Wheat Receivals Still On Increase
NEW South Wates wheat continues to arrive steadily at country receival points and the total to Monday last was 71,465,000…
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Many New Uses for Wheat
ALTHOUGH most wheat gees into products made from flour, it also contributes to a wide range of less known…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →No Disease in Cattle Royal Show Decision
All cattle exhibited at this year's Sydney Royal Show (April 1 to 12) must be certified free from disease…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool up 10 per cent
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited reports: Wool auctions were continued in Sydney during the past week. On Monday, the tenth…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Wheat Trains Break Records In Victoria
AN all-time record for wheat handling was set by the Victorian Railways last week, when 4492 trucks of bulk wheat were…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Wheat Research Move in Q'land
THE Queensland Grain Growers' Association executive committee last week decided to consider the establishment of a Wheat Research Institute in…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Central Slopes Wheat Grain Quality Poor
THE quality of Home Central Stopes wheat is very poor, due mainly to severe frosting, according to the Orange…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Diseases, Weeds Reduce Tamworth Wheat Harvest
EARLY lodging, rast, root rots, frost and thistics all took their toll of Tamworth wheat crops and upset yield…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →No Advance In Cattle Breeding Since Jacob's Day
"FRANKLY, I don't think cattle breeding has advanced since the days of Jacob," declared Mr. A, G. F. Machin, county Farmers Union…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Homebush Stock Markets Monday Light Yarding of Sheep
The State Marketing Bureau reports: Numbers submitted showed an appreciable decline when a total of 23,329 head of chiefly very fair quality was penned…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Labelling Of Textiles To Protect Wool
ALL textiles must carry brands showing what they are made of, after October 1, a conference of State Ministers for Labor and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Rises 20 p.c
LONDON, Friday.--The first day of the 1950 London, wool sales included 11,351 bales of Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →London Wool Rises 20 p.c
LONDON, Friday.--The first day of the 1950 London, wool sales included 11,351 bales of Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →In Lead With Sheep Sales For Twenty-seven Years
WITH year's tally of 280,478 sheep sold at Homebush, the Farmers and Graziers' Cooperative Grain Insurance and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →First Half Of Wool Season Set Records
ALL-TIME records for average price per lb. were established in the first half of the current wool selling season ending…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Clip Estimate Up 55,000 Bales
THE current 1949-50 wool clip is now estimated at 3,485,000 bales, an increase of 55,000 bales on an earlier…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Resistant To Rot Can Be Developed
BY breeding and culling, strains of "bright" fleeces relatively resistant to fleece rot or weather stain, have been successfully developed on at least one N.S.W. sheep station. Intensity of yolk colour bears defi-…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wool Trade; Brokers' Reports Crossbred Values up
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Lack of adequate supplies of wool is the basic force influencing prevailing values. The United Kingdom is a case in point and…
Continued on Trove, page 36 →Hitch in Wool Profits Distribution By Trustee Companies
BECAUSE Commonwealth legislation is not clear a problem has arisen over the distribution of wartime wool profits by Australian trustees. The manager of one trustee…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Records In Adelaide Mean More To Graziers
ADELAIDE.—An Adelaide record for wool was established this week. On the first day 103d. per lb. war obtained and later in the sale lO8d. was secured. This does seem a very high…
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