Firm Cattle Market
The State Marketing Burean reports: Fairly heavy supplies of cattle wore again on offer at Homebush, and the total of 3,281 head included 382 auctioned in the store section…
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Wheat Payments
"B.W.": When is the Government paying the balance owing on last season's wheat? Answer: Although the whole of the wheat…
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With export and local demand almost nonexistent business again lapsed into inactivity on the Sydney wheat market yesterday. The only turnover reported by the board comprised…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Artificial Wool
In the opinion of Mr. M. R. Freney, wool research chemist at the McMaster Laboratory, Sydney, only the limitations of present-day chemistry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Rapid Wheat Seeding On South Australian Farm
Sowing 22 acres per hour with four Horwood-Bagshaw combines on the property of palm Bros., Pillana, S.A. The resultant crop averaged 12 bags…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Ayrshire Cattle Stud News
COWAN VILLE LUCY 2nd, born in the Ayrshire herd of Mr. George Cowan, Cowan Ville, Greenridge, during November, has for sire the South…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Jersey Cattle News and JNotes
MESSRS. JAMES MALONEY & SONS, of the Heathvale Jersey Stud, Broadwater, report the sale of a good line of eight heifers and a bull…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Prize sheep (N.S.W.)
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Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pet Sheep In Surry Hills
Jimmy Taylor, aged 6, of Surry Hills, seems to be taking a driving lesson from his pet sheep, Walla, as they ride together down a busy thoroughfare. Walla lives in a livery stable at Surry Hills, and plays with all the local children…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
All overseas quotes are for Wednesday, January 31, 1940, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Country Stock Sales Forbes Special Sheep Sale
Edward Weaver & Co. (Forbes), and the Farmers & Graziers Co-op, Co. Ltd. (Sydney), auctioneers in conjunction, report that the yarded about 1,500 fat sheep and lambs…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Bank Chief on Wool Prices
The hope that the British Wool Control Board would not seek unduly high prices was expressed by Sir John Davidson, chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Merchants and War-Time Marketing
SPEAKING at the fixing of the New South Wales f.a.q. standard for wheat late last week, Mr. M. J. Hurley, chairman of the grain trade section of the Chamber of Commerce, said those engaged in the wheat trade had got behind the Australian Wheat Board and would do…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Handling Charges For Wheat in Pool
AT a recent meeting of the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Association the president, Mr. P. H. Cullen, said he did not think the growers would get out…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →S. Africa May Buy Our Wheat
South Africa may buy 500,000 bags (1,500,000 bushels) of this season's Australian wheat. The Union Government has granted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No Butter in Gift Parcels for U.K.
In future butter may not be included in gift parcels of primary products sent by Australians to friends and relatives in the United Kingdom…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Sheep Stud Notes Popularity of Border Leicester Rams
THE popularity of the Border Leicester sire has increased enormously the last few years, with the result that the supply of rams of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Protest on Inadequate Rail Wool Covering
A motion of protest against the inadequate covering by the Railway Department of wool sent by rail to Sydney will be submitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Purchase. Appraisements of January 30
Appraisements of clips on Tuesday, January 30, in connection with the purchase of the Australian wool clip by the British Government, have been…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Forecast of 3/4 Net For Wheat
WHILE the Australian Wheat Board was meeting in Melbourne at the end of last week the Minister for Commerce…
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