Post-war Wool Use Depends on Finance
DISCUSSIONS have arison as to whether Continental people, deprived of wool during the war and relying more on clothing made of artificial fibre, will…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Farming & the land, 1942
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Protein Content of F.A.Q. Wheat is Lower
PROTEIN content of both bulk and bagged f.a.q. wheat form the 1941-42 crop is alightly lower than for the previous year, states the…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Pastoral Manpower Problem Civilians and Men in Fighting Forces Must Be Fed and Clothed
AT the outbreak of war the pastoral industry could not boast of superfluous manpower. The depression bad already forced reduction of employees. In September, 1939, there was a sufficiency of men to carry…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Constant Rate of Wool Growth Revealed in Aprican Tests
MANY sheep owners believe that wool grown faster after the sheep are shorn, but from experiments by Professor P. D. Rose, lecturer in sheep and wool…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Top Wool Prices Stamp Success on Narra-Allen Stud
FOR many seasons post the Narra-Allen Merino stud, Boorowa, owned by Messrs. H. C. Stevenson and Co., the principal of which is…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →U.S. Soldiers Wear Uniforms Made From Our Wool
IT could bo taken for granted that many of the United States troops now arriving in Australia were wearing uniforms made from…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Committee Chairman May Become Minister to U.S.A.
IT is understood that the Federal Cabinet has decided to offer the post of Australian Minister to the United States to Sir Owen Dixon, of the High…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →More Breeders Interested in Dual-Purpose Sheep Hardy Polwarth Has Great Degree of Resistance to Destructive Blowfly Pest
POPULARITY of the Polwdrth has increased considerably during the past few years, and there are now 130 registered studs in Australia. Owners of studs are finding that the demand for…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Corriedale—World's Best "All Rounder" Producing Wool and Mutton to Help in the Fight for Freedom
WHEN the originators of the Corriedale began their experiments in crossing pure-bred Merinos with pure-bred Lincolns in New Zealand more than 70 years ago, they were actuated by purely utilitarian motives—the production of a type of sheep that would suit their particular country. Possibly they aimed at developing a sheep to (ill their own needs and…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →New Wool Store Signalises Thirty-Five Years of Progress Schute Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd. Take Forward Step
WITH the recent opening of a new wool store in Harris Street, Pyrmont, Messrs. Schute. Bell Badgery Lumby Ltd., have celebrated 35 years of service to the woolgrowexs of this State. Erection of a wool store involves a great deal of thought and planning, but the trouble…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Must Concentrate on Production Problem Fixed Price for Wool, But Costs Continue to Rise Manpower Difficulty Alleviated
I HAVE been asked to give my views on the wool position and the sheep industry generally. This is no easy task in these troublous times when all one's thoughts and energy are turned towards one paramount object—the production of a maximum…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Classing for Utility as Help in Fly Control Making Best Use of Labor Handling Inferior Sheep Unsound Proposition When Times are Busy
CLASSING of a flock on lines of general commercial usefulness will remove automatically a very large proportion of the fly susceptible sheep. This will enable the labor available to be employed on the better class sheep in the flock…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →War Gives Breeds New Importance Their Wool is Needed to Make Uniforms for Allied Troops More Mutton Will Be Required
WHILE the sheep world of Australia is busily engaged discussing wool prices and wool demands, men who devote most of their activities to raising fat lambs are regarded as being little interested in that subject. For their part, the fat lamb raisers seldom trouble overmuch about wool, being more inclined to concentrate their efforts on carcase perfection…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Improve the Wool to Beat the Opposition Plan for Standard Types Saving Golden Fleece from Fate of Second Class Commodities
AMONGST the users throughout the world of our wool, the "name and fame of Goulburn is heard universally as the home of well bred wool, material which will spin, containing the milling and felting qualities so much desired by all…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Non-stop Shearing to Beat War Problems U.S. System Suggested Wool Man Claims that One Week in every Four Could Be Saved
WITH a labor shortage caused by the war, shearing in in Australia is faced with many problems. According to Mr. J. C. Findlay, an Australian wool man with considerable experience of shearing in other countries, the most practical way to handle…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Death of Noted Crop and Stock Expert
A WELL-KNOWN wheat and sheep expert Dr. G. P. Parnell Smith (74), first biologist of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, died in Sydney last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Acute Labor Problem for Farmers
PROBLEM of labor on farms was acute, said Mr. F. J. Cahill, M.L.A. Parlimentarians were being inundated with complaints regarding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Control of Bean Fly in Autumn Sown Crops
FOR successful production of late summer and autumn beans in most consul areas north of Sydney, said Mr. W. L. Mergan, entomologist, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →Farm Tractor
IT is thought by many tractor drivers that upper-cylinder lubrication is only advantageous in the case of a high-speed modern motor-car and they do not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Board Gives Just Return for All Eggs, says Farmer To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler."
Sir,—I notice in various papers that numbers of people are complaining about the returns they are receiving for eggs sent to the Egg Board in Sydney or at…
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