Rain Brings Relief To District Farmers
Steady rain to-day brought relief to many farmers and considerably lowered the bushfire danger, which had reached a pack during the excessive heat on Wednesday…
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Farming & the land, 1955
370 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 19
Cattle in Board’s Area
GLOUCESTER: The Secretary of the Gloucester Pastures Protection Board said the cattle population of Gloucester…
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Not outstanding quality, cattle were among the 900 yarded at Campbell’s Hill today and the quality was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day’s Leader If Only Farmers Believe Rain Has Ensured Good Crops For The Autumn
District farmers expect on excellent response from crops following the steady rain that fell in Maitland during the week-end. They welcomed the rain, which brought relief to…
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DENMAN: Lucerne crops have been sprayed from an aeroplane at Baerami Creek to cope with the shield hug and…
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"The most valuable material for maintaining soil fertility on the dairy farm is unquestionably farmyard manure," advises the division of plant industry, Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DAIRY Co. Executive Returns Keen Competition in East
Mr. J. H. Scarry of the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., Hexham, who has returned' from a vigit to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers: Only One Per Cent. School Children Studying Agriculture
Many thousands of children in country schools are studying ancient history and only one per cent are studying agriculture, which will be the mainstay of their lives, Mr. F. McTackett, of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Abattoir Will Not Meat Meal Direct To Poultry Farmers
Maitland City Council’s abattoir committee last night reaffirmed its decision not to supply meat meal direct to poultry farmers in the Maitland district. It did this after receiving a letter from Mr. S…
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WASHINGTON: The United States Agriculture Department yesterday rejected all tenders for the export sale of…
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Australia’s earnings from ports of wool amounted to £160,500,000 in the six months ended December 31, £65,500,000…
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Substantial increases in all branches of dairy production have been reported during the first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Tb-day’s Leader The Junior Farmers Australia Devoted to Ideal
KARACHI: Pakistan’s Finance Minister (Chaumri Mohammad Ali) said yesterday that no country was more…
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THE Junior Farmer movement is worthy of strong support from citizens generally. Clubs require suitable persons of varying experience to serve on the Advisory Committees, without which the work…
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Highlight of the week's wool trading was the wider competition for a wider range of wools by Continental and U.K. mills at Newcastle and Melbourne…
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SYDNEY: The largest shipment of cattle, ever to come to Australia — 75 head, worth about £125,000—will arrive on…
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WASHINGTON: The Eisenhower administration’s programme for selling farm surpluses overseas was running into a bottleneck because of a “ship American” provision in the Surplus Disposal Act,…
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A lighter supply of about 3[?]50 fat cattle at the Campbell’s Hill saleyards to-day, with bullocks and steers in…
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Dalgety's closed its Sydney series of wool sales on Thursday with values still hardening. They are now at…
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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report:— After a week's break wool…
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