Wet Weather Deays Crop Planting
The district dairy officer (Mr. W. G. Smith) reports that too much wet weather has caused some concern to farmers…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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Pastures and Crops In Good Condition
SINGLETON, Wed. —The stock inspector of the Denman-Singleton Pastures Protection Board (Mr. S. Phillips) reported to a meeting of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass Tetany In Dairy Cows
In a herd of 100 milking dairy cows In the Campbelltown district, 21 cows were recently affected with grass tetany (mineral Imbalance)…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Of Interest to Local Farmers New Competitions
At a recent meeting of the Northern Agricultural Association, the President, Mr. King Warburton, announced…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Increase in Australia
CANBERRA, Thursday.—Figures issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Roland Wilson) show that on March at last there were…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pensions For Dutch Farm Workers
The Dutch Parliament has passed legislation as a result of which agricultural workers in Holland now receive, at the age…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle For, Kempsey
SINGLETON. Friday.—The Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council at Singleton last night decided to Join with the Northern Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Profits
Th Commonwealth Treasurer had approved the dispersal of £25,000,000 to wool growers from profits made on sales by Joint Organisation. The…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Willow Tree Wool
Sales conducted by the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. on the 1st. inst., when 7894 bales were offered, included gsy AAE, a/c…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Increase in Butter Price
The Minister for Price Control (Mr. Finnan) told the Legislative Assembly that so far there would be no increase in the price of butter to the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Stranded Sheep Fed From Air
SYDNEY, Friday. — Starving sheep stranded to flooded areas west of Moree are being fed from the air…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Season’s Wool
Wool sold in Australia in July and August, the first months of the 1949-50 season, totalled 64,737 bales, and was valued at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Price of Wool Dropping
Wool prices fell in Sydney and Melbourne yesterday. In Melbourne, finer types of Merino were 7.1/2% to 10% lower…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Diseases Among District Sheep. Inspector's Report to P.p. Board
A district farmer lost over 400 sheep from worm infestation, toxaemia of pregnancy and black leg fever, Denman-Singleton Pastures Protection…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Land-- States' Spending Dairying Grant
"It is not a fact that the Coomonwealth Government's grant of £250,[?] a year for live years to promote greater efficiency in the dairying industry…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Aid for Flooded-out Farmers
Financial grants to flooded out owner farmers who were consider ed to be outside the scope of the Government's financial aid plans…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cropped Up Again
Singleton's old trouble, the location of the gas main under John-street cropped up again last night following a meeting…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Like Rats Leaving One Sinking Ship For Another Farms Washed Away in Raging Flood Singleton M.Z.D.C. Will Help Macleay Re-stocking
"Like rats going from one sinking ship to another, people jumped from roof-top to root-top, as their homes were washed away by raging 25 mileper hour Macleay River floodwaters, amid a howling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Roaming Cattle
Cattle are starting to roam the streets again and are controlled by a few owners that should know it is easy to kill the goose that lays the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory Annual Meeting
There was a very large attendance of shareholders at the annual general meeting of Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory Co. Ltd., hold at the…
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