Brisbane Wool Sales. Brisbane
The fifth series of wool sales was concluded today, when 11,820 bales were offered. Compared with the opening rates of the week, the market ruled very firm for good and average wools, but…
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Sheep Show Problems. The Stonehaven Cup. Altered Conditions
Because of difficulties that arose at last year's sheep show in Sydney in connection with the awarding of the Stonehaven Cup—one of the most…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Big Wool Display For Royal Show
TO assist in encouraging an Australian wool-consciousness, and to help dissipate any ideas that might exist as to the virtues of synthetic wool, a…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →S. African Wool Prices Above Australian
Bradford wool makers point out that German methods have forced the price of South African wools above world levels, says a London message…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →China Re-enters A list. Wheat Trade
IT was announced late last week that a cargo of between 7000 and 8000 tons of South Australian wheat had been loaded for shipment to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Market. Firmer Tone. Better Demand Abroad
The Sydney wheat market had a firmer tone yesterday as the result of improved demand for Australian cargoes, and advances in British and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Market for 10 Million Bus. Lost, Says Wheat Shipper. Farmers Fail to Meet Market F.A.Q. IS 64½ LB
THE failure of New South Wales farmers to meet the market this year in the sale of their wheat, thereby causing the State to lose…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rapid Rise in Output of Synthetic Wool
The rapid increase in production of synthetic wool in Germany, Japan, and Italy is the subject of a report by the Acting Agent-General for New…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →Old Silo Wheat to Be Sold by Tender
SINCE the Wheat Commissioner (Col. Holborrow) announced Borne weeks ago that silo wheat of the 1937-38 season must be cleared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Sales of U.S. Wheat to Britain
ABOLITION of the Empire wheat preference is considered to be mainly responsible for the large purchases…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Canadian "Wheat King" Suggests a Sit-down Strike
CROWNED wheat and barley champion at the 1938 Toronto Royal Winter Fair, Mr. Nels Linden, of Alberta, described as Canada's new…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain is Urgently Needed in Most Stales' Pastoral Areas Australian Outlook Surveyed
PRACTICALLY the whole of New South Wales is in need of rain. Where there is feed, mainly in the north, north-west and central west, it has dried off. Drought conditions prevail in a number of southern, south-western, coastal and Hunter River…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Facts about FARMING in other COUNTRIES False Teeth for Dairy Cows
ACCORDING to a Moscow newspaper false teeth are being worn by a number of cows in a dairying district of Soviet Russia. Cattle on…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Publicity for Wool. Exhibit at Show. Oversea Campaign Plans
To encourage the use of wool in Australia, and to combat claims that synth[?]tic wool is as good as the genuine aiticle, the New South…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →P.A.Q. Wheat. Fixed at 64½Lb. Samples Number 422
The. f.a.q. standard of New South Wales wheat was fixed yesterday at 64½b a bushel for bagged and bulk. This is the second highest figure ever…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Cut Costs to Solve Wheat Problem to the Editor of "The Land."
Sir,—When considering the homt price wheat scheme, which has resulted in the handing out of a sixpenny dole to the grower and raising the price of bread to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Around the Northern Beef Cattle Studs Abington Blacks Stood Up to Dry Spell—Willow Loppings for Cattle—Woman Breeder's Success with Herefords—Ban Ban Devons—Classy Young Bull at Windsor Stud
THE manner in which Mr. Norman Forster's Aberdeen-Angus at Abington, Armidale, have come through the dry spell is convincing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Market News and Reviews of the Week Wool Market Brisbane Has Slightly Easier Tendency Prospects for Sydney Next Week
THE Brisbane and London wool sales have continued during the past week, and, although there have been no…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Millers Pocketing Share of Home Price? Growers Complain That Flour Tax Is Too Low Cannot Return 5/2d. a Bushel Wheat Industry Seeks Change
SUGGESTIONS that the amount of the flour tax, imposed under the provisions of the home price wheat scheme, has been fixed on too low a basis, with the result that farmers will not receive the full home…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hot, Dry Weather Kills Farm Pests
FARM pests have been reduced in some districts by the recent hot, dry weather. The Dunedoo district stock…
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