Sheep Sale at Nyngan
A preliminary notice appears in this issue advertising a special sheep sale to be held at Nyngan trucking yards, on Tuesday, January 28, when 12,000 store sheep will be offered…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Farming & the land, 1936
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Heavy Mortality in Sheep
COWRA, Thursday.—Mr. W. J. Smith, stock inspector for the Young Pastures Protection Board, has completed an investigation into the loss of 800 head of sheep out of a…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Week in Wheat
The Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation, Ltd., reports on the wheat market this week as follows: — OVERSEAS MARKET…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Newcastle Wool Sales
"Nenco" at Newcastle will submit its sixth catalogue of the season on January 16, comprising approximately 3000 bales. The wool will be drawn from the districts of Armidale,…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Sydney Wool Offerings
Roster arrangements provide for the submission of 486,000 bales of wool in Sydney between January 6 and April 2, but that total will not be…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →New Season's Wheat Receipts
Wheat receipts at New South Wales Government grain elevators for the season 1935-36 to January 9 were 24,231,000 bushels at country silos and 282,000 bushels at the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Very Quiet
Very quiet conditions ruled in the city wheat market yesterday, reflecting the position overseas. A few odd parcels of bulk wheat were offering at 3/9¼, with an occasional buyer…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Testing Wheat For Bread
Mr. G. W. Norris, assistant analyst, at Work in the wheat testing laboratory at the Department of Agriculture. Attached to the laboratory is a small baking plant, and it is here that wheat grown on the Government experiment farms is tested for its baking qualities…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prices of Wheat Are Lowered
There was a further fall in the price of wheat on the local market yesterday, due, according, to brokers to the quiet and easy…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Further Slight Fall In Wheat
Although there was no pressure to sell, silo,,wheat,was offering on the local market yesterday at 39½ a bushel. An occasional buyer differed…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Six Horses Killed By Wheat
AS a result, it is believed, of a bag of wheat having fallen from a lorry and been eaten by horses, Mr. R. M. Kelly, of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Contests and the Farmer Educational Importance of R.A.S. Field 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,…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Expenses of Importing Pedigreed Cattle Melbourne
The Department of Commerce announced to-day that it would contribute towards expenses incurred in the importation of pedigreed cattle,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Spoilt Hides Barbed Wire and Horned Cattle
Damage done to the hides of cattle by barbed-wire and horns,, thus prejudicing their subsequent conversion into leather, was remarked upon…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Skeleton Weed Sheep as Instruments of Control
ACCORDING to a report received by the Department of Agriculture from Mr. L. Judd, agricultural instructor, the value of sheep as a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Wool Brokers and Pro
DUCE CO., LTD., report: At opening sales of the year a keen and animated demand was in evidence from Yorkshire, Japan and the Continent. The best lines of fleece wool showed…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Hobart Wool Sales Hobart
The general tone of the market was about 5 per cent, above Melbourne rates and on a par with Sydney at the Hobart wool sales…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Shipment of Stud Cattle. Shorthorns and Aberdeen Angus
The motor vessel Waiwera, which arrived in Sydney yesterday, brought a consignment of valuable stud beef cattle. This included seven Shorthorn bulls, two Shorthorn heifers,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Painters' Dangerous Task — Directional Wireless Station — Imported Cattle
The repainting of the T. and G. Building at the corner of Elizabeth and Park streets, involves hazardous work. The pictures above and at the right show the painters at their precarious task. The new directional wireless station near Mascot aerodrome which is…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Leading Grower Here For Wool Sales
Mr. W. T. Merriman (right), of Yass, one of Australia's leading wool growers, and Mr. G. B. Phillips, a valuer, look over part of Mr. Merriman's clip in store at Pyrmont…
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