Plans For Sydney Sheep Show & Sales
GOOD progress is being made by the New South Wales Sheep-breeders' Association in the work of organising its Annual Sheep…
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Overseas and Sydney Wheat Quotations
All overseas quotes are for Tuesday, February 5, 1941, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are expressed in English currency. London Values:…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Homebush Stock Sales Monday Sheep Market Firm
The State Marketing Bureau reports: At the Homebush Saleyards on Monday a total of 18,700 head of generally only fair quality sheep and lambs were offered for sale…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Seasonal Effects on Wool Production
EXPERIMENTS sponsored by the Australian Wool Board have been conducted at Mureak Agricultural College (W.A.), to determine…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Secrecy Surrounding Wool Scheme; Grower's Criticism
DURING a discussion on wool marketing at the meeting of the F.S.A. Executive last week a suggestion was made that there was still too much secrecy surrounding the operation of the wool appraisement…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No General Extension of Wheat Claims Date
THE chairman of the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Board emphasised this week that the closing date for lodgment of application…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Entries for Wheat Classes at Show
DESPITE one or the worst seasons on record, entries in the wheat section of the Royal Empire Show total 191, or eight more than…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cost of Marketing Wool; Commission Rebate Welcomed
REDUCTION in the wool selling commission by the Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy., and another wool selling company, provided further evidence in support of the claim by the Farmers and Setters' Association that costs of marketing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Brokers' Views Wool and Cotton; New Artificial Fibre
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—About one month's further wool appraisements will complete the offering of the main portion of the New South Wales clip. In Queensland,…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →C.P. Conference Wants 10 Year Plan for WHeat
UNLESS the Federal and State Governments extend the operations of the wheat stabilisation scheme for at least 10 years, there is a danger that the plan will be dropped after the war and growers again would have to fight for their rights…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hereford Notes Cattle Relish Wonderful Conditions After Drought; Many Good Sales
MESSRS. E. C. BODY & SONS PTY. LTD., of the Ulupna Hereford Stud at Graman, N.S.W., has sold the bull Ulupna Gilbert (4069), to the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Should Plan Now For Marketing Wool After War; Cole's Advice
REPORTING to the executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, Mr. B. Cole, the small growers' representative on the Central Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Acreage Cut Not Expected Formers' Position Under Licensing Plan Explained
IT is understood that there is no intention, under the wheat stabilisation scheme, to restrict the operations of wheatgrowers on registered wheat farms during the coming season…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Inquiry Department Farm Wokers's Wages
"P.I.T.": Unless the worker is a members of the Australian Workers' Union and this employer is a respondent to the Federal Pastoral Award, he would not come under…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Dairy Industry's Future
DISCUSSING the future of the dairy industry, the president of the Tweed district branch of the P.P.U. (Mr. Pratt) stated that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Some Farmers Can't Take Advantage of Cheap Loan Money For Drought Aid
AT the meeting of the Executive of the Farmers and Settlers' Association last week attention was directed to the fact that although cheap loan money was available for draught relief purposes many farmers were unable to take advantage of this cheap money because they were dealing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmer's Working Model
[?]-year-old Chris Cullex, Foxground, via Gerringong, with…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Heavy Weed Growth on The Fallows Problem For Farmers
HEAVY weed growth on the fallows is constituting a problem for wheatgrowers, according to the monthly reports of field officers of the Department of Agriculture. With an abundance of feed and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers' Tax Concessions Have Not Been Withdrawn
THE general secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association (Mr. Cambridge, M.L.C.), in reply to inquiries through Sir Earle Page,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A Section for the Poultry Farmer On The Show Bench; Final Preparations For Exhibits By an Expert
FOLLOWING a recent article on "Selection and Preparation of Suitable Birds for Shows," we come to the final or finishing touches to specimens before benching exhibits at poultry and agricultural Shows…
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