Hurricane at Suva. Cane Crops Damaged
Suva was struck by a hurricane on Thursday afternoon, according to Weather Bureau reports issued yesterday. Coming from the west, the wind…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Farming & the land, 1941
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Women Unfitted for Heavy Farm Work. London, Feb. 21. (A.A.P.)
The Minister for Labour and National Service, Mr. Ernest Bevin, has yielded to the farmers' representations that women are unfitted for ploughing and driving tractors. As…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →On the Land. the Junior Farmer
This lad, Owen Love, of Gerringong, is one of 2,450 members of the Junior Farmers' Club movement who have chosen calfrearing as their particular project. The calf is an Ayrshire…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Difficult Dairying Position. Problem of Storage. MURWILLUMBAH
The future of the dairying industry was fraught with many difficult problems, declared the general secretary of the Primary Producers' Union, Mr. J. L…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney Says Curlewis Branch, N.S.W. Farmers and Settlers
WE ask our industrial comrades to drink friendship and Australian fellowship with the farmers of Curlewis, N.S.W. They had at a C.P. conference in Sydney a blood-and-thunder delegate, Mr. Whiff-Of-Grapesliot Manning, who…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Women Fail on Land, Say British Farmers London, Friday (A.A.P.)
Women are unfitted for ploughing and for driving tractors, British farmers contend. Yielding to their representations, the Minister for Labor (Mr. Ernest Bevin) will conscript fewer than 10,000 women for…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Mustering The Sheep
FATHER and I rose from our beds early one morning as we had to muster the sheep that had to be shorn…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Needy Spaniards Get U.k. Wheat
MADRID, Saturday. -- Two steamers bound for Britain with wheat and other cargo have been diverted to Santander (northern Spain) to relieve…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Babes Out of the Wood Cattle Dog Guards Lost Girls
BELOW is a special picture of the two little girls who were lost overnight at Katoomba…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Farmer's Classic Bid London (by Air Mail).—B.U.P. Special
MR. A. E. ALLNUTT, who is a wealthy farmer and builder, has infused some optimism in the racing world by investing freely in bloodstock, and he will make a strong bid for next year's classics—the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Porter's 10-Miler Rogers, Walsh Come Cropper
THE presence of Billy Guyatt, Five-mile Australian Champion in last night's Ten-mile Australian title race at the Sports…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Butter Ration Increase
LONDON, Sunday (A.A.P.).--The butter ration in Britain will be increased from two to four ounces a week for each person from March 10 next…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Active Wheat Trade
Fairly active business developed to-day in the local wheat market, a large number of bookings being made in wheat for export flour Trade in the produce section was…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cattle Dog Has His Day
Bluey, the cattle dog who stood guard over Phyllis Bell, 5, and Gwen Scott, 4, when the two little girls were lost, 900 feet down Federal Pass,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →More Butter for Britons. London, Feb. 23. (A.A.P.)
The butter ration in Britain will be increased from two to four ounces per head a week from March 10 as a result of the seasonal increase and the arrival of shipments from the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Season's Wheat. 62,000,000 Bushels Delivered. MELBOURNE
Deliveries of wheat to the Australian Wheat Board from the beginning of the season to February 15 had aggregated 62,185,000 bushels, the chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stock Sales. Sheep Weaker; Lambs Firm. Cattle Market Unchanged
Wethers and ewes were not quite up to the previous sale day's rates at Flemington yesterday, but were without quotable change…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Market
There were fair bookings yesterday for wheat for export flour, while the local market was steady. Demand by produce merchants was very…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →— on the Land — Guernsey Dairy Cattle. Now Under German Control. None Evacuated
It was stated at the time of Germany's occupation of the Channel Islands that many of the best Guernsey herds were transferred to…
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