Wool Board Secretary At Show
MISS G. MACKINNON, secretary of the Australian Wool Board has arrived in Sydney from Melbourne in connection with the exhibit…
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Homebush Stocks Sales Monday Weaker Demand for Sheep
The State Marketing Bureau reportsL:—A total of 33,024 head of mostly only fair quality sheep and lambs was available at the Homebush salesyards on Monday. Grown sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Women pull Wool over their Heads
As the huge wool and Feltex clock at the end of the Temple of Beauty tolls out a new hour it brings on the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Plan to Expand British Wool Exports
The National Wool Textile Export Corporation in the United Kingdom has made an agreement with the International Wool Secretariat with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Market News and Reviews Wool Appraisements
PITT, SON & BADGERY LTD. report: The wool season is now practically over, but "off" season appraisements will deal with the autumn-shorn wools and the oddments which…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →American Wheat Price at New High Level
CHICAGO, Thursday (A.A.P.).--An advance of more than three cents a bushel yesterday carried wheat prices to the highest levels in ten months,…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Chance For Pigs To Aid Wheat Industry
THE opinion that there was a wonderful future in the pig industry for Australia was expressed by Mr. W. Giles at the last meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Improved Pasture Doubled His Butter Output in Five Years
MR. C. F. MACINDOE, Old Coast Road, Dorrigo, commenced intensive pasture improvement work in the 1935-36 season. Since then the butter production has increased consistently each year by amounts varying between 12 and 20 per cent., the 1939-40 returns reaching a figure almost exactly…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Exaggerated Wheat Claims Will Be Pruned; Chairman's Warning
A WARNING that inflated claims for wheat acreage under the stabilisation scheme would be pruned severely when individual acreages were being allotted, was issued this week by the chairman of the Wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Land Stocksales. Wethers Cheaper; Lambs Firm. Cattle Lower
Wethers were cheaper at the Flemington sales yesterday.Ewes were scarce, and were firm all day, as were good-quality lambs…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Daily Telegraph Picture Stories Gunn's Gully- Wool Gathering
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Continued on Trove, page 9 →Export Market For Wheat Is Still Vital; Says Pool Man
REFERRING to the dependence of the Australian wheat industry on exports, Mr. H. E. Braine, secretary of the Wheat Pool of Western Australia, said in a recent address that he was convinced, in the long run, the industry could not be stabilised without an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Increased Wheat Acreage Was Sought By Growers In All States
ON his return to Perth after attending a meeting of the Wheat Stabilisation Board, the chairman of the Agricultural Bank Commission…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Chicago Wheat Advances. Highest Rates in Ten Months. CHICAGO, April 2
An advance of more than 3 cents per bushel to-day carried wheat prices to the highest levels for 10 months and eliminated all the loss attributed profit-taking…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →98 p.c. of W.A. Wheat Is Handled In Bulk
IN 10 years, the co-operative bulk handling company in Western Australia has increased its share of the marketed crop in that State from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crested Wheat Grass Tested Here For 20 Years; Results Not Encouraging
FOR 20 years various strains of crested wheat grass have been tested throughout New South Wales, but in no instance has the grass shown satisfactory results. [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Make Your Farm Vegetable Garden Pay Big Dividends HOW U.S. Farmers Get Results
IN a great many instances the farm vegetable and fruit garden has gone out of fashion—with adverse economic consequences for the farmer and his family. Even when an attempt is made to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Produce Quotas
Dairy produce quotas for local trade in New South Wales during April have been fixed: 53 per cent. of butter and 56 per cent. of cheese out of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Yielding Maize Crops In Hunter Valley
Maize crops on the Lower Hunter and Central Coast are finishing well, says the local agricultural Instructor, Mr. G. T. Dawson…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Silage Saved Inland Dairy Herd
LAST year a Cowra district armer made good use of silage put down in pits the previous year, and by feeding out this silage to cattle, sheep, and pigs, saved the situation in one of the driest years ever experienced…
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