Attempt to Fire Wool Store
LAUNCESTON, Monday.-- An attempt to set alight to a store on inspection Head Wharf, containing 3000 bales, of wool listed for England,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farming & the land, 1940
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Wartime Wool Stocks. United States Consumption
A downward variation has recently been experienced in wool prices in the United States. The New York futures top marke for May delivery has since early January…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Farmers' Clubs. a Year's Progress. Great Practical Value
No educational movement of recent years has made greater progress throughout New South Wales, than that of the junior farmers' clubs…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local Butter Quality
During the week ended 26th, 91.1 per cent, of the boxes of butter examined by the State butter grading staff was found true to brand description as being of choicest grade…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat Market
Business was again almost at a standstill in the Sydney wheat market yesterday. The only turnover reported by the Australian Wheat Board comprised the fair sales which…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Higher Butter Output. Lismore
The output ot butter from the factories of Norco Co-operative. Ltd., during December totalled 1,715 tons, which was 351 tons more than the output of December, 1938 Payments…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Thursday's Wool Appraisements
Appraisements of clips on Thursday, January 25, in connection with the purchase of the Australian wool clip by the British Government, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Stuffed Ears With Wool
RON SAGGERS fielded after lunch at the Cricket Ground yesterday with both ears plugged…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
All overseas quotes are for Monday, January 29, 1040, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →American Wool Consumption Avoiding Heavy Stocks
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— A downward variation has recently been experienced in wool…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bradford Wool Tops. London, Jan. 29
More business is on offer at Bradford in tops and yarns for the civilian trade than can be placed. No crossbreds, tops, or yarns are available for export, because of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Vitaminised Margarine. Equality With Butter Claimed. LONDON, Jan. 30. (A.A.P.)
All margarine will be vitaminised from February 5 by the introduction of vitamins A and D, thus giving it a vitamin content equal to that of butter, said the Parliamentary…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Wool Control Prices. Bank Chairman's View. LONDON, Jan. 29
Sir John Davidson, chairman of the Union Bank of Australia, Ltd., said, at the annual meeting of the shareholders to-day, that he hoped the British Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Dairy Produce Quotas
The Minister for Agriculture, on the recommendation of the New South Wales Dairy Products Board, has determined the following quotas, to operate during the month of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →— on the Land — Potato Crop Outlook. Average Area Planted Rain Badly Needed
More than usual interest is being taken in the New South Wales potato crop this year, because of the difficulties associated with last year's shortage, the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Subsidiary Lines for Farmers. Bathurst
The growing of subsidiary lines on farms to help solve present marketing problems and aid in national economy in wartime was advocated at a field day at the Bathurst…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farmyard Warfare 1
A British big gun hidden unostentatiously in a French farmyard. Shells are covered with straw as the gun…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Many Farms Ruined by Drainage
Labor members will press for the, appointment of a Parliamentary Select Committee to inquire into the drainage system of the Murrumbid…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Feminists' Success As Farmers
Potatoes--hundreds of them--have been grown by a group of Sydney women to raise money for the War Services Fund…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Union To Defend Evicted Farmers
PARKES, Tuesday.--Executive members of the Wheatgrowers' Union severely criticised the alleged action of the Rural Bank in calling up loans to farmers…
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