Improved Milk Supply. Board's Advice. Cooling on Farms
Recently the Milk Board informed country factories and subtuban dairymen that it considered a decided improvement in the quality of the milk…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming & the land, 1939
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Murder on Farm. Woman Killed with Axe. Brother Wounded. Man Detained
Miss Constance Sommerlad, 38, was found dead, and her brother, Eric, 25, was found seriously injured at a farm at Hillcrest, near Tenterfield, on…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Murder at Farm Search For Clues TENTERFIELD
Detective J. Rogers, of the C.I.B. scientific branch, is systematically combing the house in which Miss…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Boys on Farms Exploited By Govt
"The eggs from the poultry attended by boys at Government Agricultural Colleges are flooded on to the market…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Man Arrested After Farm Tragedy Charged With Theft Of Missing Truck BRISBANE
John Trevor Kelly, 25, was arrested today and charged with having stolen a utility motor truck. The truck was the property of Eric Sommerlad 25 [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bumper Rice Crop in Jeopardy Growers Will Consider Legal Action If Water Cut Off
Legal action against the State Government will be considered by rice growers in the Murrumbidgee irrigation area if their water supply is cut off. This has been decided by a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool and Cotton
The increased confidence recently evident in values for wool has also been noticeable in cotton. Those two raw mateilals are the worlds great natural textile fibres, and their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Eases On Quiet Trade
Quiet and slightly easier conditions again prevailed in the local wheat market yesterday. Sellers were not pressing, while buyers moved cautiously…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →High Prices at Wool Sales
Fine quality clips from the New England and Yass districts brought high prices at today's wool sales. The wools showed much…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Prices Rise 5 Per Cent
Wool prices were 5 per cent, higher in Sydney yesterday. This was attributed to keen buying by Yorkshire, the Continent, and Japan…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Market. Narrow Inquiry. Absence of Sellers
The Sydney wheal, market had a steady tone yesterday. Little business was done. Inquiry was narrow, and there was an absence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Short Sleeved Jumper in 3-Ply Wool
Readers may obtain instruction for knitting this jumper by sending the cutting together with stamped, addressed envelope to "Knitwear. 9th floor. "The Sun," 60 Elizabeth-street, Sydney, or they may apply in person, bringing the cutting with them to the above address…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →London Wool Sales First Series of 1939
The first series of the 1939 London wool sales terminated on Friday, Feb. 3. A total of 109,800 bales was submitted, of which 91,500 were sold,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sydney. Wharves Busy. Varied Cargoes. Wool Fleet Loading
Produce from all corners of the world was unloaded on Sydney wharves yestetday from a large fleet of oversea ships which reached the pott over the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool Sales. Japanese Competition. Well-grown Lines Firmer
At the, wool sales yesterday 10,032 bales were catalogued. The clearance, including private sales of passed-in and fellmongered wools, amounted to 10,858 bales as under:—…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Wool. Corriedale Exhibit for U.S.A.
An exhibition of fleece from Correledale sheep in Austialia will be staged at the Golden Gate Exposition at San Francisco this yeal. This was decided by the Council of the Australasian…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the Land Beef Cattle in Doldrums. Herd Depreciation, Dispersal of Leading Studs
The bad season and years of low prices for bulls have had a depressing effect on the stud beef cattle industry. As a result, several prominent studs…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Menace of Wool Substitutes. Improved Staple Fibre. the Merino Crimp
The fact that manufacturers of staple fibre have succeeded in crimping it like merino wool is evidence of their determination to go on experimenting…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Non-shrinkable Wool. Claim of New Method of Production. LONDON, Feb. 6
A new method of producing non-shrinkable wool, using "enzymes"—completed substances in living cells—is disclosed in the report of the Department of Scientific and Industilal…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Splendid Maize Crops. Wyong Competition
Despite the arduous season, some excellent maize crops were submitted for the field maize competition conducted by the Wyong District Agricultural Association…
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