The Challenge of To-day to Junior Farmers
Just prior to Xmas the winners were announced of the Rural Bank Scholarships for junior farmers for an essay on…
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Farming & the land, 1950
286 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 1 of 15
Special Butter Coupons Still Valid
MELBOURNE, Monday. — All special butter coupons, such as those issued in 1949 for diabetics, pre-natal cases, and for other…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Move To Amalgamate Dairymen's Council And Producers Union
At a meeting of the Illawarra District Council of the Primary Producers' Union the question of the co-ordination of the P.P.U. Milk Sectional Committee and the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council…
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One uniform retail price for milk to the consumer over the whole year was espoused at a meeting of the Albion Park Milk Zone Dairymen's Council. The council contended when price…
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Following on the succession of "black" days in the milk trade, a large attendance of milk suppliers, at a special meeting convened by the Illawarra Co-operative Central Dairy Co., Albion Park,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Challenge of Today to Junior Farmers
Last Thursday we published the winning essay for boys in the Rural Bank Junior Farmers' competition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Great Interest in Dairy Cattle Section For Albion park Show
News, this week, that the Dudgeon A.I.S. team would not be competing at the Albion Park Show on Friday, was responsible for stirring up the greatest interest for years in the dairy cattle…
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Entries for the Dapto Show to date are the heaviest ever received. The first big rush of entries is in the horse section. A…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Easter Show Cattle
All dairy and beef cattle entries for the next Sydney Royal Show on April, 1 to 12 must be in by February 13 next. The Society expects a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Cabinet Committee Deliberating On Tea and Butter Rationing
SYDNEY, Monday.—The Federal Treasurer (Mr. A. W. Fadden) said to-day the Treasury had not been approached to deal with the financial aspects of the lifting of rationing, of butter and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Prices Skyrocket
SYDNEY, Tuesday. — Wool sales today still strongly tended in the sellers' favour and prices in some instances showed a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Junior Farmers' District Exhibit
The first inter-club district exhibit competition for Junior Farmers' at Dapto Show has created remarkable interest. In view of the…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Wool values reached unprecedented heights today when the Sydney market for all good fierce and…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. J. McEwen) today assured a deputation from Australia-wide…
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DURBAN, Friday (A.A.P.).—A French buyer yesterday paid 90d. lb., highest price this season, for 15 bales of top line…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Judges' Awards At Dapto Show Junior Farmers Were Strong Exhibitors
Members of the Junior Farmers' Club were strong exhibitors at the Dapto Show, both in cattle and in the pavilion. Tho three Junior Farmers'…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →First of a Series on Rural Topics U.S. moves towards fuller scientific farming United States Secretary of Agriculture
Farming in the United States continues to undergo important changes. The trend toward mechanization that developed rapidly after the war, remains in full swing. Fertilizer, and chemicals…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Royal Show Cattle T.B. and C.A.B. Conditions to Apply
All cattle exhibits at the Royal Easter Show, from April 1 to 12 this year, must be certified free of T.B. and C. A. B. by an approved…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Wonders American scientists are modifying some of nature's oldest processes in order to produce better crops
HAVE you ever seen a watermelon as round as a bowling ball and about the same size? If you were an onion farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat for Canberra
THE WHEAT HARVEST in the A.C.T. is almost completed. This stack of 16,000 bags is to be retained at Canberra Railway Station to meet needs of Canberra consumption during the year. Previously wheat produced in the A.C.T. has been sent to the rail terminus at Sydney, thereby necessitating double handling of wheat for Canberra and district needs…
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