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Illawarra · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

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Sheep Dog Trials on

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 5

Sheep dog trials to be conducted by the Unanderra Committee of the Cub Lair War Memorial Appeal, are to be held…

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Milk Zone Dairymen's Council Annual Meeting

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 26 April 1950 · page 1

The annual meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was held in Scottish House, Bridge Street, Sydney on Thursday last. The President…

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Record Cattle Sale

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 27 April 1950 · page 23

A. J. Campbell reports two record yard sales last week. At Jamberoo Yards on Monday, he sold a record yarding of…

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Schools for Pig Raisers and Dairy Farmers

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 27 April 1950 · page 28

Separate short courses of training in general pig-raising and dairy farming will be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, from Tuesday, 11th July, to Friday, 14th July…

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Features for The Man on Land Greater Wollongong Has 279 Farms

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 27 April 1950 · page 28

There are less than 350 persons—including 40 women—employed on Greater Wollongong's 279 farm holdings, according to the Commonwealth Bureau of Statistics. The coldly impersonal figures supplied by the Bureau…

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Young U.S. Farmers Grow Trees

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 27 April 1950 · page 28

Planting and care of trees is studied by young people of rural United Stales as part of the…

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Milk Zone Dairymens' Council

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 27 April 1950 · page 16

The sixth Annual Meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymens' Council was held in Sydney last Thursday, under the chairmanship of…

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40-Hour Week In Dairying Industry

Kiama Independent · Saturday 29 April 1950 · page 3

A lengthy debate at the meeting of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council in Sydney last week proved that dairymen are much divided on whether…

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Cattle Sales

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 2

Mr. A. J. Campbell advises that in conjunction with J. N. King & Sons Pty. Ltd. he had a very successful Clearance Sale on…

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Sheep Dog Trials

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 1 May 1950 · page 14

Sheep Dog Trials, organised by the Unanderra Group Committee in aid of the Wolf Cub War Memorial Appeal, were…

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Big Yarding At Unanderra Cattle Sale

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 3

A large number of all types of stock were yarded at the weekly sales conducted by J. N. King & Sons on Tuesday at…

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Chinese Crop Failure May Cause Starvation

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 5

WASHINGTON, Wednesday (A.A.P.).—Widespread starvation might result from severe crop failures in China, the Food and…

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Farmers' Tractor and Machinery School at Hawkesbury College

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 28

The Minister for Agriculture, Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., has announced that a five-days School on Tractor Maintenance and Farm Implements would be held at Hawkesbury…

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A Murray River Farmer Who Has an 'Obsession'

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 28

There's an ex-World War I Digger on the Murray River, just outside Wodonga, in Victoria, whose yen for mechanised farming may best be described as a cross between a hobby and an…

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Features for The Man on the Land Farmers Fill-in Forms — Protect Interests

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Thursday 4 May 1950 · page 28

Most people, including farmers, dislike, filling in forms, but in many instances they can console themselves with the thought that when the wearisome task has been completed and…

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Record Price For Cattle

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Friday (A.A.P.).— A herd of 36 pedigree Guernsey cattle, at Hailshaw (Essex) yesterday sold for the record price…

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Coal Helps the Farmer

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1950 · page 5

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Record Entries for Dairy Farm Comp

South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus · Monday 8 May 1950 · page 7

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M,L.A., has announced that the 1949-50 Dairy Farm competition had…

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Dairy School

Kiama Independent · Wednesday 10 May 1950 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., has announced that a School of Instruction for men employed in dairy…

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Govt. Inquires Into Rice, Butter Restrictions

Illawarra Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 May 1950 · page 3

CANBERRA, Wednesday.—Inquiries are now being made by the Commonwealth Government into factors which could assist…

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