Newcastle Wool Sales
At Newcastle, the A.M.L. & F. Co., Ltd., offered on Wednesday, 28th January, a catalogue of 3155 bales, comprising clips…
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Farming & the land, 1953
1,713 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 86
Australia Can Supply Wheat Quota
NEW YORK: The International Wheat Council announced that Australia’s improved harvest will enable…
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HOBART: The season’s Australian record for fleece wool wm broken at the wool sales at Hobart yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beetles Destroy Maize Crop
CASINO: A plague of brown beetles is destroying hundreds of acres of maize in the Casino district…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Price
CANBERRA: Home consumption prices of wheat would not necessary be [?] by any increases in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wealth From Wool Wax
The C.S.I.R.G. Division of Industrial Chemistry reports a major advance in chemical techniques for producing wool wax acids and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Does Milk Pay Dairymen Better Than Cream?
If the question “Does milk pay better than cream?" were put to one hundred farmers in this district the answer would…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Harvesting Of Potato Crops Nearing End
Following rain at the end of December and the beginning of January the put month has been favourable for almost all farmers, states the district agronomist (Mr: F. D. Mackenzie)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Muswellbrook Cattle Sale
Edward Higgens, Parkinson and Co. report a very successful sale in the Muswellbrook yards yesterday, when they yarded 200…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Report
The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain Insurance and Agency Company, Limited, report 3rd…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prime cattle firmplain cheaper
All prime descriptions again met good competition at Homebush on Thursday, with values showing little…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Wool Sales
World demand for Northern wool intensified at Newcastle last week, when values rose 5% to 7½% above closing Sydney rates Dalgety's sold top lines of 3 clips at 200d. Illustrations—top left—Messrs. D. N. & J. N. Fleteher…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Inspection of Registered Corriedale Sheep
The triennial inspection of registered Corriedale sheep will be continued in New South Wales. The decision was made…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The week in wool
Wider competition from Britain, Italy, Germany, and Japan, and the first really concentrated buying by U.S.A., restored stability to the wool market in its most crucial week…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Variations Use of Other Fibres
Winchcombe, Carson's weekly wool letter, dated 3rd inst., states:- The current wool season has…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Fellowship, Loyalty Strong in Cattle Men of the Outback
A cattle-droving trip from Central Queensland to Dolby, in the south-west, was the subject chosen by the stock inspector (Mr. A. T. Ellis) for his address to Maitland Rotary Club…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →12 Months Jail for Man Who Stole Cattle in Singleton
A man, who was convicted of cattle stealing in Singleton in April, 1950, was sentenced to 12…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Showstroms and Blizards Follow Disaster One-teeth of Holland's Farm Lands Flooded LONDON
Even before the floods which have just ravaged Europe's Low Countries have completely subsided, snowstorms and blizzards are now sweeping across many parts of the Continent, leaving a white chaos…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Tomatoes, Cucumbers Lost Crop Left to Rot
Because of the glut In the supply of tomatoes and cucumbers a local farmer finds that he must allow his…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Tragedy of Junior Farmers Land Wanted for Young Farmers
A major problem for Junior Farmers' Clubs is that of placing trained junior farmers on the land, states J.F.C. Hunter River…
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