The Flemington fat cattle market yesterday fluctuated with a weaker trend during early sales because of the increased yarding of prime station bullocks. For a ...
Article : 585 wordsAfter the "spelling" of the ground last season because of the drought, Victorian farmers have been encouraged by excellent autumn rains to expect this year the best ...
Article : 158 wordsThe State Cabinet is unlikely to accept many of the recommendations for fire prevention and suppression made by Judge Stretton ...
Article : 537 wordsPrices for porkers cased slightly at the Melbourne pig market yesterday. Although competition in the section for stores was keen. It was inclined to slacken at the close of the sales ...
Article : 205 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Australian, Dairy Produce Board has decided to reduce the weekly shipments of butter to the United Kingdom to 1,500 tons. The ...
Article : 300 wordsBALRANALD.—Mr. W. B. Mcculloch has been re-elected chairman of the Pastures Protection Board for the district of Balranald. Mr. A. Watts is deputy ...
Article : 1,636 wordsStone and Co. report sale for week ending May 23;—Beef—Special light bodies. 40/ to 41/ per 100lb; prime bodies, 35/ to 38/; medium bodies, 30/ to 35/; prime hinds, 44/ to 46/; prime ...
Article : 125 wordsBarrow Bros, Commission Agency Pty. Ltd., 460-466 Flinders lane, Melbourne, report having auctioned (May 24):—Pork—Moderate supply, Prime porkers 9¼d, to 9¾d., good 8½d, to 8¾d.; prime ...
Article : 65 wordsThe first importation of noteworthy Ayrshire stock to Victoria since 1905 will take place next month, with the arrival of the first of a choice team of Ayrshires, ...
Article : 195 wordsADELAIDE, Wednesday. — Another comparatively small yarding of sheep and lambs was offered at auction at the abattoirs to-day. With the keen inquiry values appreciated from 1/ to 1/6 a head ...
Article : 291 wordsPrices of butter in London on Tuesday rose by 1/ to 2/ per cwt., making the quotation tor choicest salted Australian about 106/ per cwt. The demand was ...
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Advertising : 827 wordsOUYEN, Wednesday.—With the object of gaining first-hand knowledge of the process of wheat silo construction in Victoria, the Minister for Transport (Mr. ...
Article : 164 wordsSYDNEY, Wednesday.—Tasmanian oaten straw, £4/10/. wheaten £4/10/; Victorian oaten hay, £11 a ton; maize, North Coast, prime yellow 3/10, white 4/ a bushel; millet, prime £40, occasionally £43, ...
Article : 381 wordsMILDURA, Wednesday.—Witnesses for the Australian Workers' Union claim for a new award in the fruit industry gave evidence to-day before Judge O'Mara at ...
Article : 135 wordsFat Bullocks ...
Article : 2,381 wordsOUYEN, Wednesday.—An assurance that steps would be taken to prevent Itinerants from becoming stranded at Ouyen on their long trek to Mildura next ...
Article : 166 wordsCommunity singinz is being used as a diversion to keep minds alert at the vacation school of agriculture being conducted by the Victorian Young Farmers' ...
Article : 168 wordsWheels are being oiled in backyards in Geelong for a "soap-box derby" on July 1. Many drivers from Melbourne are expectcd for the event, which will be in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 331 wordsBALLARAT, Wednesday.—At the Ballarat pig market to-day there was a moderate supply of baconers, which met with firm competition. Quotations:—Best, £4/14/; prime medium, £3/11/ to ...
Article : 694 wordsA meeting of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Milk Distributors' Association was held yesterday to discuss a report on the deputation which waited on the Minister ...
Article : 157 words"Annullo" asks how a barometric reading such as 29,970 is taken, as his barometer is calibrated only in tenths of an inch. The explanation is that at the Weather Bureau ...
Article : 102 wordsThe number of cattle and sheep in Victoria fell considerably in the year ended March 31, according to figures issued yesterday by the Government Statist (Mr. O. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 169 wordsPictures showing the damage being done throughout Victoria by erosion were shown to those present at the Rotary Club luncheon yesterday by the Superintendent ...
Article : 91 wordsBENDIGO, Wednesday.—At the Bendigo competitions this afternoon the following awards were made:— Solo (selection from Sehubert Grieg, or ...
Article : 184 wordsA large supply of delivery horses was offered for sale this week, and of the 100 animals sold at auction by Campbell and Sons at South Melbourne yesterday, at least 75 were of the light to ...
Article : 153 wordsThe 21st annual conference of the Orchardists' and Fruit Cool Stores Association of Victoria will be opened in the Dromana Hall, Dromana, at 12.30 p.m. ...
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Advertising : 262 wordsSTUDENTS OF MODERN FARMING keenly interested in a lecture yesterday at the school of agriculture being conducted by the Victorian Young Farmers' Clubs' Association in the Melbourne Boys' High School. The school will remain open until June 2. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 38 wordsVICTORIA. — Mallee—Birchip, 1 point, Wimmera—Edenhope, 2 points, Western—Portland, 3 points; Warrnambool, 1; Cape Otway, 8; Apollo Bay, 6; Hamilton, 4; Ararat, 5; Ballaiat, 3; ...
Article : 602 wordsGENERAL.—"Some clearing showers in southern districts, contracting eastward to Gippeland, otherwise fine, with some inland frosts. Moderate south-west to ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 101 wordsSun. rises 7.20, sets 8.13; moon, rises 12.14 p.m., sets 11.38 p.m.; full moon, June 2; new moon, June 17, Major Planets.—Mercury, rises 6.3 a.m., bets ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Thu 25 May 1939, Page 13
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