Variation In Wool Values Not Serious
VARIATION in wool values recently experienced, cannot be regarded as a serious set-back in values. The movement puts prices…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming & the land, 1948
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Wool Sales No Auctions Before Easter
NATIONAL Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia advised early this week that as the shipping position had not…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Hold-up of Wool Sales Continues
BECAUSE of the continuance of the Queensland industrial trouble, wool sales in New South Wales are still held up…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Refund of 1946-47 Wheat Tax Likely
PROVIDED the International Wheat Agreement becomes operative in August, the Commonwealth Government will refund wheatgrowers' contributions from the 1946-47 harvest in the Wheat Stabilisation Fund. This was announced by the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →1946-47 Wheat Exported At 15/6
AVERAGE price realised on wheat exported from the 1946-47 harvest was 15/6 per bushel, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wool Income £94.7mil. 8 Months' Sales
Wool sold in Australia in the eight months ended February realised £94,723,770, against £56,416,334 for the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Self-sown Wheat Yields Five Bags Per Acre
WHEAT up to five bags per acre is being harvested in the northwest from self sown crops, reports the Gunnedah agronomist…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Eight Months' Wool Is Worth £94,723,770
EIGHT months wool of the current Australian sales was worth £94,723,770. Wool sold for the period from July 1, 1947, to February 29, 1948,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Outstanding Cattle Display at Record Blayney Show by Our Special Representative
THERE was an all-time record attendance at Blayney's annual show last week-end. One of the outstanding features of the exhibition was the fine display of beef, dairy and fat cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Drop in Wheat Acreage Forecast Seeding Problems Follow Abnormal Summer Rains
IT would appear that, on present indications, the area to be sown to wheat in 1948 will show a marked…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warning On Fine Wool Decline "Research Would Not Bring Back Dispersed Flocks"
IT was time that the Australian politicians decided whether a great and prosperous wool industry was needed in the national economy, because all the planning of scientific research would not bring back the flocks of Merino breeding ewes, or the skilled persons who owned and managed them, once their dispersal had taken place, chairman of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lively Wheat Debate Expected In Reps. Owners Must Keep Closer Settlement Estates Free of Rabbits
A WARNING that estates must be kept free of rabbits was issued this week by the Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) to owners of properties which wore under the process of negotiations for splitting up into soldier settlement blocks…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Democratic Safeguards; A Farmer's Viewpoint F.S.A. Chief at Commerce Dinner
"WITHOUT PRODUCTION there could have been no Commerce and without Commerce there could have been no Democracy," declared the President of the Farmers and Settlers' Association of N.S.W. (Mr. Hugh S. Roberton) when…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Two-Roomed Farmhouse
"Builder": As this house will be well under the limit of 1,200 sq. ft. for fibro or weatherboard, and 1,250 sq. ft for brick, no permit is required…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →M.I.A.'s Record Peach Crop
Leeton co-operative cannery is busy canning what is claimed to be the greatest peach crop ever seen on the M.I.A. The season is expected to…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Too Much Rain For Vegetable Crops
Spring and summer weather conditions in the area covered by Gordon Edgell and Sons Ltd., vegetable packers, were too wet for maximum…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Breeding Farm.stock.veterinary Blowfly Problem Widespread This Season; Body Strike More Prevalent Than Breech Strike
THIS season appears to be one of the worst on record for blowfly strike in sheep. Sheep owners in most localities continue to complain bitterly of the ravages of the blowfly. The actual loss from deaths in many flocks has reached as high as 10 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 19 →Farm Building and Construction Construction of A Fireplace and Chimney That Will Draw
WHETHER you build the chimney of your home yourself, or employ skilled labor to do it, the knowledge that you gain from the study of this article will pay dividends as it will be possible for you to sit beside your winter fire without being smoked out of the room…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Our Inquiry Department Solves Your Problems and Saves Your Money Building Farmhouse
"Subscriber": (1) If you are building a house on your own farm for your own use, there is no need for you to obtain [?] permit, even for the house you…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →Farm Competition Winners Leave on World Tour
THE Rural Bank's team of three practical farmers, with a manager and economist, left for overseas by the Matson freighter Alemeda…
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