Wool Consumption Grows In U.S.A.
IT would be optimistic to assume that the record wartime rate of wool consumption in America at almost twice the pre-war lovel.,…
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Wider Scope Urged For Inquiry Into Dairy Farm Costs
INDIRECT as well as direct coasts in the dairy industry should he examined by the Commonwealth Government's Committee,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Goulburn Ram Sales Attract Offerings Of Excellent Sheep From Noted Studs Helping Flock Improvement First Offering On January 23 Will Be Held On Wool Show Floor Merinos, British Breeds, Corriedales
RAM sales will be held on two days at Goulburn this year. The first sale will be conducted on January 23 by the Fanners and Graziers' Co-op. G.I. and A. Co. Ltd., in that firm's wool store in Verner Street. The second sale will be the combined fixture by Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Ltd., and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sth. Aust. Rejects Wheat Plan by 241 Votes in Govt. Ballot
NEWS has just been received that the ballot of wheat-growers in South Australia, which was provided by the Government to determine whether the legislation for the Wheat Stabilisation Scheme should operate…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Proposals For Grain Fattening Of Beef Cattle Put Spotlight On Experience In U.S.A.
DECENT comments on the hand feeding of beef cattle for slaughter have invariably accepted American experience as the basis. This is not unjustified as the fattening of beef cattle on grain was widely adopted on a large scale in the United States after the 1914-18 war…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To Report on World Wool Position Dr. Edgar Booth to Visit Australia
AUSTRALIA'S representative and Chairman of the international Wool Secretariat (Dr. Edgar Booth) will…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Outlook Is Not Bright Rising Cost Of Feed Reduction Of Backyard Flocks Advocated
THROUGHOUT 1947 the wheatgrower would be faced with as great a problem in regard to feed supplies as would the metropolitan poultry farmer, general secretary of Associated Poultry Farmers of Australia (Mr. L. T. Pearce)…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Bounteous Season In Murray Pastoral Areas Green Grass Makes Pleasing Picture From Holbrook To Corryong Beef Studs Prepare for "Royal"
PASTORALISTS in some southern N.S.W. areas are enjoying one of the most bounteous seasons recorded in two decades. Some claim they have never experienced a season when the grass has remained green for such a long period into the hot summer months, but all agreed that if such conditions could prevail indefinitely, most…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →World Use Of Wool Expected To Exceed All Past Records AS Mills Move Again No Preference For Synthetics
WHEN all countries gradually recover from the ill-effects of the war, demand for wool should be more widespread than ever before. In the Middle East, Mexico, Brazil and other countries manufacturing has extended and consumption of the sheep's staple increased…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Oat Crop Failure Presents Seed Problem
Failure of oat crops, which has been almost general throughout New South Wales, has raised a serious seed problem, states Mr. H. Bartlett,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Govt. Lag in Drought Relief Farmers Want Action
INCERTAINTY and anxiety regarding the Government's drought relief payments covering last season's crop losses is being felt…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Robert Burns and the Australian Farmer
IT is not generally known— although it may often have been suspected—that Mr. Hugh S. Roberton, the General President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wider Inquiry Into Dairying Costs Urged Subsidy "Minimum offer"
REFERENCE to the rising costs, direct and indirect, in the dairying industry, in their relation to the 1d…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Potato Crops Need Rain
POTATO crops in some districts are in need of rain, reports Mr. C. A. Orman, special agricultural instructor, but those in the Dorrigo area are very…
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AT the time of writing it was anticipated that the Government would end the so-called meat strike by approving an increase in the wholesale ceiling price which would be passed on to the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →ON and Off the Farm [?] New Manager on M.I.A.
Mr. A. Mallaby, of the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commissioner's research staff, has been appointed manager on the M.I.A., in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State's Most Unique Flower Farmer Supplies Market 300 Miles Away Mr. Frank Brown, of Dalton Nursery, Dubbo, is probably the State's most unique flower farmer. Though his flower farm is situated at Dubbo, in the heart of the Central West, 300 miles from Sydney, he has successfully jousted with near metropolitan flower growers for the fussy Sydney cut-flower trade
By sending only clean, top quality blooms, free of thrip and other blemishes Mr. Brown has established an enviable market with one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sidelights on Farming Soybean Foam Fights Fires
A liquid made from soybeans is now available which when mixed with water…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Applies Business Principles To Farm and Orchard
WELL-KNOWN Dubbo business man, Mr. C. Cunningham, in six years has converted a 22-acre-waste land block into a thriving irrigation farm and…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Grain Sorghum Crops Promise Well
Good rains were received in most maize districts during December, but were patchy on the Upper North Coast, stated Mr. W. D. Kerle, special…
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