Farmers' Day At Experiment Farm
A SMALL group of farmers and their wives enjoyed a day's outing and talks on farm topics at the field day at the Grafton Experiment Farm yesterday. In the morning an…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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Rise in Butter Production
DORRIGO, Fri.--Total butter manufactured at the Dorrigo Dairy Co. for September was 35 tons. an increase of…
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The R.A.A.F. Helicopter has begun a series of crop dusting tests at Laverton, Victoria, to determine its suitability for…
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BRISBANE, Monday.--The Central Council of the Queensland division of the Australian. Country Party to-day decided to request the Federal Government to release petrol from defence stocks to ensure sufficient supplies for the forthcoming wheat…
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East-west Airlines, of Tamworth carried out spraying operations on the first linseed crops to be grown in the Forbes…
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Macleay River Cattle Appeal Committee met at Grafton yesterday, to discuss wa[?]s and means of collecting and…
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The appeal being conducted on the Clarence, on behalf of stricken Macleay River producers, received an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Japan Big Buyer At Wool Sales
NEWCASTLE, Wed. -- Japan was the biggest buyer at the second day of the Newcastle wool sales to-day when a State…
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GOULBURN, Thurs.--A Commonwealth record wool price for the current season was obtained at the Goulburn wool sales…
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LOWER BUCCA.--Nana Glen Junior Farmers have derived much useful knowledge from a visit to the farm of Mr. George…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.--Mr. W. E. Davies, Beaury Creek, Urbenville, with 2133 points out of a possible 2800, has won the coastal dairy farm championship for 1949. The championship was…
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PARIS, Fri. (A.A.P.).--Yugoslavia has given 1500 tons of wheat to the United Nations' International Children's…
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SYDNEY, Friday.--The winner of the Junior Farmers' 1949 State championship competition for maize growing is…
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In his monthly letter to rural producers in this district Mr. R. Napier, secretary to the District Council PP Union, says…
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SYDNEY, Mon.--Damage to the wheat crops in North-West N.S.W., already amounting to more than £100,000, following…
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Following the announcement of the devaluation of sterling and of the Australian pound, Mr. Douglas T. Boyd, chairman of the…
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WEST WYALONG. Mon.--A man was killed when a single barrelled shot-gun with which he was clubbing a snake exploded,…
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ADELAIDE, Mon.--The hailstorm which devastated the area surrounding Barmera, near the Murray River on Saturday…
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THE District Agronomist (Mr. W. H. Darragh) said yesterday that weather conditions were proving favourable for the spread of a disease in beans known as anthracnose. A sample of a diseased bean…
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CANBERRA, Wed.--A statement will be made to Parliament to-morrow on the higher prices for butter for dairy…
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