More Money Sought for Roads Farmers' Costs Swollen
The N.S.W. Government was strongly urged yesterday to grant to country councils much greater sums for…
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Farming & the land, 1955
370 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 19
Record Year. For Processed Wool Exports
The Bradford Conditioning House, which issues certificates of moisture content, etc., on processed wool for trade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →News for the Man on the Land No Sound Basis For Wool Price Concern
Hunter district graziers and agents laid yesterday recent wool prices had justified the increased confidence in wool values. They said there appeared to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Drop in Wool Receipts
SYDNEY: The 1954-55 Australian wool cheque is expected to be about £40,000,000 below the £382,000,000 of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Police Use Tear Gas On Farmers
LILLE: Police used tear gas bombs against a crowd of 10,000 farmers demonstrating against the Government’s…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →More Wheat Sold Overseas
MELBOURNE: Australia was selling nearly twice as much wheat overseas as at this time last year, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →This Week in Wool
World demand for wool, particularly for 60's down, is widening. This week at Sydney, Perth and Geelong…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Darling Harbour and Its Wonders with Wool
Darling Harbour Railway Goods Yard, very literally, the hub of New South Wales commerce. Radiating from it on one side are the network of railroads over which pour into Darling Harbour the wealth of our primary products and the raw…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →emical Harvesting For Seed Lucerne Crop
Chemicals may be used to facilitate the har[?]sting of lucerne seed this season, officers of [?] Department of Agriculture's Division of ant Industry reveal…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Crown Land Farmlets at Cassilis Open for Application
Two Crown land farmlets near Cassilis will be thrown open for application by the Department of Lands late in February. The Minister for Lands,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →All Crops Showing Benefit Of Rain, Says District Agronomist
Overall conditions in the Hunter Valley improved rapidly following good fells of ram during the third week in January, states the district agronomist (Mr. F. D. Mackenzie)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmers’ Record Entry
Record entries have been received in the “Mercury” shield competition for junior farmers, Maitland show…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairymen Entitled To Fair Price
The chairman of the NSW Milk Board (Mr. J. A. Ferguson) said is reply to a statement published in Sydney and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sheep And The Goats
THERE is always danger that men and women, swayed by emotions, influenced by propaganda, will judge big issues by rough-and-ready labels rather than by great principles. It is all to easy to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →To-day’s Leader The Sheep And The Goats Royal Commission : Witness Suspected Reds Had Knowledge Of Dept. Affairs
SYDNEY: A farmer Government employee, Clarence William Dekin, said to-day he never had formed the suspicion that Communists intended to pla[?] him in the Department of External Affairs…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prospects For State Millet Crops
Production of [?] millet last season (1953-54) totalled approximately [?] of fibre from about 2200 acres…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer’s Utility Killed Grandson
A two-years-old boy was killed on his grandfather’s farm at Miller’s Forest yesterday morning when a utility…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report
Our catalogue of 8,642 bales was submitted on Thursday, banuary 27. The selection included a number…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Artificial Breeding of Cattle
SYDNEY: A great reduction in the number of bulls required for breeding would follow the more general use of frozen…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Victoria’s Wheat Yield
MELBOURNE: Victoria’s wheat yield this season should reach 46 [?] bushels, the Victorian Minister for…
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