Nominations Called For Wheat Committee Vacancy
ARRANGEMENTS were set in train yesterday by the N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) to call nominations for the grower…
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India Was Australia's Best Wheat Customer
INDIA was the largest buyer of Australian wheat and flour for the period December 1, 1948, to November 26, 1949, according to figures released by the Australian Wheat Board While India took 37,604,207…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Wool Technologist For New Research Centre
APPOINTMENT of Dr. M. Lipson as officer-in-charge of the Geelong unit of the Wool Textile Research Laboratories is announced by C.S.I.R.O The Geelong laboratory is to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →New Chairman of State Wheat C'ttee
MR L. S. HARRISON, former N.S.W. Wheat Commissioner and Manager of Government Grain Elevators, has been appointed to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Foreign Firm Finds Stain in Aust. Wool
THE GRAZIERS' COUNCIL has asked the C.S.I.R.O. to investigate the occurrence of minute stains in some Australian wool, about which an…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Shipping Lack Could Cause Wheat Bottleneck At Ports
LACK of shipping could seriously hold up transportation of last season's wheat, it was stated in Sydney yesterday Up to the present wheat has…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Bathurst Farm Fruit Crop Exceptional
THIS season's stone fruit crop at Bathurst Experiment Farm is exceptionally good—both quality and size of the fruit being outstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wide Variations In Dairy Farm Costs Many Factors Govern Achievement Of High Economic Efficiency Interesting Comparisons On State Basis
THERE is an all too common tendency within the dairy industry to confuse technical efficiency with economic efficiency, on an erroneous assumption that high technical efficiency, as measured merely by the output per cow, must necessarily be identical with high economic efficiency as measured by a low cost per unit of output…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Trade; Brokers' Reports Wellington Special Stock Sale
Goldsbrough Mort rind Coy. Ltd., Parkes and Orange, in conjunction with George Paul, Wellington, report on their special sheep and cattle sale at…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Record Takings at Gunning Show Merino Stud Sheep Breeders Provide Magnificent Display
THOUGH heatwave conditions prevailed for Gunning's 49th annual show last week-end, gate takings were a record and entries were 300 more than last year. The district is the centre of some…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Losses of Young Sheep From Heavy Worm Infestation; Advice on Phenothiazine Use
THE C.S.I.R.O. has advised graziers to use increased dosages of phenothiazine to combat increased worm infestation in sheep in many districts of eastern Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 40 →Big Expansion In Queensland Wheat Area Likely Labor on Closer Settlement
BRISBANE.—A record of about 700,000-acres it expected to be sown to wheat in Queensland this year, the State Wheat Board manager (Mr. C. C. McKeon) has stated. It was of interest to note, he said, that there was considerably inquiry front areas that were widely separated…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →This Week's Dog Story Pip Was the Laziest Sheep Dog—until She Was Given Away!
DOGS which remain lazy and indifferent to discipline in some hands become great mates, intelligent and efficient workers with other people. Pip was like that…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →New England Graziers Claim Present Season Never Bettered Near Record Rains, Heavy Pastures Give Cattle Good Start For Winter
MANILLA.—In the opinion of grazaziers throughout New England, the season now being experienced there has seldom, if ever, been excelled. Following a good spring, near record summer rains have been responsible for heavy pasture growth. If this body of feed is not dried out too quickly by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →F.S.A. Branch News and Notes N.s.w.wheat Handling System Is 25 Years 'Behind Times'
NEW SOUTH WALES was 25 years behind the times in the way it handled its wheat crop. Mr. Crawford, of Mt. Russell, said this at Inverell F.S.A. District…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wheat Crisis Threatens In N.S.W. Agreed Price with U.K. Not Decided By Our Agricultural Editor
Failure of the Australian Wheat Board to come to terms with the British Ministry of Food for the purchase of a large part of last season's surplus wheat may lead to a crisis in the wheat industry in New…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Week's Markets Reviewed Dairy Produce Sussex street Wholesale Markets State Marketing Bureau reports
Sussex street Wholesale Markets The State Marketing Bureau reports: BUTTER: Production showed a slight rise and this improvement is expected…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Farm Building and Construction Fuel Copper for the Farm
ELECTRICITY and gas have, within town limits and in some electrically-served country areas, eliminated the fuel copper, but a properly bricked-in fuel copper boiler gives economical and quick service…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →How a Migrant Made a Champion Farm
THE Shepparton farmer who won the Victorian dairy farm championship by more than 200 points from…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Aberdeen Angus-dairy Cow Cross Proves Profitable
ELEVEN steers and heifers by Trangie Experiment Farm Aberdeen Angus bulls from Guernsey and Jersey Farm house cows, were sold recently for just over £19 a head…
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