The Week in the Store Cattle Market
With no auctions listed during the week, the store cattle market made no recovery from the state of slackness…
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Farming & the land, 1953
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Field Day on Vacy Farm
The district dairy officer (Mr. [?] G. MacLa[?] states that it is proposed to hold a field day on the dairy grant…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Graziers Say Sheep Being Stolen
SINGLETON: Singleton police to-day began investigation into allegations by 10 local greasers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floodwaters on Farmlands Again Greek Overflow Swamping Crops
Many famers in the Louth park and Dagworth areas of Maitland are again in the thick of flood troubkes More than 200 acres of farmland, sown to fodder…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Blind Girl Runs Profitable Farm
Although, blind, Alice Haines single handedly operates a model 45-acre farm in Virginia. Her story…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →State Junior Farmer Championship To Muswellbrook Margaret Carter end Janice Slade Successful
In the 1953 State championships competitions for Home Science, Needlework Division, conducted by the Junior Farmers Clubs' Council for N.S.W., Margaret Carter and Janice Slade were prize…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Young Farmers Plan For Joint Show
Morlaset : Junior farmer club is making a move to stage a joint Junior farmer and adult show It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Exchange
NEWCASTLE: Conversion of building at the comer of king and Brown Streets. Newcastle, to cost £36,0001…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Vegetables Rot on Farms"
Pumpkins and grammas are being allowed to rot on farms at Phoenix Park, near Morpeth, because, farmers say, it…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmers Want Govt. Aid
The Government is being urged by the Central Hunter District Council of the Junior Farmer Movement to grant…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →M.z.d.c. Urges Cottages for Farm Workers
A request will be made to the Minister for Housing (Mr. C. Evatt) to consider a scheme for erection of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmer’s Hand Gut On Hayknife
Leslie Lewis Road 55, farmer of Glena[?] Mid[?] yesterday [?] his [?]elbow on a hay[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Advisory Committee For Junior Farmers
SINGLETON: The advisory committee of the Singleton junior farmers will seek additional advisers to cope with an “embarrassing” membership. They are needed to instruct…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wide representation on Junior Farmers' Advisory Committee
On Monday night a meeting was held at the Singleton High School with the object of re-forming the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairymen Review Work of Year Present Price Puts industry on sound footing
Interest in the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was evidenced by the record attendance in Sydney at the annual meeting of the Council and the meeting of the Committee of Management. Singleton branch was represented by Messrs Gordon Roberts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bob's Farm Girl Attends Home-maker School
Miss Eve Robinson, of Bob's Farm-Anna Bay Junior Farmers' Club has returned from a Homemakers' School…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →School Has Its Own Farm
Many London schoolchildren are given lessons about farming and country life, but it is most unusual to find a school…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Slow Milking Cows Loss To Dairymen
If the differences in milking times are compared over the year, it will be found that a slow-milking cow may cost the dairy farmer at much as 70 hours longer than a fast milker…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local Cattle
Local cattle from Singleton Included in Winchcombe Carson't Homebush auction last Thursday realised: A/c A…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Cattle 20/- to 30/- cheaper
In a yarding of 2376 cattle at Homebush on Thursday, cow beef was in over-supply and values fell 20/ to 30/…
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