Victorian Wheat Harvest Will Exceed Estimate
REPORTS from Victoria indicate that the wheat outlook in that State is favorable and that the first estimate of…
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Stock Sales. Prices at Flemington. Sheep Market Unaltered
There were 62,490 sheep and lambs penned at Flemington saleyards yesterday, from 476 owneis. The supply was made up of 34.200 sheep and 28,200 lambs. It was the largest…
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THE opening sales of the second half of the 1937-38 wool selling season took place in Sydney on Moilday and auctions were continued…
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THE Premier of South Australia (Mr. Butler) has stated that one of the basic problems facing the State in the new year is to ensure,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increasing Wheat Yields on Skeleton Weed Country
THE addition of one cwt, of sulphate of ammonia to the fertiliser dressing applied to wheat crop trials conducted in medium infested…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Trade. Receivals at Stores. Melbourne
From figures compiled by the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia, it is revealed that 2,449,397 bales had reached woolbrokers' stores at December 31, 1937, being…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Bleaching Improves Milling and Baking Quality of Wheat
THE milling and baking quality of both hard and soft wheats were considerably improved by severe bleaching, according to tests carried cut by experts of the Department of Agriculture…
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"UNDOUBTEDLY the grading systerns in other countries are being vastly improved, and I think it will be extremely unfortunate if Australia does…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Blowfly Control Methods to be Tested on Moree Station
A LARGE-SCALE investigation of the control of blowfly strike in Moree district, states Mr. W. B. Gur This has been made possible by…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →How U.S. is Tackling Menace of Erosion Farm Erosion Subsidy When Change is Made to a "Soil Conserving" Crop Farmers' Part in Campaign
SOME striking instances of the damage caused by wind and water erosion in the United States and Canada are given by Dr. H. C. Forster, Inspector of Agriculture in Victoria, who for the past two years has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Coastal Dairy Production Increasing Falling-off Inland Due to Hot and Dry Conditions Careless Farm Methods Criticised
DAIRY instructors' reports for December, made available this week by the Director of Dairying (Mr. L. T. McInnes), show that coastal districts for the most part experienced good seasonal conditions, resulting in increased milk and cream…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Technical Offence, Said K.C. Dairy Farmers Coy. Is Fined Test Case
WHAT will become a test case arises out of the prosecution of the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co., Ltd., which was fined £5 at…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Former Naval Vessel To Load Wheat At Western Australia
The former Italian naval vessel Barbana G, which is reported chartered to load wheat at a Western Australian port for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →False Alarm. "Human Remains in Bag" Were Sheep's Bones. Parkes
The western division police office at Parkes reports that on the night of January 4 a man told the Condobolin police that he had found a bag in the river, 25 miles from Condobolin,…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Wool Sales. Best Lines Firm. Highest Price This Season
At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday, 11,485 bales were catalogued. The clearance, including private sales of passed-in and fellmongered wools, amounted to 9710 bales, as…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle Wool Sales Free Competition and a Good Clearance
"NENCO" for its sixth sale of the season yesterday (Thursday) submitted a catalogue of 4346 bales, consisting mainly of clips from the tablelands, several from the…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Win for N.S.W. Wheat at Chicago Grain Show
ENTRIES made by the Royal Agricultural Society on behalf of Australian growers won several prizes in the wheat section of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Week's Sydney Wool Sales Prices Down Poorer Class Wools Chielly Affected
COMPARED with closing sales in December, spinners' wool, in the grease, sold at the Sydney wool sales this…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Dry Weather Now Causing Concern Ledgworth Clip Effect on Water Supplies & Pastures in Wheat Areas Instructors Review Harvest
HOT, dry weather, which proved ideal for harvesting, has continued throughout the wheat belt and is responsible for depleted water supplies and sparse pastures. The dry weather, however, has retarded further hatchings of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Harvest May Total 57 Million Bushels Before the Sales Yield Shows Increase on Last Official Estimate Silo Receivals Tell Story
As wheat harvesting has proceeded in this State the estimate of the State yield has taken a surprising turn. It is now considered by experts that the yield is certain to exceed 50 million bushels and may reach a…
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