Is Irrigation the Answer To Low Dairy Production
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1951 · page 3
Apart from fluctuations in the production incidental to seasonal influences, average production per cow has shown virtually no improvement in New South Wales in the last thirty years, states a recent editorial in the “Agricultural…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 3
A much lighter yarding of 700 fat cattle was on offer at Maitland land saleyards to-day. The majority of the yarding…
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Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 3
Winchcombe, Carson’s report. 15,079 sheep or mixed Quality. Market 5/ dearer. Best ewes to Sid, wethers lid, hoggets Ltd,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Judges’ Praise for Dairy Cattle at Gloucester Young Stock Showed Quality Ana Promise
Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 4
Judges of the dairy cattle at the 38th annual Gloucester show highly praised the quality of the animals displayed. Entries were beyond the expectations of the committee and cattle accommodation was so heavily taxed that many…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Co-op., Grain, Insurance and Agency Company Limited 6th March, 1951
Singleton Argus · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 4
We submitted our catalogue of 4071 bales on Monday, 5th instant. The selection, which for the most part comprised good…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Horses -Are Fast Going Out
Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 March 1951 · page 2
With the day of work horses apparently near getting, it was not surprising to learn from Mr. J. E. Morcom, when he visited…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Judging By Junior Farmers
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 4
For the First time the Cessnock Show Council this year included in its schedule a cattle jadping contest for Junior farmers,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Exhibits at Muswellbrook Show
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 1
TOP.—Bruce Dawson, leading the Gulf Cattle Company's "Red Radiance," which won in the class for Shorthorn cows under 12…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Former Cattle Judging at Cessnock Show
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 March 1951 · page 6
MR. CECIL SLASH and son Jack have been good friends to Millfield Junior Farmers and during three days of last week…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Record Dairy Cattle at Gloucester Show
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 2
Gloucester Agricultural, Horticultural and Pastoral Association's 38th Annual Show, held last Friday and Saturday, was an outstanding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Remarkable Cattle Averages
The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 4
The Australian, Mercantile, Land & Finance Co., Ltd., in topping the list of cattle sales at Flemington for the month of February,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fibre Board Butter Boxes
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 2
The Standards Association of Australia announces the Issue for public critical review and comment of a draft Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Wool Position
The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 4
United States will Determine Future Wool Values: With wool moving sale by sale to higher average prices, the trade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep Stealing On The Border
The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 5
Graziers in the Yelarbon- Goondiwindi area believe an organised gang is conducting large scale sheep stealing…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Livestock Review Young Sheep Prices Are Rising
The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 4
Buyers bid freely for quality lots of young sheep at auctions last week. Indications point to higher values as shearing approaches and new records are expected…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World of Farming Getting Safely Through Autumn -Critical Period for Calves
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 14 March 1951 · page 3
AUTUMN is a critical period for calves. Deaths during winter can be eliminated by rotating…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Payment for Milk on a Butter Fat Basis
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 1
Raymond Terrace Branch of the P. P. U. sponsored a move to have all milk paid fop on a butter fat basis, but apparently the idea, is not…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Has No Peer No Substitute Yet Found
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 8
Soaring prices of both wool and cotton have provided the awaited incentive for international chemical manufacturers such as Du Pont of U.S:A., Imperial Chemical Industries of Britain, the Vereinigte Glanzstoff Fabriken and I…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Harvesters On British Farms
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 8
Combine harvesters were used to crop about half the British farms growing wheat and barley last year…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Preparing Land For Late Winter Crops
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1951 · page 6
The past week has been very fort, real summer weather having been experienced but this is very ben[?] for most farmers who…
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