Want Wheat Scrip Made Negotiable
A strong demand has come from South Australian wheatgrowers for wheat scrip issued by the Australian Wheat Board to be made negotiable. A request…
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Butter & Bacon "Luxuries" Declares British Dief Expert
DECLARING that both butter and bacon were unnecessary luxuries, Sir John Boyd Orr, a British diet expert, said he wouldn't waste the life…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Will Pay Contract Price for Requisitioned Butter
The British Ministry of Food has advised the Australian Dairy Produce Board that it will pay contract f.o.b. prices for all Australian butter…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Cattle Losses Not Due To Grasshopper Bait
The recent deaths of travelling cattle in the Moree district were attributable to eating variegated thistle and not to picking up grasshopper…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Exhibited in Unusual Charge Orange
For the first time in New South Wales, a man was charged at Orange Court yesterday with illegal use of animals. Seven ewes and six lambs, penned near the courtroom, were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Homebush Stock Sales Monday Sheep Market Weaker
The State Marketing Bureau reports: The supply of sheep and lambs at Homebush saleyards on Monday, totalled 26,409 head, or about 3,000 less than the number listed…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Thursday Grown Sheep Down 1/- a Head
The State Marketing Bureau reports:—Sheep and lambs available at the Homebush saleyards yesterday totalled 38,320 head, which were chiefly of fair quality only…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Wool Substitutes Problems in Japan
"WOOL substitutes now being used for feminine fashions in Japan not only lacked warmth, but would not stand up to washing," said Miss Sumiko…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pessimistic Crop Comment in U.S.; Big Drop in Argentine Production Statistician's International Wheat Review
WHILE the United States 1939 crop exceeded consumption requirements by a small margin the new Winter wheat crop has started off under much less favorable conditions, declares the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wants No Talk Of Wheat Restriction
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--"I hope this is the last we will hear of wheat production restrictions," said the Victorian Premier (Mr. Dunstan) today…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Rates Down 10/- to 20/A Head
The State Marketing Bureau reports:—A substantial number of cattle was again available at the Homebush saleyards, and the total of 2958 head included 291 bulls…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →More Empire Wool For United States
ACCORDING to Dr. Clunies Ross, Australian member of the International Wool Secretariat, the United States will take large quantities of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Purchase. Appraisements of January 16
Appraisements of clips on Tuesday of the Austialian wool clip purchase plan have been supplied by the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Prices. Requests for Advances on Scrip
A request will he made to the Federal Government that wheat scrip—issued to farmers under the system of advances on wheat—be made negotiable…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Prize cattle in the Riverina district (N.S.W.)
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Jersey Cattle News and Notes Nonda Jerseys in Demand
TWO promising young bulls from Mr. C. W. Mason's Nonda Jersey Stud at Inverell, changed hands recently…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Overcrowded Sheep Trucks. Station Manager Fined. MOR[?]E
Alan C. Cowles, station manager, was fined £1 by Mr. Thornton, P.M., at Moree Police Court, for having overloaded four trucks with sheep, causing unnecessary suffering to the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →South African Wool Sales. London, Jan. 17
At the South African wool sales during the week-ended January 13, the average price per lb for 64's was /29¼. There was keen general competition, the principal buyers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Help for the Finns. Committee to Control Fund. "Butter, Not Guns."
A strong executive to administer the Finnish relief fund was appointed yesterday at a meeting at the Australia Hotel. About 60 people were present…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dairy Farmer's Best Investment
A DAIRY farmer's best investment is in improved pasture grasses combined with an improved type of dairy cow, believes Mr. F. W. Snow, of the Dyraaba soldiers' settlement area, in the Kyogle district. Mr. Snow has received a little over £300 from Norco for cream…
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