Thursday Sheep Rates Drop 1/- TO 1/6 a Head
The State Marketing Bureau reports:—Sheep and lambs on offer yesterday comprised 40,862 bead of generally only fair quality, Wethers and ewes penned totalled…
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G. T. Reid Memorial Cup For AberdeenAngus Show Cattle
A SILVER cup, presented by Kahlua Pastoral Co., in memory of the late Capt. George T. Reid, is to be competed for annually in the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Wool Stocks Int America Costs After Leaving Australia
CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for Commerce, Mr. Scully, said to-day that stocks of Australian wool were built up…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Trees and the Farmer Rotation Crops of Fodder Trees For Supply of Feed, Fuel and Shelter by a Special Correspondent
More and more evidence is accumulating that an increasing number of men on the land are growing anxious regarding tree problems, and that they are preserving, protecting and planting trees. This group of men must eventually be regarded as forerunners in individual forestry developments. Their work is of tremendous importance. [?] only to the years immediately ahead, but to the well being of the Australians of the future…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →£40,000,000 For Wool So Far This Season
THE appraised value of wool catalogued to date is £40,354,574 and the average appraised price per lb, greasy for the Commonwealth is…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Minister Denies Knowledge of Proposal Cut in Butter Ration to Help Britain is Suggested
WITH a view to assisting Britain to maintain her butter ration of 2-oz, a week, the Federal Government will be asked to reduce the Australian ration from 8-oz, to 6-oz. weekly, Canberra reports suggest…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →[?] Bus. More for Non-quota Wheat Higher Advance To Encourage Increased Output This Year
FOR the 1944-45 season the first advance on non-quota wheat is to be 3/- a bushel bagged basis, an increase of almost 1/- a bushel on. the first advance on non-quota wheat in the current pool. The Commonwealth Government has increased the advance on non-quota wheat in order to encourage…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Star Letter of the Week Again "Too Little, Too Late" For Wheat to the Editor of "The Land."
Sir,—After years of appeals to reduce wheat crops it now appears we may be faced with a shortage in N.S.'W, Most, of us had deliverd our…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Trade, Finance & Produce Markets U.K. May Extend Wool Buying U.S. Growers Urge Price Revision To Save Domestic Industry
WASHINGTON, Thursday (A.A.P.) .--It is understood that Britain is negotiating to purchase Dominion wools for another three years. The president of the National…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fruit Crops Suffer
Lack of rain w[?] be responsible for a substantial drop in the estimated fruit yield in the Young district. Prior to the dry spoil, crops ranged from…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Potato Crops Need Rain
DESPITE the dry weather, the main potato crops have made good growth, but substantial falls of rain are required to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Land Girls Harvest Big Crop
These two Land Girls, operating the tractor and header, harvested 2400 bags of oats and wheat on Merrigula Estate, near Premer, this season, Girls working on the property built a slack of 600-odd bags of Belar oats, while nearly 5000 bales of lucerne and oaten hay have been pressed…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Vines Fail to Set Crops
"Poultry Farmer": (1) What is the cause of pumpkin and hubbard vince having only few fruit on? (2) I should like to know how to save sweet…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →50 Bus. Crop Wins S.A. Contest
The champion wheat crop in South Australia for the 1943-44 season was grown by Mr. H. G. Fisher, of Bordertown, who entered 38 acres of Dundee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Army Labor Pool For Farm Work by Our Special Representative
CANBERRA, Thursday.—A pool of Army personnel below the age of 19, has been created from which volunteers were sought from time to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm Buildings & Equipment Necessary Tools For Use When Laying a Drain
THE grader (a) as shown in the accompanying plan is made with piece of wood 1½ inches × 1 inch [?]d about 2ft. 6ins, or 2ft. 9ins…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmers Want Sound Plan For Soldier Settlement; Combined Conference Low Interest Rates; Check on Land Values
"ONE of the most important problems which we have to face in the near future is that of settling young people, and especially returned men, on the land. And I don't mean 'settling' them, as was done after the last war." The General President of the F.S.A. (Mr. B. Cole) used these words on Friday last when opening…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →On & Off the Farm Dutch Tulip Growers Prepare For Peace
Reporting an auction at Spalding of flower growing land attended by bulb growers, including many Dutchmen, an English paper says that…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The War & Farmers; "Unfair Treatment")
SPEAKING at the Country Party Conference hist week on a motion that "Conference viewed with alarm the continued inaction of Federal…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Turkeys' Hanging Crops
"Subscriber": I have a number of young turkeys between 3 and 4 months old and several of them have jollen or hanging crops…
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