Plain Sheep Cheaper; Cattle Supply Better
AT the Homebush stock sales today, rates for good to prime sheep and lambs showed little change, but medium to plain descriptions sold at lower levels…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farming & the land, 1943
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Wheat Trials
EXPERIMENTAL trials will be made with wheats at only two experiment farms, Temora and Cowra, by the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Figures
This season's appraisements of wool in Sydney, Newcastle, and Goulburn now total approximately 1,167,000 bales,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Anzac Sheep Differ in Main Types
NEW ZEALAND, with approximately 32,000,000 sheep, slaughters over 13,500,000 sheep and lambs annually, or a number…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wool Industry — Studying the Future
According to reports received from London, the wool trade there is planning to form a wool textile reconstruction committee to study postwar problems in association with the Board of Trade…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Queensland Weekly Letter Butter Rationed Last of Milk Products
(From Our Special Correspondent.) IF dairy production declines to the level when it will be impossible to meet overseas as well as the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →British Committee To Study Post-War Disposal of Wool
A RECONSTRUCTION committee to study post-war disposal of wool is being formed by all sections of the wool and textile industry in Britain…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Official Tests of N.S.W. Grain Latest Wheat Harvest Shows Lower Fair Average Quality
GENERALLY the fair average quality of the 1942-43 wheat crop is lower than that of the previous year, figures for protein content being 1.6 per cent, lower for bulk wheat and 1.3 per cent, for bagged wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Crop of New Parties
IT has become fashionable to form new political parties in Australia and a dozen at least have sprung into being during the past year…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Poultry Experiment Farm to Be Run at Seven Hills
IN future the government poultry farm at Seven Hills will be known as the poultry Experiment Farm. That announcement was made by the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Dairy Quotas
The Minister for Agriculture Mr. Dunn), on the recommendation of the N.S.W. DAiry produce Board, has determined the following quotas to operate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increase Impossible without More Workers New Subsidy Helpful, but Manpower is Still Big Farm Problem
LEADERS of the dairying industry have expressed themselves as being satisfied with the latest plan of the Federal Government to assist dairy farmers. In some quarters, however, it is felt that a price rise would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Tractor
IF the gear ratios of the tractor are not known and the information is required. It is an easy matter to work them out without dismantling the gearbox and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →War Committees Should Get More Power Farm Machinery is Essential to Step Up Food Output
GREATER power for District War Agricultural Committees was urged by Sir Earle Page, M.P., this week. He contended that the committees should have more executive power and that the areas covered by many of them should be reduced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ballina Club Members Inspect Wollongbar Farm
WOLLONGBAR Experiment Farm was recently visited by 80 members of the Ballina Pig Club. Members were shown the pig housing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Record Crop
Harvesting of what probably be a record crop of sultanas and currants has been completed with Land Army…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Escaped from Prison Farm
Norman Richard Yopp, 23, escaped from the Emu Plains prison farm yesterday. He was serving a sentence of 18 months for housebreaking…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Two Towns Fear Milk Famine Dairy Commission's Action
GOULBURN, Wednesday.— Unless drastic action is taken immediately to enable Goulburn and Queanbeyan to receive milk…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Escape From Prison Farm
Norman Richard Yopp, 23, escaped from the Emu Plains prison farm yesterday. All prisoners at the farm are on…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Pastoral Firms Defended
Pastoralisc companies, described by the Premier, Mr. McKell, as "monopolistic," and which he admitted were the target of the new Land Tax Bill,…
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