Fires Will Cut Dairying Output
CANBERRA, Saturday. -- Bushfire damage during the past few months is not expected to have a serious effect on Australia's overall…
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Fires Will Cut Dairying Output
CANBERRA, Saturday. -- Bushfire damage during the past few months is not expected to have a serious effect on Australia's overall…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weekend in the Garden Fertiliser Secret of Flower Crops
One of the secrets of successful flower growing lies in fertilising and cultivating the soil. WHILE animal manures are…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Weekend in the Garden Fertiliser Secret of Flower Crops
One of the secrets of successful flower growing lies in fertilising and cultivating the soil. WHILE animal manures are…
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MELBOURNE, Sat.--Production of motor spirit from wheat will cease in Victoria. A big distillery in the wheat belt, on…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter supplies for cafes, hotels may be cut 50 p.c
Butter supplies to cafes and hotels may be reduced by a half in the next few weeks, officials stated yesterday. Federal authorities are consulting nutrition experts…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Plan for 50 p.c. butter cut at hotels and cafes to increase British supplies
To increase supplies for Britain, butter ration in Australian hotels and cafes will shortly be cut 50 per cent, and control of cream will drastically be tightened. Stating this last night, a Food…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shortage of men forces dairy sale
MOSS VALE, Sat.--A champion dairy herd was auctioned today because the owner could…
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Sir,—I am interested to read that a "high Government official" considers the butter position "desperate." In view of subsequent statements on the…
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CANBERRA, Sunday.—A great drive is to be commenced soon by man-power officers in each State to secure large numbers of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney
All overseas quotes are for Thursday, 17th February, 1941, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney are…
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BOSTON, Feb. 20 (A.A.P.).—When the greatest American wool auction Rales since the last war concluded about 22,000,000lb of a total of 30,000,000lb oftered had been sold…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Wool in U.S. Mr. Scully's Comment
According to news from Canberra, the Minister for Commerce, Mr. Scully, said that stocks of Australian wool were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Amazing Decline in Food Shipments to Britain Butter And Meat Cut By Half
CANBERRA, Monday. -- An amazing decline in the volume of food exported from Australia to Great Britain is revealed in figures supplied…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Trade, Finance & Oversea Markets Great Wool Auction in U.S. Australian Lots Among 22,000,000 lb. Sold To Hundreds Of Buyers
NEW YORK, Sunday (A.A.P.).--About 300 buyers, the most for years, attended the greatest American woof auction--held at Boston for two days--since the last war…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Coomungla Dairy Herd Sold
MOSS VALE, Saturday.—The strongest buying power ever assembled at a dispersal sale in this district was present at the auction sale of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →80,000 Fewer Men on Farms
CANBERRA, Sunday.—The total number of male employees in rural industry is estimated to have decreased from approximately 200,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Quotations Overseas and Sydney
All overseas quotes are for Saturday, February 19, 1944, and are to the nearest one-eighth of a penny. Values elsewhere than in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Wool Clip Packs Not So Heavy
The quantity of wool received at Australian centres to date this season shows an increase of 4 per cent, compared with a year ago,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →India As Post-War Market For Australian Wool FINANCE
IN a survey of Australia's post-war trade prospects with India, Mr. P. Vaidyanathan of the Division of Marketing of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture, foresees the possibility of Japan's eclipse in the Indian market, giving…
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