Sheep Show
SYDNEY.— Sydney’s Jubilee Sheep Show will be held from May 26 to May 28. The official opening will be on Friday, May…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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Wool Report. the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Company Limited, 6th MAY, 1949. Wool. Report
We submitted a catalogue of 8,367 bales drawn from a fairly wide area of the State. The selection included numerous attractive wools of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Experts to Wage War on Cattle Pests
A cattle expert will soon conduct the biggest experiment of its kind attempted to control the buffalo fly and cattle tick. He is Mr. E. G. Roberts. He…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report 6th May, 19[?]9
We submitted a catalogue of 8367 bales drawn from a fairly wide area of the State. The selection included numerous…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →P.P.U. Would Oppose 40-Hr. Week for Dairying Farmers to Fight A.W.O. Log of Claims
As an employers' organisation the Primary Producers Union would oppose any move to introduce a 40-hour week, into the dairy industry, union vice-president, Mr. S. J. Haig said at the Central Hunter P.P.U. Council meeting yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Exports May Be Worth More Than £200,000,000
Value of wool exports for the current financial year will be a record, and will probably exceed £200 million…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Mechanisation in America Still in Full Swing
NEW YORK: Farming in the United States continues to undergo important changes. A review by the United States Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Charles F. Brennan, shows that the trend towards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairy Whip Popular
SINGLETON. Friday.—Mr. W. E. M. Snape presenting the report on the milk sectional committee meeting in Sydney at…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Won't Oppose Manufacture of "Dairy Whip"
Without resolution yesterday, the Central Hunter P.P.U. Council agreed not to oppose the distribution of "Dairy Whip"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“Font Hill” No. 3: Wheat Once Flourished On Farley Estate “Poor” Land Gave Wealth From Coal
Captain Emmanuel Hungerford had had the opportunity, an first arriving an the Hunter, of purchasing the Bolwarra estate from the Government, at the cost of 1/6 per acre, but instead, bought the property he named Farley…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Another Conviction Breach of Farm Produce Agents Act
Another prosecution launched recently by the Department of Agriculture against an Agent Company operating at the City Markets for a breach…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Night Raids Leave Gaps in Graziers' Flocks Stolen Sheep From North Sold on Coastal Black Market
Rustlers using double-decker motor trucks were stealing about 70 sheep a week in the New England district, a grazier said at the week-end. He has a station near Glen Innes. The thieves, he said,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Eight Farmers For Fodder Competition
Eight Singleton farmers nave entered in the Royal Agricultural Society's Fodder Conservation competition, and two other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →EDITORIAL Our Cattle Industry
SOME interesting statistics relating to the cattle industry are given in Messrs. Winchcombe Carson’s annual wool and stock review, an advance copy of which is to hand from the publishers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Charged With Sheep Stealing
WAGGA WAGGA, Tuesday.— Thomas Edmond Keith Ryan, 53, stock inspector for 30 years, was charged at Wagga Wagga police…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Better Tone in Wool Market
BRISBANE: There was a better tone yesterday in the market than last week at the Brisbane wool sales- Bidding was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day’s Leader: Our Cattle Industry Effect of Electricity Cuts
SYDNEY, Tuesday—The 20 per cent. cut in industrial use of electricity will result In increased production costs, which will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Honour to English Farmer
In the annals of Wiltshire farming, few men have had more practical achievements than Mr. Arthur Julius Hosier, of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Price of Butter
CANBERRA, Wednesday.—A dec[?] that he had any knowledge of any proposal for an increase in the price of butter was made to-day by…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Smashed Down Fence
During question time at last night’s meeting of Maitland City Council, Aid. A. Finney asked if something could be done to avoid…
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