Catering at Cattle Sales
At a meeting of the South Grafton C.W.A. yesterday, arrangements were finalised for catering at Goldsbrough Mort…
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Farming & the land, 1951
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Wheat Harvest Below Record
CANBERRA, Monday-- Australia's wheat harvest for 1950-51 season totalled 183,400,000 bushels-- 16.7 per cent. below the record crop of 1947-48…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Dairy Company Had Humble Start
From a humble start as a factory at Alumny Creek in 1893, the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd. had grown to its present size with a turnover of a third of million pounds annually and…
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BRISBANE, Tues. -- Sheep Worth £15,000 have been burnt to death in a fire which has swept through five sheep…
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MELBOURNE, Tues. -- The world's highest price for wool, 411d per lb., was realised for one bale of extra fine merino lambs'…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →COMMERCIAL Fat Cattle Dearer
Dalgety and Co. Ltd. report a medium yarding at the weekly cattle sale yesterday. Fat cattle showed a marked advance on last week's rates,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Pioneers Pass Away
The death occurred at Lindfield, Sydney recently, of two former Fernmount residents who were wellknown and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Price for Wool
MELBOURNE, Thurs. -- A jump of 16d. per pound in the world record price for any type of wool took place during the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diamond Jubilee Cattle Sale
Sixty years ago, Messrs. W. J. Hawthorne and So[?] conducted their first annual cattle sale at South Grafton…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Cost Formula Not Acceptable To Prices Ministers
The Chief Prices Commissioners of the New South Wales Prices Branch, Mr. White, had informed an A.P.P.U. deputation, consisting of Messrs.. B G. Dawson, A. Nardi and G. Johnston,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Appeal Against Dairy Whip Fine
SYDNEY, Fri.--To prosecute a dairy company for selling dairy whip because certain people sold it to the public under the guise of fresh cream seemed as illogical as taking action against a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hailstorm Ruins Fruit Crops
LAUNCESTON, Sun.--The worst hail and thunderstorm in 50 years swept areas of the Tamar Valley yesterday,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Company's Good Half Year
Grafton Co-operative Dairy Company experienced a good half year for the period ending December 31,1950. That was revealed at the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Want Gorge Scheme
LISMORE.--Delegates to the quarterly meeting of the Richmond District Council of the P.P.U. decided to support…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Death Of Britain's Oldest Farmer
LONDON, Tues. (AAP).--Britain's oldest farmer, Norfolkman Dan Bullen, died yesterday aged 104, one month after he retired…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Compensation Legislation
Fuller details are now available of the Bill which is to be introduced into the next session of State Parliament for the payment of compensation to owners of cattle which die or are destroyed as a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Must Raise Beef and Butter Production
SYDNEY, Wed.--By 1960, Australia, unless she can raise home production, will need to import meat at two and a half times her pre-war export rate. Butter exports will have dropped to almost…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Twenty-Five Years On Dairy Board
Mr. W. M. L. Hughes, chairman of the Grafton Co-operative Company, at a recent meeting me of the board, congratulated…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Killing Charges Raised
CASINO.--AT killing charges at Casino Meatworks have been increased by 10 per cent. This is the first rise in charges…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmer Killed; Tractor-Train In Collision
TAREE. Thurs.--A dairy farmer was fatally injured this afternoon, when his tractor collided with a train at a…
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