Adequate Supply of Sacks For Coming Wheat Harvest Minister’s Assurance To Farmers
Maitland Mercury · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 7
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. [?] H. Graham, was loudly cheered when he told the annual conference of the N.S.W. Farmers and Settlers’ Association that last year’s difficulties about the supply of corn sacks…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Worm Infestation in Young Cattle Drenching Not Sufficient for Control
The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 7
In wet seasons especially, ami particularly if animals are poorly nourished, kept on the same overstocked ground or on swampy…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Junior Farmers at Branxton Committee Formed at Public Meeting
Singleton Argus · Friday 6 August 1948 · page 7
A provisional adult advisory committee was formed at Branxton during the week-end to undertake preliminary…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Discussion of Wheat Agreement
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 1
WASHINGTON, August 7. —The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved the International wheat agreement, but no action to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle Wheat Silo Closed
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3
NEWCASTLE.—The wheat silo closed at 6 p.m. yesterday, with one million bushels, the capacity of the silo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wamberal Pea Crop Is District Record Expert's Views Making a Success of Farming
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3
Picking has commenced on a record Gem pea crop at Mrs. H. Swadling's property at Wamberal. Mr. Gordon Smith, one of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farm Engineering Mixing Concrete How to Estimate Quantities of Materials Required
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3
The question often arises on the farm as to how much cement, sand, and metal will be required for concrete for a particular job. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Poultry Farmers Endorse Scheme For Egg Price
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1948 · page 3
Poultry farmers, last night at the meeting of Maitland. branch of Associated Poultry Fanners of Australia, decided to endorse the scheme…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Moving The Wheat Crop
Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 4
SYDNEY, Monday.— The Premier (Mr. McGirr), forecast that before Christmas the N.S.W. Railways would shift to the seaboard…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Charged by Cattle
Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 2
SINGLETON, Monday. — Mr. Erio Clark, of Broke was conveyed to Danger Cottage Hospital by Singleton Ambulance on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Irregular In Sydney
Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 3
SYDNEY, Monday.— Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report 20,610 sheep penned of good quality. The market was irregular. Heavy lambs were…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russia’s Grain Crop
Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 1
LONDON, August 9.—Moscow Radio says that the Russians have harvested half of Russia’s grain crop, which is 25,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pig Raising by Junior Farmer
Maitland Mercury · Monday 9 August 1948 · page 2
The Newcastle Abattoir has [?] the co-operation of the Ray[?] Terrace Junior Farmers’ Club. [?]ganised a pig-rearing project…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pig, Calf and Dairy Cattle Market
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1
New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. (inc. in Eng.), Scone, report having yarded 321 pigs and 49 calves at their…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat and Coal
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 4
From country areas the Government will be asked why it is prepared to allow huge dollar expenditure on the despatch of large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Exposed to Damage
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The Country Party Leader (Mr. Bruxner) said to-day some losses in the balance of last year’s record wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mice and Rats Reason for Shifting Wheat
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1
Mr. J. P. Abbott, Federal member for New England, told the Manilla branch of the Farmers & Settlers Association last Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Registration
The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 2
Some confusion appears to exist amongst local dairy farmers whose farms are situated within the newly created Milk Board…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.Z. Young Farmers At Singleton
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 2
SINGLETON, Tuesday.—A party of New Zealand young farmers paid a visit to the Singleton Dairy Company and to Mr. A. S. R. Shearer’s…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The World’s Biggest Pig Farm
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1948 · page 1
LONDON, August 10.—The world’s biggest pig farm will be established near Blair Athol, Queensland, with the object of sending half a million pigs annually to Great Britain…
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