Harvest Estimate Is Low Wheat Figures are Well Down on Ten Year Average
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 7
LATEST figures released by the Commonwealth Statistician estimate the 1940-41 Australian wheat crop at approximately 83.9 million bushels. This figure is approximately 60 per cent, below last season's 210.3 million bushel crop and it compares…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Plans Made for Sydney Sheep Show Military Authorities Made Showground Available Breed Societies to Appoint Judges: No Split Fleeces
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 3
ANNUAL Sydney Sheep Show and Ram Sales will be held this year and arrangements to use the R.A.S. Showground are being made. That decision was made by the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Around the Beef Cattle Studs Empire Exhibit Will Portray Full History of Transport Picturesque Country Large Quantities of Hay Being Made in Mudgee District
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 9
THE British Empire Exhibit, at the Royal Empire Show, loaned by the United Kingdom Government as Great Britain's contribution to the show. THE final week of my tour of the beef cattle studs brought me in contact with some of the most picturesque country traversed during the trip. The route ran from Merriwa to Coolah, then down the Coolah Valley over to Mudgee, back to Wellington,…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The Man on the Land. Reports and Hints. Remarkable Maize Crop
The Catholic Press · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 18
There has been a good deal of controversy in the illawarra of late as to whether it is possible, under normal field conditions, to produce maize for green…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Nepean Show Meritorious Exhibition Farm Produce Outstanding Rain Affects Attendance
Nepean Times · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 1
The 49th annual Show of the Nepean A.H. & I. Society, held on Friday and Saturday last, was a very creditable exhibition, excelling in quantity and quality that of last year, in most sections. Seasonable conditions were favourable to a good farm display, and there was a fair response from producers in the entering of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmer Activities in the Central West
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 8
ENCOURAGING reports of Junior Farmer activities come from Mr, R. S. Griove, central west supervisor. Max Stapleton, Gregra, club secretary, is…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tractors on the Farm
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 9
IN course of time the tractor engine and its component parts lose their high degree of efficiency. This comes about very slowly indeed, so it is not…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Junior Farmer Flocks
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 3
A CORRIEDALE stud, founded with 20 owes from their father's Rook, has been established by the White brothers, Murrumburrah junior…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Yields in Riverina Wheatgrower Found Dairying Was Profitable when His Cows Got Lucerne Main Green Feed
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 4
MR. J. L. O'DONOGHUE, Ellerslie, Yerong Creek, is showing what can be done with dairying in wheat district. Average annual production of the Ellerslie herd approximates 350-lb. of butter-fat per cow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Trials Show Good Farming at Lyndfield
The Farmer and Settler · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 7
GOOD farming methods and high soil fertility are evidenced by the results of the wheat and out trials conducted at Mr. O. S. Baker's Lyndfield,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Drought on Far South Coast. Production Shrinks. Maize Crops "Burnt" Off
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 4
Something approaching drought is again affecting a considerable portion of the far South Coast, as a result of which there is little…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land. Grafton's Tick Danger. Quarantined Farms. Warning by Chief Veterinarian
The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 13 March 1941 · page 4
There is grave danger that tick fever will become established in the Grafton and Maclean dairying country. Two farms in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers' Show Cattle
The Land · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 6
The advisory committee of the Jamberoo Junior Farmers' Club is considering the introduction of some system of marking junior farmers'…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Hereford Cattle News
The Land · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 11
MR. F. H. V. CURTIS, of Abbey Green Hereford Stud, Llangothlin, reports having disposed of 25 yearling bulls at satisfactory prices. Eighteen…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Small Cattle Yarding
The Land · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 21
The Stale Marketing Bureau reports: On Monday, consignments of cattle to Homebush were much lighter, aggregating only 991 head, of which 129 were auctioned in…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Less Canadian Wheat
The Land · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 4
An increased production of malze, flax, and barley, with a corresponding reduction of wheat crops, has been recommended by the Canadian…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairymen To Seek Wheat For Stock Feed at Economic Price
The Land · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 5
TO consider the question of securing supplies of wheat for stock feed the Central Executive Council of the Primary Producers' Union has…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat growers' Relief Scheme
The Land · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 15
"C.V.J."—Although nothing definite has yet been announced concerning the Wheatgrowers' Relief Scheme, it is probable that within the next week application forms for…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Great Exhibition of Cattle at Inverell
The Land · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 13
Stud beef cattle made a good display at Inverell Show. In the foreground is the champion Hereford bull, "Windsor David," exhibited by W. Mcllrath, Windsor Stud, Myall Creek, Delungra. Outstanding A.I.S. cows, winners in their classes, which were afterwards…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat Prices React in Chicago
The Daily Telegraph · Friday 14 March 1941 · page 12
NEW YORK, Thursday (A.A.P.).-- Profit-taking paused a decline of upwards of one cent a bushel in the Chicago wheat futures yesterday, sellers…
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