World Has More Sheep, Says U.S. Report
Maitland Mercury · Monday 26 April 1954 · page 1
WASHINGTON: World sheep numbers continued to increase in 1953 for the sixth consecutive year, the U.S. Agriculture Department reported yesterday. A new record of about 841,100,000 head was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Values Easier For Cattle
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 3
A heavier supply of about 1200 tat cattle, bullocks and steers being moderately represented with no heavyweight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Wool Price Fall
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 3
MELBOURNE: Russia’s ban on Australian wool has not meant a fall in prices. At the opening of the new…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Ointment To Treat Pink Eye In Cattle
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 6
Ophthalmic or “Pink Eye” of cattle is generically seen in its most severe form during the lots summer or autumn, and is highly contagious to both dairy end beef cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Russians’ Stand On Wool Sales
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 4
LONDON: Bradford wool circles regard Russia’s suspension of Australian wool purchases as unimportant at this…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Russia’s Position for Wool
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 1
LONDON: Russia’s decision to abstain temporarily from further purchase of Australian wool seems unlikely to prove a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Selling Season In Final Stages
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 4
Wool auctions, which will be resumed in Brisbane and Melbourne this week, bring the 1953-54 Australian wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Oil Development In Australia And Farming
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 2
Since the end of the war mechanisation of Australian agriculture has gone ahead so rapidly that the once familiar sigh of hose teams ploughing has practically disappeared…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Information Free to Farmers
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 27 April 1954 · page 6
Free copies of the following new of reprised publication issued by the Deportment of Agriculture may be…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Show Prospects Good Dairy Cattle and Poultry at Top
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 1
Entries for Dungog Show which will be held on Friday and Saturday are coming in satisfactorily. There will be a record in the poultry section and in the dairy classes excellent entries…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Grand Display of Dairy Cattle at Stroud Show Best in History of Society
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 2
Officials said at Stroud's 29th Annual Show last Saturday that the Dairy Cattle display was the best in the history of the Association, and it was proof of the increased interest being taken…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmer Movement Must Be Encouraged Agricultural College Needed in Hunter, Says Newcastle Show Leader
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 28 April 1954 · page 1
"I am very pleased with the display by the Junior Farmers," said Mr. F. W. Cane, President of Newcastle A.H.& I. Society, when performing the ceremony of officially opening Stroud's 29th…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No New Dairy Registrations
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 1
There will be no additional registrations of dairies, under the Milk Act…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Zone Dairymen's Council
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 29 April 1954 · page 6
The annual meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was held yesterday, and at it, Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Week in Wool
The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 3
With the wool display floors refilling for the few remaining series of sales for this season, demand for wool is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Increased Storage For Bulk Wheat
Maitland Mercury · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 5
The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production (Mr. E. H. Graham) announced biff extensions to the bolt wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Thieves Jailed by Dubbo Court
The Scone Advocate · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 8
Two men were sentenced at last Dubbo Police Court—one to two years and the other to six months—for wool stealing. A 36-year-old Wellington…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Subdivision Important Factor In Dairying
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 4
Subdivision is one of the most important factors in effective grassland management, points out the Division of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture. Dairy cattle changed at least…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Points Close In Junior Farmer Shield
Maitland Mercury · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 3
DUNGOG: The district exhibit for which five junior, farmer dobs entered, was one of the closest contests on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.Z. visitor likes aerial farming
Singleton Argus · Friday 30 April 1954 · page 4
A member of the New Zealand Young Fanners' Movement yesterday expressed surprise that planes were not…
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