No-cropping Policy. Australian Suggestion. Perth
The president of the Australian Wheat-growers' Federation, Mr. T. H. Powell, has sent a letter to the organisations affiliated with the federation, suggesting that they…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Farming & the land, 1939
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Lord Bine At Short Quote Doubles for W. FARM Improvement Elect In January Berala Market
CLEAR-CUT favoritism for the Sefton Handicap at Warwick Farm to-morrow has been awarded Queenslander, Lord Bine, after his brilliant track display yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Buyers Attempt to Gain Control of Wool Sales Refused To Bid For Some Of The Star Lots F.S.A. Chief Sees Threat To Sydney Selling Centre Firm Stand by Growers Urged
DEVELOPMENTS during the present wool selling season point to the need for certain reforms in order to maintain the Sydney selling centre as the greatest wool auction market in the world and also…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wonder Wheat
THE French have some of the finest scientific achievements in the world to their credit, and they have now produced a new variety of wheat after 15…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Artificial Wool Menace
At all costs, the Australian wool industry Will have to be stabilised to meet the competition of stable fibre…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Demand Less Active
Millers having fulfilled their orders, the local wheat market was very quiet yesterday. Sellers were pressing, and the market…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Local Wheat Market Quiet
Little inclination to trade was shown in the Sydney wheat market to-day, and the only business recorded was some small sales of new…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Royal Show Wheat Entries
The closing date for entries in the wheat section for the Royal Easter Show has been extended to January, 18. This year the wheat classes have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fixing Season's Wheat Standard
The f.a.q. standard for New South Wales 1938-39 wheat will be fixed at the rooms of the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Fatally Injured by Sheep Tumut
A sheep caused the death of a pioneer of the Tumut district. Hugh McLeary. 74, of Mundongo. McLeary was handling a sheep on his property, when it butted him in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Great Losses From Soil Erosion. Fallowing Hastens the Process. Wheat Farms Depreciating
The problem of soil erosion has leapt into significance in Australia only within the last decade, but so seriously is it viewed by both the scientist and the practical farmer that a close study of its causes and of measures to combat it is now being made…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
The State Marketing Bureau (Department of Agriculture) advises as follows regarding local and overseas wheat values and sales:— Values elsewhere than in Sydney are expressed in English currency…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheaf Holme Another Wheat Cargo
The motor ship Sheaf Holme, which carried a cargo of wheat from Geraldton to India, is expected to arrive off the coast again from Calcutta about…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Forced Reduction Of Wheat Acreage
Any reduction of Australia's wheat acreage should result from natural economic conditions, and not be forced by legislation…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Load Wheat Dalcroy Due Sydney
The British steamer Dalcroy is due at Sydney on Tuesday from Western Australia to load a cargo of bulk wheat for discharge at the United Kingdom,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →German Grip on S. African Wool
CAPETOWN, Friday.--Germany is rapidly gaining a stranglehold on South Africa's wool industry. This is the result of barter…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Declining Butter Production. Exports to be Reduced. MELBOURNE
The Australian Dairy Produce Board reports that in view of the continued hot and dry weather, and the serious decrease in production throughout the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wheat Market. Sellers More Active. Slackening of Demand
Sellers were more active in the Sydney wheat market yesterday. The demand was quieter than on the previous day, however, and prices had…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Wool Trade. An Improved Market. Higher Values
Competition strengthened at this week's Sydney wool sales, and prices over the week showed an advance of par to 5 per cent. The rise was most…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy Farmers Suffer. Reduced Output. Effect of Dry Spell. Mullumbimby
Dairy farmers throughout the Northern Rivers will be the poorer by approximately £70,000 for December alone, as a result of the dry spell which…
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