Threat to Wool Use of "Shoddy" in Australia
"SHODDY" is a material made from wool waste outlines and old woollen garments reduced to fibre and refabricated. The Commonwealth…
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New Wool Hopes Research Can Help Australia's Flockmasters
PASTORALISTS throughout Australia will find new hope in the latest activity of the Wool Secretariat, in London. Last week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grading of Wheat Urged to Replace F.a.q
Objecting to the system of fixing a "f.a.q." standard, the chairman of the N.S.W. Flourmillers' Association (Mr. Alec Sutherland) to-day urged the adoption of an Australian-wide system of grading of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Import Costs Too High, Say Cattle Breeders Association Formed "Charges Terrific"
THE first measure to be undertaken by the newly formed United Stud Beef Cattle Breeder's Association of Australia, will be a concerted effort…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →London Wool Sales. Fairly Active Demand. London, Jan. 24
At the London wool sales to-day, the selection was good, consisting chiefly of Australian merinos. The demand was fairly active, and offerings were well distributed…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat Surplus Margin Might Diminish If Seasons Abroad were Poor
"THE general opinion of the Department of Commerce is that there is no immediate prospect of a marked improvement in the price of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool Prices Raised by German Competition Position in South Africa
"I SHOULD be surprised to learn that South African wool growers have any complaints to make of an arrangement under which Germany…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Variety Scores Well in Wheat Trials South-west Slopes Results
WHEAT experiments amongst farmers in the south-western slopes area this season resulted in heavy scoring for…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Sugar Control Success Gives Wheat A Lead, Is Suggestion LONDON
Contrasting the buoyancy of the sugar market -- the result of international co-operation -- with the depression in the market for other…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Synthetic Wool Menace. Mass Production. Activities in Germany, Japan, and Italy
The Premier, Mr. Stevens, has been advised by the Acting Agent-General for New South Wales in London, Mr. C. H. Hay, that the manufacture of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →— on the Land — Marketing of Butter. Co-operation With New Zealand. P.D.S. Manager's Views
Co-operation with New Zealand on the London butter market would produce a rich reward for both Australia and New Zealand producers, said Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →£30,000,000 Firm Reported to Be Coming Here Possibility Of Factory For Wool Substitute
A REPORT that Courtauld's, £30,000,000 manufacturing organisation, planned to open a £1,000,000 factory in Australia, was discussed in Sydney yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Among the N.S.W. Beef Cattle Studs Devons and Polled Herefords Make Headway in South Fires Cause Damage at Yass
MR. P. C. KENSIT, of Aubyn Vale Devon stud, Narrawa, via Crookwell, thinks that importations of recent times, and those now being made must greatly improve the Devon breed in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Poultry Farmers' Losses Government Grant Wanted
Poultry farmers throughout the County of Cumberland suffered heavy losses in the recent [?]cessive heat, and at a meeting of the N.S.W. Poultry…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Orchard and Farm News
LAST year a number of orchardists was fined for failure to register. This is stated by the Minister for Agriculture (Major Reid) in a note passed on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Must Act Producers and the Dairy Board
"POWER given to the Australian Dairy Produce Board by the Act under which it is constituted are as wide as could be wished to control our export…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Housewives and Stud Keepers Girl Junior Farmers in Sydney Pioneer Tour Is Great Success
"I WOULD like to congratulate you girls upon the initiative you have shown in making this tour," said Mr. E. Breakwell, Senior Supervisor of the Junior Farmers' Clubs, in an address of welcome to thirty members of the Lismore District clubs, upon their arrival in Sydney last week…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Efficient Plant a Farm Necessity Nowadays
ONCE more the harvest just past has demonstrated that the properly equipped farmer is the one who gains the greatest yield per acre. Now is the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →At Tumut Farmers Discuss Fodder Conservation Plant Diseases
"OUR desire is to discuss fodder conservation, not so much from the competition aspect, as to the direction of your attention to our wish…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SYMPATHY From New Zealand Farmers
"OUR organisation regrets very much great loss and suffering of primary producers of Australia through disastrous fires, and would like you to convey our…
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