Reduced Wheat Fallow. Albury
It is reported from south-eastern Riverina that only about half the usual amount of fallowing has been done this season, and that the prospect for the next…
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Only 22½ Million Bus. of Export Wheat This Year Good Clearance of Old Crop
ADDING the unsold carryover of the 1939-40 season wheat, of 25,000,000 bushels, to the anticipated receivals of the 1940-41 season the Australian Wheat Board will only have a total of 87 million bushels to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Down 15/- to 30/- a Head
The State Marketing Bureau, reports:- Increased supplies of cattle were available at Homebush, aggregating 2,322 head, of which 255 was auctioned in the stores…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Wheat Fight Has Not Yet Ended
ALTHOUGH the first step in the stabilisation of the wheat industry has been taken by the Commonwealth there is still a big fight ahead of the wheatgrowers before the present scheme, which is…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Permits to Vaccinate Sheep; Department Speeds Up Issue
"CHANGES have been made recently which have very considerably facilitated the issue of permits to vaccinate sheep against…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Secret Process for Treating Wool Waste
A new process by which waste wool can be converted into wool with a quality resembling Australian lambs wool was revealed in a recent London…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brokers' Views Expansion in Wool Clip
WINCHCOMBE. CARSON LTD. report: In the 1939-40 season New South Wales produced, including the wool exported on sheepskins, 546,273,000lb. of wool, which at…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Pig Breeder Criticises Demand For Cheap Wheat
RECENT action of pig-raisers and other stock feeders in endeavoring to secure cheap wheat from the Australian Wheat Board…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Don't Sabotage the Wheat Scheme Farmer Critics are Playing Into the Hands of City Opponents; Growers' Co-operation Needed
ALTHOUGH perhaps unwittingly farmers are asisting in attempts to sabotage the Commonwealth wheat stabilisation scheme through voicing, unfairly, complaints about certain drawbacks or anomalies in the plan. Country opposition to various features of the plan is not organised, but reports from many parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →U.k. Wool Imports for 9 Months
Imports of wool into England for the nine months ended September 30 last amounted to £61,968,000, states Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →High Price Policy Is Justified, Says Wheat Board
"THE policy of the Australian Wheat Board in maintaining its prices at levels consistent with its estimation of market values, in face of some criticism…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hay-Growers Harshly Treated Under Wheat Scheme, Is Claim
A CLAIM that, under the wheat stabilisation plan, growers of hay will be harshly treated was made this week by Mr. E. M. Hamblin, a member of the executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, who is a large hay-grower at Ganmain…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Jersey Cattle Notes First Arrivals at Ohio Stud; Calves by Navua Bravo Royal
THE first of Navua Bravo Royal's progeny to arrive at the Ohio Jersey stud of Mr. J. A. Nivison, Walcha, are described as being of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Want State to Make up Wheat Price To 3/- a Bus. at Siding Proposal for U.C.P. CONFERENCE
A PROPOSAL that the State Government should make up the estimated return, under the Commonwealth wheat stabilisation plan, to 3/- a bushel at sidings on the first 3000 bushels of each grower's production, is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Conditions to Prepare Soil for Next Crop
THE rains have provided excellent conditions in most districts for the preparation of the soil for this year's crops and those farmers who…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Labor Shortage Likely; Effect of Big Munition Drive
WHILE at present there in no serious labor shortage in country districts of New South Wales owing to recruiting and the increase in the number employed in the munitions industry, it is believed that the position…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A Section for the Poultry Farmer Autumn Hatched Chickens Supplement Farm Income By an Expert
AFTER the long period of dry weather experienced last year; many poultry farmers failed to rear the full quota of chickens. Since weather conditions have now changed, thoughts should be given to rearing a batch of autumn chicks…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Store Fodder on Every Farm as Part of the War Effort
"PRIMARY producers owe it to themselves and to their country, especially now that Australia is engaged in an all-out war that brooks no delay, to conserve fodder wherever possible and in whatever form that will Produce the best results," said the secretary of the Royal Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maize Crop Outlook is Very Satisfactory
THE general maire crop position can be considered very satisfactory at this stage, reports the Department of Agriculture…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Breeding Farm Stock & VETERINARY Drench Regularly and Feed Well to Beat Worms
ALTHOUGH the drought has no doubt reduced the chance of sheep becoming worm infested to a certain extent, it has by no means solved the problem. Where sheep have been handfed in small areas, expecially if they have not been drenched for worms, the chance of picking up worms has, if anything, been increased…
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