Coarse Wool Prices Steep Increases
Average costs of coarse wool in Australia have risen more steeply than other qualities since sales of the present…
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Offerings Of Fat Stock Were Smaller At Homebush Yards Last Year High Wool Prices Main Reason For Lower Sheep Numbers
FOR the year ended December 31, 1950, 2,159,690 sheep were told at the Homebush saleyards, a decline from the 2,834,513 sold during the previous year. Cattle sales, at 209,808, were fewer than the 212,333 sold in the previous year. There was an…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →36[?] Million Bushels Of Wheat In
Thirty-six and a half million bushels of new season's grain had now been delivered to the Wheat Board in New South…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sacks, Ovean Freights Worrying Wheat Board
THE Pakistan-India dispute was making at almost impossible to arrange contracts for supplies of wheat sacks for next harvest. Mr. J. S. Teasedale, chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Fixing F.a.q. for Wheat
The date for the fixing of the F.A.Q. Standard for wheat of the 1950-51 season for New South Wales has been set down…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.Z. Request For Higher Butter Prices Rejected
NEW ZEALAND'S request for an Increase of the contract price for her butter and cheese exported to Britain was refused, according to reports recolved from Now Zealand this weak,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Coy. Pays 46½ p.c
Squatting Investment Co. Ltd., sheep station owners, Melbourne, is paying a dividend of 46½ per cent, on the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Small Wool Yarn Stocks, Big Orders
A Bradford message says latest returns show that the output of British wool yarn and cloth is still reaching new…
Continued on Trove, page 24 →2,200 Bags Wheat Damaged in Fire
A fire in the wheat stacks at Peak Hill, last week, damaged 2,200 bags of wheat, before being extinguished after two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. Ambassador Studies African Wool Industry
NEW American Ambassador to South Africa (Mr. John a. Erhardt) has completed a 10-day tour of the Karroo and other…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Good Profits Possible From Timber In Farm Woodlots Well Managed Crop Of Trees Has Many Advantages
FARMERS in several parts of New South Wales were buying firewood or coal to use in their homes, which was a ridiculous situation, said Mr. S. Farrell, senior forester, N.S.W. Forestry Commission, advocating tho development of farm forestry…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Changing ideas In Dairy Farm Layout
SOME of our moro established idea about dairying might go by the board, according to the British architect, Mr. W. G. Bendy, and Mr. R. W. Chadburn, M.A. in the (British) "Power…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →F.s.a. Executive Council Discusses 20 Per Cent. Wool Tax Deduction
THE F.S.A. Executive Council this week discussed the 20 per cent, wool sales tax deduction and, on the motion of Mr, J. P. Cass and Mr. J. H. Alty, endorsed the action of the Executive Committee in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Women's Interests Girl Flier On Unique Job, Lifting Wool From Flood-Bound North West
ONLY woman flier in Australia operating heavy aircraft, has been co-piloting a Lockheed Lodestar in the North-west corner of N.S.W. lifting wool from flood-bound station properties in that area, to enable it to be placed on the market while record wool…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →First Stage Of International Wool Promotion Comp lete World Wide Activities Described In Bureau's Annual Report
WITH the establishment of practically a world-wide organisation for wool promotion, the International Wool Secretariat completed tho first stags of its work during the year 1949-50. This is stated in the It4h annual repo1rt of the Australian Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 20 →Sidelights on Farming Simplifying Cotton Picking
Mechanical cotton harvesting is a recent development in…
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THE announcement that the basic wage isto rise by a further 8/- a week next month, coming on top of the recent special increase of 19/- resulting from the decision…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cambridge Man, Egyptian Aristocrat Seek N.s.w. Farm Jobs
A CAMBRIDGE University student of agriculture and an Egyptian aristocrat are among people who want rural occupations in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lime, Super. Puts Fertility Into Lower Hunter Farm
PART of a Rothbury farm had shown marked soil fertility after treatment with lime and superphosphate, Mr. G. T. Dawson said last week. Mr. Dawson, agronomist of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Five Zones in R.A.S. Farm, Fodder Contests
FIVE Zones of New South Wales are to compete this year for the Royal Agricultural Society's. Farm and Fodder championship competitions. Entries close on June 1 for the…
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