Homebush Stock Markets Monday Sheep Values Firm
The State Marketing Bureau reports: Sheep and lambs were fairly well represented on Monday, when a total of 44,183 head was yarded. Wethers and ewes available…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Farming & the land, 1944
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Normal Finish With Wool Likely
IN New South Wales the appraising position has changed. Earlier in the season it was difficult to fill catalogues because of want of available…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →America Sells Some Wool Stocks
RECENTLY fairly large supplies of Imported wool hold In stock by the United States Government were sold by auction in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Queensland Weekly Letter Wheat Supply Problems
A DIFFICULT position in Queensland's domestic wheat supply continues. According to a member of the State Wheat Board…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Criticism of Delay in Wheat Payments
MOST wheatgrowers were financially exhausted because they were expected to wait over 12 months for payment by the Government for thier product, and unless relief was soon given, many farms would cease…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Weather Will Govern Bigger Wheat Sowings
WHEATGROWERS would probably increase the areas sown in the coming season providing rain fell within the next few weeks to permit of seed bed preparation, field officers of the N.S.W. Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Better Bread From Harder Wheat, Says Expert
IF the Wheat Board encouraged farmers to grow hard varieties of wheat by giving them guaranteed premiums. Australia would get…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →English Wool Trade Has Fears For Its Products
EXPORT to the Dominions and South America of English woollen goods in expected to be seriously affected at the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Short Period of Testing Not in Best Interest of Dairy Farmers
HERD testing, if done thoroughly and systematically, is one of the best means of ascertaining which are the highest producing cows in the herd, thus indicating to the farmer the cows which should be retained and the cow…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Winter Milk Shortage Dairy Farmers' Warning
"Dairy farmers have warned the Government of the dangers ahead. If practical steps are not taken to prevent a serious…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Suggests Premium By Board For All Hard Wheat Delivered
AS a means of securing adequate supplies of high quality wheat Dr. S. L. Macindoe, acting cereal specialist of the Department of Agriculture, sug. gests that the Australian Wheat Board should guarantee a moderate premium for all such wheat delivered…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Appeal to Grow More Wheat But No Extra Super. Available Scully's Statement by Our Special Representative
CANBERRA, Wednesday.âAn appeal to wheatgrowers throughout Australia, and especially in the eastern…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Faults in Fleece Affect Price Another English Buyer Tells What He Seeks in Our Wool Offerings
INFORMATION of considerable interest to Australian woolgrowers is given by Mr. J. A. Eldon, wool buyer for Messrs. Fox Bros, and Co. Ltd., woollen manufacturers, Wellington, Somerset, England, in a letter' to the "Farmer and Settler."…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →On & Off the Farm
STILL INTERESTED IN FARMING.—A group of former girl members of Junior Farmers' Clubs interested in tho exhibits of present members at the recent J.F.C. Show at Gerringong. From left: Misses Edith Millor, Nona Sharpe, Nancy Miller, Eileen Miller, Daisy Mateo and Joan Miller…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →F.S.A. President's Letter Price Fixing and Farmers' Prosperity; The Real Story
FELLOW-MEMBERS,—In favor and justification of price fixation very great prominence has recently been given by several authorities to the total sum for primary commodities produced last year. The strong…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Tyres For Farmers; Minister's Reply
HEPLYING to Sir Earle Page's charge that discrimination had been in the treatment, of farmer application for tyres the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Restriction on Amount of Meat Killed for Farm Use Position Explained By Minister by Our Special Representative
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—There is no restriction on the amount of meat that farmers may kill for consumption by their household or employees; and a small group of farmers may take it in turn to slaughter an…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →To Push Farm Mechanisation
Mechanisation of dairy farms in Now South Wales is extending, and close on 50 dairy factories, including three rural co-operative societies,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Taking the Drought Risk Out of Farming
A spray irrigation system in operation on a five-acre crop of San Marsana canning tomatoes growing under army contract in the Hawkesbury River district. This picture was taken on the property of Mr. W. D. Turnbull, at Wilberforce…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →'Hoppers Ravage Farms On Monaro
THE worst grasshopper plague in Southern Tableland history is ravaging Monaro district. When men went out a week or so…
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