Record Prices for Dairy Cattle at Hillview Clearing Sale
The Hillview sale of Mr. E. J. Swan's dairy herd proved one of the greatest Illawarra has known with the outstanding average of…
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Farming & the land, 1950
286 stories in Illawarra's papers · page 9 of 15
Wool For Winter
These attractive winter styles have been designed by the Australian Wool Board, Melbourne, to illustrate that wool can be warm but still glamorous…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →All States in Butter Contest
The Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. hopes to have butter factories throughout Australia competing in its Commonwealth Continuous Grading Class for Export Butter contest in…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Wool Cheque Worth £248,165,000
CANBERRA. Wednesday.—Australia's cheque for greasy wool sold during the 11 months ended May was worth…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tractor and Farm Implement Field Day
An invitation to visit the Hawkesbury College Field Day demonstrations of tractors and tractor drawn machinery on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers' Tractor Maintenance
Before the closing date set for applications to attend the Department of Agriculture's Tractor Maintenance and Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Farmer Killed
An 33 year old farmer, Adam McNellee, of West Cambewarra, was killed instantly on Friday morning when his horse…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blackout Hits Coast Farmers
A 12-hour breakdown in the Southern Electricity supply lines South of Kiama commencing at 10.45 p.m. on…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dutch Cattle T.B. PLAN Aims to Stamp out Disease in Five Years
Of interest to the advocates of a Government Compensation Scheme to re-imburse those farmers who suffer loss when some, of their cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Features for The Man on the Land M.Z.D.C. Move to Help Dairy Farmers Affected by Floods
A Special Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was held in Sydney last Wednesday (Mr. J. B. Carlton, presiding) to consider ways and means of af fording practical assistance to (1) those engaged in the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Junior Farmers' School Opened
The Minister for Agriculture (Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) officially opened the fourth annual Short Term School of…
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Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dairy Grant Expenditure
The Minister for Agriculture (Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) has stated he will take up at…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Flood Damage To Farms
A meeting of the Management Committee of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council was held in Sydney last Wednesday, Mr. J…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Proposal To Expand Cattle Industry
MELBOURNE, Monday.—A £1-million works' programme, which it is hoped will result in doubling cattle production in the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Careless Shooting Causes Loss to Dairy Farmers
The report in the "Daily Mercury" recently of the killing of a heifer at Marshall Mount presumably by a stray bullet, has…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →N.S.W. Butter Production Disturbing
Butter production from New South Wales factories is now at a low level, and distributing agents are importing large…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →'Farmer's Death Was Accidental'—coroner
A finding of "accidental" death was recorded by Nowra District Coroner (M. U. Wash) on Monday when inquiring into the death of Adam McNellee (80) farmer, of Cambewarra, who was…
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A meeting of milk producers, representing centres along the Coast and Tablelands, at Moss Vale last week sought special compensation to dairymen affected by the flood rains—those who…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Illawarra Cattle Amaze N.C. Farmers
South Coast dairy cattle sent to the flooded North Coast areas have amazed North Coast farmers with…
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