Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney
All overseas quotes are for Wednesday, April 7, 1943, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…
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African Wool Demand By Britain
Increased use of South African wool is being made by the British mills, compared with the proportion consumed in times of peace…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Price of Wheat Growers Want More
A request by the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation for the payment of not less than 5/2 a bushel net at all sidings for…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Board Control of Cornsacks Discussed
A MEETING between the Australian Wheat Board and the Commonwealth Jute Committee wag held last week to consider…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Purchase Price An Increase Sought
News received from Canberra states that the Prime Minister, Mr. Curtin, said on Wednesday that the Government had no…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Want Wheat Price Promise Before Election Pact
NO agreement should be entered into by the Country Party with the U.A.P. until something, definite as regards…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fed. Govt. to Review Wheat Price Growers Appeal To Curtin; 5/2 For Next Crop Urged May Become Political Issue
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Demands by the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation for payment of 5/2 bushel for all wheat grown on licensed areas will receive the consideration of the Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →18d. for Wool Wanted by Wheatgrowers' Federation
LAST week's conference of the Australian Wheat, growers' Federation decided to seek 18d, a lb. for Australian wool…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Less Butter Produced Serious Winter Position By a Staff Correspondent
Production of butter is falling much more rapidly on the North Coast, from which the bulk of the New South Wales supplies…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"The Land" campaign in support of a wide-appreciation of the value of trees in modern farming programme, has won support support from a wide circle of farmers and departmental officials. We feel that this campaign should be continued. We believe that by discussion of this vital problem in the columns of "The Land" much valuable knowledge can be imparted, even to the farmer who already has adopted a policy of tree conservation on his property. Below we publish another article by "The Land" special correspondent in the series. "Trees and the Farmer." In the article shelter belts for farms are discussed and some valuable advice given on their purpose and methods of establishment. Farm Shelter Belts Have Beneficial Effects on Crops and Stock
THE time is coming when we shall not be allowed to make many more mistakes in the destruction of forests and the over-elimination of pastures…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Will Not Ask U.K. for Higher Wool Price
THE Prime Minister (Mr. Curtin) has refused a request of the Australian Wheatgrowers' Federation for the Federal Government to approach…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →News Editorial Mr. Scully's "Selection—election" Idea for the Wheat Board
MR. SCULLY'S quiet substitution of a selection instead of an election by wheatgrowers of their representatives on the Australian Wheat Board is a rare piece of sardonic humor. Growers, by some means yet to be disclosed, are to select nominees…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Election of Growers to Wheat Board; Scully's Two Voices What New Regulations Reveal
THE Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr. Scully) has apparently changed his mind about allowing wheat growers to elect their own representatives on the Australian Wheat Board…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Issue of Wheat Licences for 1943-44; Position in N. S. W. Gullen on Payment Delay
THE issuing of wheat licences in New South Wales for the 1943-44 season will probably commence this week. A statement to this effect was made…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New P.P.U. Secretary A Practical Dairyman
MR. HEDLEY C. CLARK, recently appointed general secretary to the Primary Producers' Union, is a native of the Clarence,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Vital to Arrest Drift in the Dairy Industry
"IT is most essential during the war that we should have full capacity dairy production maintained. To do that both the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Debt Structure of Dairy Industry; Scully's Comment
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The importance of the debt structure which has to be borne by the dairying industry throughout Australia is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hoppers and Other Insects Damage Crops
[?] are still present In the Parkes and contiguous [?] but have thinned out, says [?] Powell, agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On and Off the Farm Others See Us!
The following letter from an American airman in Australia to his father in Boston has been printed in the "Boston Herald":…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Recognition Suggested For War Work of Farm Women and Children
PUBLICATION of contributions telling what the women and children on the farms did to help bring in the last harvest is now concluded. The editor desires to thank all those who sent in contributions…
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