Wool Market
The opening Sydney wool sales of the second half of the season were somewhat disappointing, but competition improved during the week and the market is now on the level anticipated before the Christmas recess…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming & the land, 1939
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The Wheat Problem
The International Wheat Advisory Committee has convened a conference which will open in London to-day. It is expected that 22 countries will be…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Breeding Quality Wool
Mr. W. H. Mather writes:— Sir,—The majority of Australian merino wool is used for worsted suitings because of its durability. A manufacturer cannot make…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wellington Wool Sales
WELLINGTON. Monday.--Under exceptionally keen, but sometimes erratic competition, a clearance of about 90 per cent. was made at today's Wellington wool sale…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Firmer Market for Wheat
Although the volume of business was not extensive, wheat prices were a shade firmer yesterday. Sellers were inclined to hold off…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sheep Killed by Dogs. Temora
Packs of dogs from Temora have been raiding sheep farms close to the town at night. Dogs attacked a flock of sheep on the Temora Experiment Farm, killing 14 and mauling…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
The State Marketing Bureau (Department of Agriculture) advises as follows regarding local and overseas wheat values and sales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Season's Record Wool Price
Wool was sold at 24½d a pound--a new season's record--at the Sydney sales today. Some particularly attractive New…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Surplus of Wheat London
The international Institute of Agriculture at Rome declares that the world's wheat situation is critical, owing to heavy crops dislocating…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wheat Market. Sellers Scarce. Covering by Millers
The Sydney wheat market had a firmer tone yesterday. The demand was confined to millers who sought to cover sales of flour fo…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Sales. Competition Sustained. All Descriptions Firm
At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday 11,323 bales were catalogued. The clearance, including private sales of passed-in and fellmongered wools amounted to 10,815 bales, as…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Japan's Trade. Decline in Wool Imports. TOKYO, Jan. 8
For the 11 months January to November 1938 imports of wool into Japan were valued at 89,800,000 yen. Imports included: Manchukuo, 2,000,000 yen; China, 3,000,000 yen;…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →"Shoddy" As Threat to Wool. Commonwealth Inquiry. CANBERRA
The Assistant Minister for Commerce, Mr. Thompson, announced to-day that the Commonwealth Government was investigating the extent to which the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Conference on Wheat. London Meeting. United States' Move For Quotas. LONDON, Jan. 9
Inquiries made by the Australian Associated Press indicate that the conference of the International Wheat Advisory Committee, which opens in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Rice Farmers Suffer. Water Restrictions. Burrinjuck Supply. Griffith
The serious shortage of storage water at the Burrinjuck Dam was again emphasised at the week-end, when certain ricegrowers at Mirrool were…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →— on the Land — Training Jewish Migrants. Welfare Society's Scheme. Farm at Baulkham Hills
Chelsea Park, a 30-acre property in the Baulkham Hills district, has recently been purchased by Mutual Farms Pty., Ltd., a company formed by…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Fighting Farmer
George Tosh, the scintillating welterweight boxer who put Gilgandra on the pugilistic map some sixteen years ago, is now a resident of Bondi…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On Collective Farm
Collective farmer with his favorite thoroughbred. This…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Story of Poison in Drink Inquiry on Death of Taree Farmer Wife, Man, Present In Court Charged With Murder Both Sent for Trial Taree
"I poisoned Will. Joe Smith gave me the poison," set out a statement, alleged to have been made by Mrs. Matilda Anne Edwards, which was read at the inquest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →More Migrants for Farms
Some of the 24 young British migrants who arrived in Sydney today by the Jervis Bay to settle on farms in New South Wales under the Salvation Army migration scheme…
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