Wool Values Up
SYDNEY, Monday.—Wool values improved 5 to 7½ per cent, at today's wool sales. The auctions were reopened…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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Applications For Butter Price Rise
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The conference of prices ministers in Melbourne on Friday will consider an application by the Australian Dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ceylon to Receive More Wheat
LONDON, Nov. 8.—An Increase in the guaranteed quantity of [?] heat for Ceylon from 80,000 tons to 120,000 tons, has been…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sound Wool Position: Larger Sales
Wool has never been more soundly placed in Doth supply and demand, says the weekly wool letter of Winchcombe,…
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SYDNEY, Monday.—The General Secretary of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales (Mr. S. Ick.Hewins), today…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lifting of Wheat Calls For All-Out Effort
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—If the bumper wheat crop of New South Wales, totalling 75,000,000 bushels, is to be taken from the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Guaranteed" Butter Price a Myth Producers Misled by Their Own Leaders
The oft-repeated assertion made by the Dairying Industry leaders in both Victoria and New South Wales is to the effect that the producers have been guaranteed the cost of production based on the findings of the Joint…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rabbits Cleaning Up Bean Crops
Mr. E. A. Lucas, Maitland Pa[?]tures Protection Board stock inspector, told board directors this afternoon that rabbits were damaging crops…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Letter To The Editor Feeding Dairy Cattle
Sir,—Some weeks ago in the “Mercury” Candid Comment column a request was made that the Hunter Valley Co-op. Dairy Co…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Trucks for Macleay Cattle Ready on
Mr. H. Troman, Secretary and Treasurer of the Macleay River Stock Lossrs' Committee received a telegram today from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Stock Inspector's Report 720 Sheep Placed in Quarantine
The Denman-Singleton Pastures Protection, Board Stock Inspector (Mr. S. Phillips) yesterday said there had…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairymen Robbed Sweet Cream Position Exposed
Dr. J. J. G. McGirr, endorsed Country Party candidate, addressing a large meeting of his supporters amongst the dairymen revealed expert knowledge of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Breeding and Feeding of Dairy Cattle
The district dairy officer (Mr, J. W. G. Smith), in an address to Gresford Agricultural Bureau on dairying, emphasised the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →High Load of Wool
Because be found 124 bales of wool were awaiting transport on two lorries, and not 115, as he had been informed, William E…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle For Macleay Must Be In Singleton By
All cattle donated and promised in the Singleton district for the relief of Macleay river farmers must be delivered to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Found Dead Last Night In Farm Shed
Lionel David Ellicoft. 63, of Great Northern road, Rutherford, was found dead early last night in a shed on a property on which he was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Unusual Frosting of Wheat Crops
Unusual effects from frost injury on wheat growing in the Tamworth district were seen recently by a plant pathologist of the Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer’s Death
Lionel David Ellicott, who was found dead on a property on Glenarbon-road, Mtd-Lorn, did not live, on the property but at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Kempsey Farmers Helped By Milk Zone Suppliers
Suppliers to the Milk Board had been most generous in their assistance to Macleay River dairymen after the recent flood…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cattle Unaltered At Homebush
Pitt, Son and Badgery’s report. —45,920 sheep and Iambs. Prime lambs firm, other grades weaker. Sheep 1/ to 3/ lower…
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