Wool Publicity Conference Proposal Help Consumption
A special convention of the Graxders' Federal Council of Australia, meeting in Melbourne towards the end of January, will discuss…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dorset Stud Miss Harrison's Sheep to Go to Canowindra
IT was announced this week that Miss Joan Harrison, the well-known sheep breeder of Goulburn, has sold her Dorset Horn stud. comprising between…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →North Coast Butter Prices for December on a Low Level
THE North Coast Butter Factories' Association fixed the price of butter supplied during December at 6½d. per lb., the lowest price since last March. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter and Egg Exports Drop Shipments to U.k. Decrease
Exports of butter from Australia during the period July 1 to December 26. 1935, according to a report from the Department of Commerce, totalled 47,062 tons,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Council Warning Outcome Albury Wool Scouring Plant Closes
"It is a regrettable step and a serious loss to the town," said the Mayor of Albury, Alderman A. Waugh, yesterday, when commenting on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Want To Use More Australian Wool LONDON
A MEETING of leading Wool men in Bradford to-day approved of the hosiery trade's proposal to launch a campaign to encourage the use of wool, in view of the inroads made on the market by cotton, linen and ration, raising the possible alternatives of adapting existing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Board Gives Prizes for Dairy Farm Competition Twenty-five Guineas to be Won Milk Zone Suppliers Judging to be in Conjunction with "Farmer and Settler" Coastal Championship Improving Herds and Milk Quality
Prize money totalling 25-guineas is being offered by the Milk Board for a dairy farm competition to be conducted in conjunction with the 1936 "Farmers and Settler" coastal championship. This action has been taken to encourage farmers in producing a higher quality milk and improving…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →In the Riverina Farmers Menaced by Skeleton Weed Turn to Dairying as Sideline Size of Herd Depends on Feed Available
Dairying as a sideline is attracting the attention of many farmers in the Riverina, where there is a general tendency towards diversification of farming, particularly in the areas menaced by skeleton weed. At a recent southern conference of the Agricultural Bureau a senior departmental dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ford Wheat Proves Itself a Hay Yielder at Wagga
IN trials with wheat for hay at Wagga farm this season, Zealand and Flrwhill wheats gave the best yields of about 2-tons 14-owt. to the acre, with…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat at the Royal Show. Entries Close January 15
Growers are reminded that entries in the wheat classes at the coming Easter Show close on the 15th inst. Particulars of the classification may be obtained from the secretary,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Want Our Wool Bradford Men Anxious to line More
LEADING wool men in Bradford approved of the hosiery trade's proposal to launch a "use more wool" campaign, It was stated that, in order…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Firm Hardening Trend To-day's Sales 26d for Yass Lot
UNDER brisk competition, values at to-day's wool sales were very firm, the hardening tendency in rates being sustained…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Casein Wool Spectre Exorcised Substitute That Won't Wash London
BECAUSE sanctions are curtailing exports of gorgonzola, Italy is increasingly churning her surplus casein into substitute…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Less Wool for Germany Will Politicians Deprive Growers of Important Outlet for their Staple?
A cable this week stated that Germany expected to import less wool in 1930, and that only a very small proportion of her requirements would…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Shipment of Beef Cattle Arrives "Waiwera's" Cargo Imported Shorthorns to be Auctioned Before Easter High Class Stock From Scotland and Ireland
One of the largest and most valuable consignments of Shorthorn cattle ever to reach Australia arrived in Sydney this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool's Future. Opinion of Mr. M. H. Pickles. Scarcity of Operatives. (From Our Special Representative.) London, Jan. 8
The fact that there is a shortage of skilled operatives in Leeds, Bradford, Batley, and in other towns is regarded as confirmation of the prediction made by Mr. M. H. Pickles,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →More and Better Wheat Desire of the R.A.S. is to See an Intensification of Local Interest in Competitions
What part have the annual crop competitions played in the advance in wheat culture and in production? In what way could this stimulus to better farming be used as an Incentive to further and more general effort, to produce the maximum in grain yield, Quality anil value?…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →More Money for the Wool Clip Prices Rise Sales for the Past Six Months Realised £11,000,000 Big Improvement on 1934
The New Year has started well Cor wool growers. At the sales in Sydney, which opened on Monday, prices were about 5 per cent. higher, and the advance has been maintained for the remainder of the week. Wool sold in Sydney between 1st July and the end of December realised…
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