Field Day for Junior Farmers
The cattle judging competition at the Dungog combined second annual Junior Farmers field day will be held on…
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Farming & the land, 1952
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Big Reductions in Meat Prices Drop In Cattle Market Passed On To Public
Maitland butchers have made substantial reductions in the price of beef. Some cuts of lamb and mutton have also been eased. A drop in the cattle market was the reason given…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Star Junior Farmer Competion
Regional section of the 1952 Star Junior farmer competition [?] by the Rural Bank of New South Wales [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers’ Claims for Flood Relief
Share and tenant farmers who have suffered as the result of recent floods and are desirous of lodging a claim for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers’ Overseas Tour
Two Junior farmers who have recently returned from overseas will visit the district shortly to address junior…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report
This week wool auctions in Australia were conducted in three centres-Sydney, Melbourne and Perth, where collective reports indicate a very firm and buoyant market…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Compensation Act Explained
The Cattle Compensation Act, which came into force on September 1, has been principally designed to encourage the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report—(cont.)
Country Producers' Selling Sales date has been set down for Tuesday, 30th September, when an offering of approximately 4,800…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Large-scale Thefts of Cattle
Newcastle and Cessnock police have recovered 150 head of cattle in rugged bush country during investigations into…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Beef Cattle Champions at Melbourne Royal
Beef cattle classes were keenly contested at Melbourne Royal Show this week, with Shorthorns, Herefords, Poll Herefords, and Aberdeen-Angus in particularly strong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Singleton Accounts At Wool Sales
Merino wool prices advanced 2½ per cent, on Monday's closing rates when Dalgety's opened the new selling…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance & Agency Co., Ltd. 23rd Sept., 1952
We submitted our second catalogue of the current season on Monday, 22nd September. The offering, totalling 8,727 bales, was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Price Stabilisation Scheme For Wool South African Producers Appeal To Australia
SYDNEY: South African wool produces won Australia to reconsider its decision on stabilised won prices. This was stated by J.H. Mormon, chairman of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Grant Progress Demonstrations Now Total 121
"At the present time there are 121 demonstrations of improved farming practices being carried out under the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →District Dairymen Averaged £2452 in 1951-52 Production Increase of Over 287,603 Gallons
Figures quoted by a member of the N.S.W. Milk Board at Muswellbrook, this week, showed that 348 dairy farmers supplying milk at the Muswellbrook factory received £853,217 for the year ended June 30th, 1952, of an average…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farms on Lower Hunter Never in Worse Condition 90 Per Cent. Of Flooded Area Is Out Of Production
Lower Hunter farms have never been in a worse position following flood than is the ease at the present time. A surrey of the area to-day disclosed that at least 90 per cent of rich agricultural land it at present out of production with prospects for the future grim…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Paterson Junior Farmers
A meeting of the Paterson and District Junior Farmers' club decided that at each future meeting two members…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Sales at Newcastle
On Wednesday, 22nd October, Pitt Son & Badgery Ltd., Newcastle, offered at auction a catalogue of approximately…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →U.S. Wool Buyers Protest Against Quotas New York
—Two prominent officials of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers have written to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wastage in Dairy Stock Sterility Greatest Cause, Says Mr. Graham
"Sterility is the cause of what is probably the greatest wastage of stock in the dairy industry," said the Minister…
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