Wheat Loading Delays
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — A big carryover of this season’s wheat into next season is likely as a result of the delay in loading ships…
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Farming & the land, 1948
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Slow Loading of Ships. Wheat Exports Delayed. Sydney
A big carryover of this season's wheat into next season is likely to be the result of the delay in loading ships in Sydney Harbour. There are…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Spring Cometh Politically. Good Crops Promised
"Dungog Chronicle" is politically prophetic: What with political aspirants and party organisers the political garden…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Kerosene Rationing Farmers' Protests
Farmers who attended a protest meeting., at Looniberah Cricket Ground at the week-end carried a resolution threatening not to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limited
We submitted a representative catalogue of 7.476 bales on Monday, 27th inst., the selection including a number of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers to Visit Muswellbrook
The Singleton Junior FarmersClub will visit Muswellbrook next week to attend a Junior Farmers field day. The club…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton Show Opens in Glorious Weather Grand Display of Horses and Dairy Cattle
SINGLETON, Thursday.—Only a continuation of the [?]oriously sunny weather, such as prevailed to-day, is need[?] [?] to make Singleton S 76th annual show, which opened [?]day, on even greater success than last year’s…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Junior Farmers' Club
The monthly meeting of the Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers' Club was held in the Central School, Raymond Tarrace, on Thursday week last…
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At the monthly meeting ol the Junior Farmers Club held in the Central School room delegates representing the Raymond Terrace and District Agricultural and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judges Had Hight Praises for Sheep and Wool
One of the most Blowing tributes by show judges came from Mr. Roy Burns, judge of the wooL He said the section would compare very favourably with the wool exhibit of any shows in the State…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Show Fat Cattle, Beef cattle Outstanding
Judge of the fat cattle, Mr. R. B. H. Robertson, described the exhibition as "an excellent lot." The quality, he said, was first class and was equal to anything he had ever judged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales
On Wednesday last the New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. brought forward a fully representative…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Values Down at Homebush
Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report 46,843 sheep and lambs penned, generally of good trade to prime Quality. Values were 2/ to 4/ lower…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Cattle Win High Praise From Show Judges A.I.S. and Friesians Outstanding At Singleton
SINGLETON, Friday.—Without exception, judges of the dairy cattle at Singleton Show yesterday were delighted with the quality exhibited, particularly in the A.I.S. and Friesian breeds…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Show, Half Over, Is Up To Highest Standards. Annual Exhibition Staged in Bounteous Season Dairy Cattle Predominate Display—competition in Horses Classes Keen
Officially opened this afternoon at the conclusion of the grand spectacle of the parade of prize-winners, the Singleton Show of 1948—the 76th in the history of the Northern Agricultural Association is up to the highest standards of its predecessors…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£155½ Million for Wool 1947/48 Clip Brings Record Revenue
Australia's revenue derived from wool and fat stock during the 1947/48 season was a record, despite the fact that the volume or production was less…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Productivity Evident in Farming and Industries Sections
The productivity of the district was shown very prominently in the various farming sections and classes, though in some classes few competitors were drawn together. Judges commented favourably…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lucerne Crop Growth In Hunter Valley Phenomenal
Growth of lucerne in the Hunter Valley this year had been phenomenal, but some crops before the September rains had…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Farmers Interested in Rotary Hoes
The many district fanners, who are visiting this year's record Singleton show, are showing a keen interest in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy
Undoubtedly one or the main features of the whole show was the dairy cattle section, in which some very high class animals were paraded before the judges. Strongest section were Australian Illawarra Shorthorns…
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