North Coast Farmers Find that Wheat is Satisfactory in the Ration for Pigs
WHEAT is being fed to pigs with success on the North Coast, according to a statement made this week by the senior piggery…
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Millions on Rival to Wool
America is building a £2,000,000 factory to make synthetic fibre from coal, water and air…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Market. Buyers Absent. American Competition
Values were steady in the Sydney wheat market yesterday, but the turnover was negligible. Many buyers were absent, and sellers…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farm Sidelines for Profit Turkeys and Poultry are Likely Avenues with Wheat Prices at Low Ebb
ONCE again circumstance has demonstrated how inadvisable is the practice of the farmer who has all his eggs in one basket. Wheat is down to depression levels and the wise man is he who has a variety of sidelines on which he can rely for an income. Pigs, fat lambs, poultry and turkeys immediately, suggest themselves. Of these four the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sheep Tick Keep them Down Quarantine and Dipping
COMPARED with lice, ticks are a secondary trouble. When present in large numbers they cause the sheep to scratch, rub, and bite at the fleece…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Average Wool; Top Price, 16½d
Most of the offerings at to-day's wool sales were only of average quality. Few of the bigger buyers were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Sucking Louse Colonies Get Together on Sheep's Body
THE sucking louse is not very common, but is difficult to get rid of. It is not so evenly distributed on the body as the biting louse, being confined to…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool and Cotton Continental Demand For Former
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: The increased confidence latterly evident in values for wool has also been noticeable in cotton…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local Wool Australian Carpets a New Industry
"WHAT about an Australian-made carpet, in which your own wool is used?" a salesman in a city store asked Mr. W. A. O'Neil, president of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Increased Returns Depend on Efficient Management of the Sheep Flock
TO maintain the wool Industry on a sound fooling with the capacity to complete successfully with the manufacturers of artificial fibres,…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Making Wool Better Known Among People of Other Lands
THE increased confidence latterly evident in values for wool has also been noticeable in cotton. These two raw materials are the world's…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Threat to Wool Chemist Sees:-- Coal - Water - Air Fibre
Production of "synthetic" as distinct from "artificial" fibres, which may supplant wool in certain uses, will…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Sheep Louse Too Plentiful Graziers Should Give It No Quarter Methods of Eradication
THE biting louse is a far too common skin parasite of sheep, but many sheep owners fall to recognise the enormous amount of harm it does. Like the sheep tick the louse spends the whole of its life upon the host, and does not leave it unless to transfer to another animal, which it can…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Central Selling For Production Areas Wool Marketing Idea Put Forward
IMMEDIATELY the London wool sales closed, Australian prices recovered and have since shown a hardening tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool and Cotton Activities of New Body New Uses Being Evolved
FURTHER news of the activities of the International Wool Secretariat in London comes from the Graziers' Association…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Straw Strength of Bencubbin Improved when Late Sown, Cowra Wheat Trials Prove
IN his reports on the results of the 1933 mid-season-sown wheat trial for the Cowra district, Mr. F. C. Morris, H.D.A., experimentalist, announces his conclusion that Bencubbin, when sown late, does not exhibit the same weakness of straw as when sown early…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flour Millers Blame Department For Failure of Silos to Handle Current Wheat Harvest
IN a statement early this week, Mr. A. L. Jelfs, secretary of the Flour Millers' Association, blamed the Department of Agriculture for the failure of the silo system to handle this season's harvest…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Women Must Use More Wool Opportunity to Assist in Aiding a National Industry
INDIFFERENCE of women towards wheat and wool was challenged by the Premier of Ontario (Canada), Mr. Mitchell Hepburn. Mr. Hepburn said that if women gave up the craze for slimness, and used more woollen clothing, consumption of both…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Theresian Holiday Home. Farm to Be Started
At the 1939 opening meeting of the Theresian Ladies' Auxiliary held at "Carmelita," it was announced that during December and January, 40 children from the…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Better Methods of Farming Gave North-west the Lead Bureau President's Conference Address
IMPROVED farming methods during the past ten or twelve years has turned the "Cinderella district of the North-west" into one of the…
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