Crop Rotation
SOME authorities believe that Australian farmers are at last realising the fact that it is impossible to crop land year in year out without depleting it of…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Farming & the land, 1938
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Empire Young Farmers. Visit to Australia. Junior Farmers' Camp
A marked step in developing the fellowship of young farmers of the Empire has taken place in the acceptance by junior farmer movements In England. Scotland, Ireland,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Electricity in Crop Production. Ambit of Usefulness. Glasshouse and Soil Heating
Because of the climate, the possibilities of using electricity in crop production are not as pronounced in Australia as in colder countries, but sufficient experience has been gained…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Produce. Dairy
Owing to the holiday on Monday, double deliveries had to be made yesterday and city dairy houses were consequently very busy. Good trading is anticipated in the coming months…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →'Hopper Menace: Farmers' Fears
Grasshoppers are still causing anxiety in many parts of the State, and farmers and pastoralists fear that another outbreak may occur during early autumn…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Truck Driver Shot Thrice, Same Gun Attended Inquest in Custody Inquest Evidence: Death Almost Instantaneous Farmer Saw Car, Two Men on Road Melbourne
THREE bullet wounds were found in the body of John Thomas Demsey, 39, truck driver, of Essen- don, the Government Pathologist (Dr. C. H. Mollision) said at the inquest today…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Do Sheep and Cattle "Synchronise"?
A WELL-KNOWN New England grazier, announcing the dispersal of his cattle stud, declared that he was doing so because…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cattle Sales
John V. Tully, well-known auctioner and estate agent, of Liverpool, will begin with a big yarding at the first cattle sale of the year next Saturday, January…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter for Export
During the week ended January 1, the Commonwealth graders examined for export the following quantities (in boxes) of butter: At Sydney, 18.017 boxes salted, 668…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Bleached Wheat
TAT the past millers have docked wheat farmers, some-times very heavily, for bleached wheat, on the alleged grounds…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Notes
DETAH[?] of a programme of scientific rea[?]ch were approved at a joint meeting of the International Wool Publicity and Research Secretar[?] held in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →New Butter Records Are Likely
IT [?]as estimated that for the year ending 30th June, 1938, production of factory butter in New South Wales toould be at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Melbourne Cattle Sales. Melbourne
At the stock sales at Flemington to-day the offering consisted of 1800 fat bullocks and in the young cattle section about 1600 head were penned. A sho[?]age of prime station beef classes…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Polled Cattle from United States
THE Steamer due this month with thirty-three Poll Shorthorns for Mr. E. L. Killen's Antrim stud, Pine Park, Mumbll, will also have on board a Polled…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat, Grasshoppers and War
"TU[?]Y, J.H.S." [?].—Only those who have seen wheat in [?]lages of [?] development can fully understand the term "the waving fields of wheat." Once the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Breadstuffs. Wheat Market Firmer
The Sydney wheat market was firmer yesterday as a result of the advances in values in all of the leading grain exchanges overseas. Trading was quiet, however, due to the paucity…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Slight Rise in Wheat Prices
The tone of the Sydney wheat market was firmer to-day, following a rise in Liverpool options. Chicago and Winnipeg futures declined slightly,…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Easier Wool Values America Absent
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The variation in wool values this week has been due to the reduction in Japanese purchasing compared with December, the continued absence of American buying and less settled conditions in Europe. The…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Price at Wool Sales
A new record price for the season was established at the Sydney wool sales this afternoon, when a local operator paid 29d for five bales of an…
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