Let Stockowners Deal With Cattle Ticks
If stockowners would prefer to have all tick control measures done away witfy the Government would grant that request and leave them to deal…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farming & the land, 1940
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Britain Spoils Wool Market
MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The British Wool Committee's handling of the Australian clip was depriving Australian growers of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Country Stock Sales Forbes Sheep Sales
Edward Weaver & Co. (Forbes), and The Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co., auctioneers in conjunction, report that they yarded about 2,450 fat sheep and lambs at their…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Sheep were Well-represented at Queanbeyan
EXHIBITORS from all parts of the district, including Canberra, competed at the 46th annual show of the Queanbeyan P. and H…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Likelihood of Second Wheat Advance
THE likelihood of another advance being paid to wheatgrowers, in addition to the first advance of 2/6 a bushel that hits already been made, was referred to by the Prime Minister (Mr. Menzies) in answering a question during the Corio by-electior. campaign…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
All overseas quotes are for Wednesday, February 28, 1940, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Homebush Stock Sales Monday Sheep Values Firm
The State Marketing Bureau reports:—There was a comparatively supyly, totalling 19,891 head of sheep and lambs Available at the Homebush saleyards on…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Big Wool Display For Show
THE wool display in the Manufacturers' Hall at the Sydney Royal Show this year will be the most ambitious yet staged. The exhibit…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Whale Wool Latest Japanese Substitute
A JAPANESE report states that Dr. Yoshio Ishida, of the Japanese Physical and Chcinical Research Institute, has succeeded in obtaining…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Complaints About No. 1 Pool Wheat
A COMPLAINT that farmers had been hard hit by the commandeerin by the Government of two-year-old wheat on the outbreak of the war was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Fat Cattle Formed Outstanding Section at Taralga Exhibition
FAT cattle are usually an outstanding section of the Taralga A.P. and H. Association's annual Show and, despite an adverse season, the exhibits this year were excellent. adverse season, the exhibits this year were excellent…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Increasing Sheep Fertility. London. Feb. 28. (A.A.P.)
The Medical Research Council, in its annual report, says it is probable that stock-breeding, especially sheep-breeding, shortly will profit greatly as a result of the progress of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →25,000 Bales of Wool for Japan
The sale of 25,000 bales of Australian wool to Japan, announced at Canberra last week, is expected to be followed by similar sales…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bradford Wool Market Rationing London, February 29
Many Bradford firms have received their allocation for the next rationing period, but mostly they have not obtained the quantity anticipated…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New Rations for Wool in U.K.?
A London message reports that the Wool Control Committee is expected soon to announce new civilian wool rations, and the trade is preparing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Industry for the Home. New Guild Formed
A new industry for Australians, which also is designed to help the wool industry, is planned by the Spinners, Weavers, and Dyers' Guild which has just been formed in Sydney. The…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Profits on All Resales of Wool to Neutrals
There will be profit, on all sales of Australian wool to neutral countries, according to a Canberra report. Great Britain, as the purchaser of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Attacks British Wool Control "Bradford Working For Bradford" MELBOURNE
"British wool control is administered from Bradford, apparently in the interests of Bradford," to-day declared the chairman of the Australian. Wool Board, Sir Dalziel Kelly, in an outspoken…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Over £21,000,000 Paid in Advances on Wheat Pool Collections £2,286,000
ADVANCES to wheatgrowers have been made to date on 168,221,000 bushels, being a total expenditure of £21,729,000, including railage. Collections, including the flour tax proceeds, were £2,286,000, leaving an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Cheque May Be 35 per cent Greater NEARLY £60,000,000 EXPECTED
AUSTRALIA'S wool cheque this season will be at least 35 per cent, higher than that of last season. It is expected to total between £59,000,000 and £60 000, 000 compared with £42,500,000 last reason…
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