The week in wool
Steadily balanced at longest level of stability in its auction history, the week's wool market continued its even tenor at Newcastle, Goulburn, and Melbourne, with, as the only…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1953
1,713 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 75 of 86
Winchcombe Carson wool sales
Winchcombe, Carson sold 8300 bales at auction and privately at their Sydney auction yesterday. There was…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Stabilisation Mr. Nott's Views
A new plan for wheat industry stabilisation must be prepared during the next two years, Mr. Roger Nott, M.L.A. for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. Nott on Marketing of Wheat
A new plan for wheat industry stabilisation must be prepared during the next two years, Mr. Roger Nott, M.L.A. for Liverpool Plains, said when speaking in the Legislative…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →13 Soldier Farms Available in West
Over four hundred thousand acres of Western Division grazing land will be thrown open in thirteen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers Are Happy
Happy and succesfull The four top place-getters in the “Star” Junior Former Competition for 1953 sponsored by the Rural Bank. Left to right: Neil Summerlad, Woodenbong : Lois Brown, Raymond Terrace; Don Pollock, Quandialla (“Star” Junior Farmer of N.S.W.); William Fatheringham,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hoppers threatening dairying industry in Valley
Huge swarms of plague locusts, some of which are already on the wing, are threatening to eat out the finest dairying country in the Hunter Valley. Farmers, while doing their best, are waging a losing battle against…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →WILLIAM McILRATH Fellowship Award for Beef Cattle Research
C.S.I.R.O. has decided to apply a gift of £50,000 from Mr. William McIlrath to found the William McIlrath…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →To Resume Land for Farming
The Municipal Council at Port Macquarie has decided to resume about 1,000 acres on the edge of the municipality…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →University Students Seek Farm Work
Students from the University of Sydney, Faculty of Agriculture, are seeking farm employment to cover their…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cattle Firm At Homebush
Pitt, Son and Badgery’s report:— Sheep: 35,661 penned. Best sheep and lambs 5/ dearer,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Bidding Is An Art At Cattle Saleyards
A few weeks age one of the Hunter VoIley’s best-known auctioneers, Mr. Jock Enright, retired after on association with the livestock trade of more than 50 years…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Grant Field Organiser
Mr. R. A. [?] of Paterson has been appointed dairy grant field organiser, after two and a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fat Cattle Values Down £1
A lighter supply of about 700 fat cattle. The quality was not up to the standard of recent yardings as a big proportion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →£250 for Junior Farmer Movement
President of the Rural Bank Mr. C. R. McKerihan, has presented the Junior Farmer movement with a cheque for…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Finalists in the "Star" Junior Farmer Competition
Happy and satisfied. The four place-getters in the "Star" Junior Farmer Competition for 1953 sponsored by the Rural Bank. Left to right: Neil Sommerlad, Woodenbong; Lois Brown…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers May Not Turn Tide on Grasshoppers Spray Is Short And Troops Have Not Yet Arrived. (Staff Reporter)
Shortage of emulsion spray and the non-arrival of troops to assist in the campaign against grasshoppers are almost certain to prevent farmers turning the tide on die area’s worst wave of grasshoppers for 23 years…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Report
Our catalogue of over 9000 bales was submitted on Wednesday, 28th October. It was drawn from a wide area including the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Industries Research
Scottish tartans, worn and admired alt over the world, are one of the best-known products of Scottish craftsmanship. Less well known is the work of the Scottish Wool Industries Research…
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