Three Hurt in Overturned Wool Truck
NEWCASTLE, Wednesday.—A semi trailer loaded with bales of wool overturned, injuring two…
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Farming & the land, 1950
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South Africa’s High Wool Returns
PORT ELIZABETH, Sept 6.— A new record wool price for Port Elizabeth was set yesterday when 10 bales of merino…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Singletonian Sees Record Sheep Sale 108 Wethers Bring £1645
Mr. Fred Hannam, of Castlereagh Street, was present at Flemington saleyards on Monday when the Australian record…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday.— Wool is not included in the list of strategic or critical materials which the United States…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Farmers’ Losses From Flood
The secretary of the Milk Zone Dairymen’s Council (Mr. L. C. Turton) reported to a meeting of the executive committee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Film Star Farmer
Jean Kent is one of the most talented of young British film stars and in the BBC's "In Town Tonight' programme she spoke not so much about…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →W. G. Russell, "Old Farm," Mt. Thorley, Singleton
A trial including main crop hybrid varieties and using Fitzroy as on open pollinated check variety was sowed on the 21st November and harvested…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Science School At Hexham
A dairy science school is being held this week by the Division of Dairying, Department of Agriculture, at the Hunter River Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Share Farmer Is Cleared Singleton Dispute
Members of an arbitration committee established under the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1941, could not agree with Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Unchanged, Sheep Cheaper
Winchcombe, Carson’s report. —27,174 sheep of mixed quality penned. Woolly wethers 10/ to 20/ lower. Woolly lambs and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Sheep To The Acre On Tasmanian Farm
Mr. C. H. Brown, of “Glen Air,” North Scottsdale, who won the Tasmanian championship for fodder conservation and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Gaol Term for Cattle Theft
ARMIDALE, Thurs. — Samuel Oliver Wild, 35, farmer, of Walcha, was sentenced to two years’ hard labour for cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →New Guinea Jute for Wool Packs
Mr. R. A. Colyer, a Rabaul businessman, stated in America that it should be only a matter of a few years before New Guinea…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Potato Planting Has Recommenced August Rain Further Delayed Farming
Heavy rain late in August- caused further delay in forming operations in the Hunter Volley, particularly in the planting of potatoes. However, states the district agronomist (Mr. F. D…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farms Still Out of Production
In his report on conditions during August, the district dairy officer (Mr. E. G. McLaren) says that, generally, they could not be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Scone Stock Market Sheep and Cattle Sale
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, Scone, report a good attendance of buyers at their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Sowings Down
This season’s area [?]own to wheat in New South Wales will be 400,000 acres less than last year, according to an es[?]mate…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Die From Arsenic Poisoning
DUBBO, Friday. — Four hundred ewes died after eating arsenic from a discarded poison tin last week…
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Total area sown to wheat in New South Wales will, probably be £3,400,000 acres, as compared with 4,206,000 acres in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Price Climb "Shocking"
With a growing world-wide demand for wool and the supply dropping, a rise in prices on the Australian market had been…
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