Cabinet Withdraws Wool Export Tax Scheme
CANBERRA, Tuesday,—The Federal Cabinet today decided to withdraw the 30 per cent, wool export tax from the Federal Budget and replace it, with a system of…
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Farming & the land, 1950
286 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 13 of 15
Cattle Authority To Join J. N. King's Staff
A noted stud dairy expert, Mr. Frank Owen Sims, H.D.A., has resigned his position as superintendent of the Berry Training…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Well-Known Wollongong Firm Had Its Start With A Box Of Butter W. WATERS & Sons' Diamond Jubilee
IN the year 1890 a young man sank all his savings in the purchase of a horse borrowed a cart, went out on the rounds and sold a box of butter and a side of bacon. He thus started what is to-day, one of the Illawarra District's most thriving and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Berry Training Farm Superintendent Resigns To Join Firm
A NOTED stud and dairy expert, Mr Frank Owen Sims, H.D.A. has resigned his position as Superintendent of the Berry Training Farm and School of Husbandry to inaugurate and manage the Stud(Dairy) Stock Department of J. N. King and Sons…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Features for The Man on the Land Junior Farmers' Field Day at Jamberoo 'Well Up to Standard' Says Judge
Judging by junior farmers—both boys and girls—was well up to standard at the Illawarra District Junior Farmers'…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →New Aid for Dairy Farmers Big Improvement in Treating Mastitis in Dairy Cows
Within recent times the treatment of Bovine Mastitis has taken tremendous strides. First the use of Sulpha Drugs, then came Penicillin…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Farmers Milk Co. Annual Meeting
The 50th Annual Meeting of the Dairy Farmers Milk Co. was held at the Head Office, Ultimo, on Friday last. The Chairman of Directors…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Substantial increases in cheese and butter production were disclosed in the annual report of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Features for The Man on the Land Farmers "Take the Gloves Off" Association Formed to Prevent Interference With Primary Industry
AN "all-in" fight against further political and bureaucratic interference with primary industry is the objective of an organisation, the United Farmers Association, which has been formed in New South Wales. The association intends to concentrate on this one aim and…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Coast Accident Orphans Plan To Be Farmers
SYDNEY, Friday. — Four orphaned brothers, whose father, mother and sister were killed in a motor accident on…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Features for The Man on the Land Government Owned Aberdeen Angus Cattle To Be Sold
The Minister for Agriculture announced last week that the decision to sell by auction at Trangie on Nov. 15, 100…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Butter Creates Problem For Migrants' Party
New Australians who are planning a gala "International party" for the citizens of Greater Wollongong on Tuesday night have…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Australian Wheat Will Find Big Demand
Mr. J. S. Teasdale, chairman of the Australian Wheat Board said recently that overseas demand for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Agtinobacillosis Disease of Cattle
Actinobacillosis is a soft tissue disease occurring in the udder, lungs, tongue and lymphatic glands of cattle and particularly in the head and neck. The bacillus which causes the disease is a soil organism, and enters animal tissue through…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Prominent Pastoralist Hits At Proposed Wool Levy
"It is illogical and absurd that there should be this incessant talk about a levy to take the cream' from the wool industry." Mr. A. Vickery, prominent pastoralist and industrialist in N.S.W. and Queensland, said this recently…
Continued on Trove, page 30 →Firm Cattle Prices at Unanderra
At Tuesday weekly sale at Unanderra, prices remained firm throughout most of the sale, but calves became cheaper at the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Keen Bidding, at A.i.s. Cattle Sale
Despite the extremely unpleasant weather proceeding and on the day of the sale, there was a good attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →State Butter Output Noticeable Increase Reported
Butter supplies from New South Wales factories have shown a notifiable increase since the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Recent Meeting of Milk Zone Dairymen's Council
At last meeting of the Management Committee of the M.Z.D.C. held in Sydney with Mr. J. B. Carlton presiding, a number of important matters came up for discussion…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Features for The Man on the Land Forthcoming British Farm Machinery Show
Britain's latest developments in agricultural machinery will be displayed as usual at the Smith-field Show, which this year opens in London on the 4th December…
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