Stud Sheep Fair
Monday, May 31, is the opening day of the annual stud sheep fair in Sydney, The sales, which will include drafts…
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Beef Cattle World and Meat Markets
A recent issue of the "Shorthorn Journal" gave details of the sales of imported Shorthorns at Polemic in the Argentine. The sale, usually held…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney
All overseas quotes are for Tuesday, May 4, 1943, and are to the nearest one-eight of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Control of Wool May Be Extended
ALTHOUGH the wool appraisement schemes in the Commonwealth, New Zealand, and South Africa are working smoothly and growers are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Drop in Wheat Crop Expected Sowings Half Pre-war Acreage in Several N.S.W. Areas, Instructors Report
WHEAT sowings this season will be 50 per cent, less than in pre-war years in some districts, and, as much will be grown on hastily prepared land, the expected yield will be still further reduced, agricultural instructors said to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australian Wool Valued at £71,000,000
Australia's wool revenue for the current season, despite a decrease in the clip, is estimated at the record figure of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Strange Variation In City Stores' Skein-Wool Prices
Prices of wool yarn in some city stores provide a curious illustration in wartime finance. IN one store today, two-ply wool was marked at prices ranging from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Moves Planned Mechanisation of Dairy Farms To Increase Output Evisaged by N.S.W. Government
TWO important moves to improve the dairying industry are being contemplated by the N.S.W. and Federal Governments. It was said during the week that a scheme was about to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Yesterday's Finance and Produce Markets Aust. Cattle Herds Must Be Increased
If exports are to be maintained and if provision is to be made for larger population, Australia will need larger supplies of cattle. Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Milling Results Were Good English Chemist Praises Australian Wheat Samples
HIGH praise for Australian wheats, sent to him in 1941, has been given by Dr. D. W. Kent Jones, eminent English cereal chemist, in a report to the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture. The samples included Pusa 4, Cailloux, Gular, Eureka, Carrabin and Flora. Of the f.a.q., Dr. Kent Jones said it…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Clip Has Great Wartime Importance Britain World's U.S.A. on Top as Consumer: Pastoral Year Reviewed
BRITAIN is the world's biggest wool buyer and her purchase of the Australian, New Zealand, South African and United Kingdom clips now total approximately 6,500,000 bales a year. Portion of the wool is resold, but primarily the British Government finds the money to pay for it…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →British Farmers Turn to Acorns For Feeding Fowls
FEEDING b a problem for poultry formers in Britain these days and they attempt to find a notation by using a groat variety of material…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Special Coupon Issue Is Sought for Dairymen
That dairy farmers should receive special consideration in the issue of clothing ration coupons is the contention of Singleton Chamber of Commerce…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New England Bean Crops of Good Quality
SOYA been crops in New England have not yet been threshed, although a bit percentage has been harvested, Mr. J. B. Nooson, senior…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Jewish Settlers To the Editor, "Farmer and Settler,"
Sir,—It is a thankless task to criticise, or even closed analyse, the statement of a man who is working on behalf of it [?]socuted people, but the Jows have such…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Some Farmers to Get Added Ration Of Superphosphate
AN announcement that arrangements for supplementary ration of super-phosphate for irrigationists and dairy framer who purchased supplies from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Machinery as Solution of Farm Labor Problem
LABOR is still one of the main problems which will have to be solved if production by the dairying industry is to be increased, or even maintained at its present level. Work can be saved and production…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Board
The Australian Dairy Produce Board's triennial elections resulted in Mr. G. C, Howey being elected Victorian producers'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Call for Women to Help with Urgent Farm Jobs
THERE is much evidence to support the view that the Axis powers hope to achieve victory on the food front, and to date they are making a fair job of it, observes the "Agricultural Gazette" in an appeal to women to undertake farm work…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Farmer Released
The Governor (Lord Wakehurst) has ordered the release of W. J. Alien, secretary of Ulmarra branch of the Primary Producers' Union…
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