Apple, Pear Crop New Acquisition Scheme
With the prospect of a very heavy crop of high quality fruit, and the complete cutting off of the overseas market, the Apple and Pear…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1941
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Farmers Who Enlist. Looking After Their Properties. Voluntary Labour
"As a result of the setting up of the Soldiers' Farms Protection Committee it is hoped that the dependants and properties of those…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A Suburban Dairy Herd
Dairy herds are gradually disappearing from Sydney's suburbs, but this one, belonging to a hospital on the North Shore line, is likely to remain as it is not a commercial dairy in the ordinary sense of the term and the cows (Jerseys) are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stock Die Poisonous Weeds Kill Sheep and Cattle Prussic Acid
EIGHTY sheep in mob of 400 died recently in Narrabri district after eating yellow daisy and blue couch grass in…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Cattle Recover
CATTLE are recovering well from a very severe test in the drought and are putting on condition fairly quickly, states Mr. A. L. Astbury, senior dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Prices Strong Demand for Dairy Cattle
REPORTS of two sales on the South Coast indicate the exceptionally strong demand for dairy cattle, to which reference was made in last issue of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →St. Marys Cattle Sale
The Farmers and Graziers' Co., has 250 head of choice dairy and store cattle listed for the sale at St. Marys to-morrow, 31st inst. Included in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep and the "Blitz."
IT'S not all sunshine in England these days when sheep wander and the shepherd has to muster the flock with Nazi bombers overhead…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat Marketing Board
CHAIRMAN of the Australian Wheat Board, Sir Olive McPherson, has bee appointed chairman of the Wheat Stabilisation Board…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Poultry Farmers to Pay Higher Price for Bagged Wheat
RESENTMENT that recent increase in wheat prices would be borne by the poultry industry and not by millers was expressed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Licence Date Extended
WHEATGROWERS in rain affected districts have until February 8, 1941, to lodge applications for registration of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Homes Swept Away Sheep Country Flooded
Flood waters, miles wide, are sweeping some parts of the north-west, carrying away…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
All overseas quotes are for Tuesday, January 28, 1941, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. London Values:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Record Wool Consumption In America
"Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— In October the United States mills consumed 82,450,000 lb. of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →No. 1 PLACE Butter Has Priority in Shipping
DESPITE the enormous strain on available British shipping, Australia had been well served. Britain had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beef, Sheep and Pig , Producers Affected' by Export Restrictions
BEEF, mutton and lamb and pig industries are all concerned in proposed limitations of meat exports, made necessary…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Plants That Poison. Deadly to Sheep. Investigations in Queensland
Heart-leaf poison bush and the narrow-leaved boobyalla have both been proved to be poisonous to sheep, thus confirming the opinion…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Plants That Poison Stock Myoporum and Heart Leaf Kill Sheep
RESEARCH work by the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Stock, financially assisted by the Australian Wool Board, has shown that a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Record Quantities of Wool Used in United States
IN October United States mills consumed [?]-lb of apparel wool, largest quantity over consumed in the States in a month. It is the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →U.S. WOOL South American Position has Changed
ACCORDING to the current report of W[?]combe. Carson, Ltd., United States has imported very large quantities of South American wool. The selling…
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