Best Cattle Dearer at Homebush
SIDNEY, Thursday.—Winchcombe Carson Lt. report: 20,739 sheep penned of mixed quality. The market opened very strong…
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Farming & the land, 1947
1,593 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 80
China Asks For Wheat And Cotton
WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — UNRRA announced that the Chinese Government has requested 200,000,000 dollars worth of wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Contract with N.z. “Bargain Prices,” Says Country Party Member
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Replying to a question by Mr. Fuller (Lab.) In the House of Representatives, the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain Improves Dairy Outlook
“Because good pastures and crops are assured for some time, now that good rains have fallen, dairy farmers are advised to refrain from…
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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports 18/2/47:—We offered a good average selection of merino, comeback and x-bred…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Georgina Cattle Country
At the end of a season regarded as the most disastrous drought period in the State's history, an average dressed weight of 870lb for a mob of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Deal Attacked
A tax "slug" of £2,000,000 was to be imposed on the Australian public this year to provide cheap wheat for New Zealand…
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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report: We offered a good average selection of merino, comeback and crossbred descriptions,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →97-Million Bushels Wheat From Season
Deliveries of this season's wheat have almost been completed in all States, and are expected to total 97 to 98 million bushels, the chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Wool Received. U.s.a. Situation
Winchcombe Carson report:— Receipts of wool in Australia for the seven month ending January 31 this season totalled 2,538,798 bales, an…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Subsidy for Dairy Farmers. Drought Payment for August-december Period
The Commonwealth Government has decided to pay a drought subsidy to dairy farmers for the period from August to December…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday.—The Commonwealth Government has decided to pay a drought subsidy to dairy farmers for the period from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Improving Soil Fertility Farmer Urges Wider Use of Lime
Cheaper and more efficient distribution of lime in the good rainfall areas of New South Wales would lead to its wider use as a means of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairymen Criticise Drought Relief Subsidies “Government Niggardly Towards Primary Producers”
SYDNEY, Friday. — The recent drought relief grant was far less than dairymen were entitled to and left, producers generally with a feeling that niggardliness to primary producers was part of the policy of the Government…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying Statistics
From July Ist last to the end of October, Australia produced 46,250 tons of butter, compared with 42,120 tons in the same months a year…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ancient Indian Bean Plant American Farmers Find New Uses
CHICAGO (Associated Press).— Guar, a ban plant native to India where it has been grown as human food for many centuries,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Tubercle-free Dairy Areas
SINGLETON: The District Veterinary Officer from the Department of Agriculture Wrote to the Municipal Council…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Went Surfing
A strange incident occurred at Lorne (Vic.) when seven Hereford cattle rushed into the ocean and swam out to sea for about 500 yards. They…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Washing of 20Th Century Bishop’s Pastoral Letter
The miming being sounded in our care to-day was the warning Christ gave to his disciples 19 centuries ago, said the Bishop of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Maitland Show Opens To-morrow Horse And Cattle Sections Will Be Strong
Maitland Show which opens to-morrow will be well up to the standard of the best of the pre-war exhibitions. The break caused by the war greatly affected the organisation of the show, but members of the show council have…
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