Making Prisoners Fit for Hard Work. Special Farm Course. BRISBANE
A novel system to fit long-term prisoners for work on their release from gaol is to be introduced in Brisbane. Numinbah prison farm, which the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Farming & the land, 1940
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Nearly £60,000,000 for Wool
OFFICIAL estimates of Australia's wool clip for the current season is 3,371,500 bales. That total, at the fixed…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →New Storage Sites to Save Wheat From Mice
The Australian Wheat Board has secured two large storage sites to save this year's New South Wales wheat crop from a possible mice plague. Each site will accommodate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Te Hero Incident Cloaked In Mystery Cattle Dog on Course
How the cattle dog got on Kensington racecourse on Wednesday to assist Te Hero at the start of the second division of the Flying Handicap remains a mystery. Those who know are silent, and officials say that they were…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Finns Retain Initiative "Like a Sheepdog Working the Sheep" Russian Attacks Repulsed [?]OVANFIMI
A BATTLE is raging at several points in the Salla sector, Finland's Arctic waistline. The Finns are maintaining harassing tactics to keep the Russians constantly moving, thus retaining the advantage…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Keep Soldiers' Farms Going Casino
A district committee has been formed to protect the interests of settlers who enlist. Zone representatives, with a keen…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →we could picture the coming of the The GIRLS of CLIFFDALE On The Farm
TOPSY BROWN was reeling lonely and a little sad. She was spending a holiday with her aunt and uncle on Greenlea Farm, a delightful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →You wight have to do a Man's Job ...but there's no need to lose your charm, says Zoe Farmar
War comes nearer with the departure of the second A.I.F., and some women, besides those already in the voluntary services, will find themselves doing…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Butter Report
The weekly butter report of Prescott Pty., Ltd., dated January 6, reads as follows:—New South wales: Rain is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Oatmeal Better Than Butter
A Macquarie Street doctor--a Scotsman--agreed yesterday that oatmeal is more nourishing than bacon and butter. "So is haggis," the doctor added…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stewart In Hint To Wheat Growers
THE Acting Minister for Supply, Sir Frederick Stewart, would neither confirm nor deny…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Anthrax Outbreak at Tocumwal. Cattle for Saleyards. TOCUMWAL
Of a mob of 300 cattle which arrived here a few days ago to be trucked to Newmarket saleyards, Melbourne, 12 have died of anthrax. These cattle were on a reserve at Morundah,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Growers' Chance To Improve Quality. a Wartime Plan
Given reasonably good weather conditions, 1940 should be one of definite progress in the pastoral industry. Woolgrowers particularly, with a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bradford Wool Tops. New Export Prices. LONDON, Jan. 6
The current issue prices are unchanged. The following are opearative from March 1:- [?] seventies, average, [?] per lb; sixty-fours average, [?] sixties super. /40½;…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On the Land. Polled Merino Rams Not As Good Woolled. Better Doers Than Horned Sheep
Polled merino studs are on the increase in New South Wales, the demand for hornless rams having exceeded the supply this season…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →U.S.A. Wool Eases, But Prices 30 p.c. Above August Level
Raw wool prices in the United States declined during November as the domestic situation was eased by moderate purchases of fine South African wools…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Crops Damaged
BRISBANE, Sunday.--A heavy hailstorm today seriously damaged crops at Amiens Soldiers' Settlement, Stanthorpe. This was the third severe hailstorm of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer's Viennese Fiancee Barred From Australia PERTH
The Department of the Interior will not admit to Australia a middle-aged Viennese woman doctor who wants to marry a West Australian farmer. Since before the war the far…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Editorial Margarine Before Butter
A number of British firms are reported to fear for the future of the Australian export butter trade, both during and after the war. They point out that the rationing of butter in Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Steady Wheat Trade
Wheat moved out steadily yesterday. Produce merchants were the main buyers but millers took small lots. Export prices are:--New season's Silo…
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