M.L.A. Moves For Butter Price Increase MELBOURNE
A RISE of 3d. per lb. in home consumption of butter would mean a rise of 6d in the basic wage, the State Prices Minister (Mr. Oldham) said today in the Legislative…
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Will Interest the Farmer
There is much to hold the interest of the farmer in the popular machinery display section at the show…
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Albury Junior Farmers' Club has a really first-class display of competitive and non-competitive live…
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MOSCOW, Tues.: Mahmet Bozakov, a Russian collective farmer, has reached the age of 140 years,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Lalalty Junior Farmers’ Club. (Contributed.)
This Club, although it has not been existence for a very long period, is [?] in an excellent manner. Credit for this is due mainly to Miss…
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"Unless dairy cattle judging begins earlier and in a separate ring, entries in this section will slump. Earlier judging prevents the…
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"It is a great pity that there was no competition in the beef breeds," beef cattle judge at the Albury show, Mr R. C. Buchanan,…
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Making- a report on the condition of wheat crops in south–eastern Riverina yesterday, District Agronomist of the…
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CANBERRA, Wed.: Details of dollar allocations for purchase of agricultural machinery in the current dollar year, ending…
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Albury Junior Farmers Club display was one of the best patronised on the ground yesterday, large crowds being present…
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CANBERRA, Thurs.: Restoration of the private market would mean that tea prices would probably rise to approximately twice the present…
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SYDNEY, Thurs: All the best features of the recent auctions were strongly reproduced at the dosing sales at the Sydney wool sales today…
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Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd. (incorporating the business of Wilkinson and Lavender Ltd.), wired under yesterday's date:…
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LONDON, Thurs.: Since devaluation of sterling,; prices of raw wool have risen five percent above those ruling at the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cattle Entries Outstanding at Culcairn Show Judge Congratulates Shorthorn Breeders
Mr. L. Dugdale, of Bacchus Marsh, president of the Victorian branch of the Shorthorn Society, who judged the Shorthorns at Culcaixn's 36th annual show last Saturday, said the cattle would not be out of place in any Royal Show in Australia, and the breeders were to be…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Harvest Better Than Last Year Expected in N.S.W. SYDNEY
PROSPECTS for the wheat, oats and barley harvests had been completely transformed b y soaking rains spread over the past five weeks, the cereal specialist of the N.S.W. Agricultural Department (Mr. G. Nicholson) said tonight…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Corowa Municipal Council More About the South Corowa Water Supply Swimming Instruction Campaign Cattle Saleyards Facilities Urged
His Worship the Mayor (Aid, G. N. Eberie) presided over the usual monthly meeting of the Corowa Municipal Council on Tuesday night last October 11, 1949 There were also present: Deputy Mayor M. H. Carrigg Aldermen T. S. Carson S. R. E. Loveridge,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmer Declares That Rural Interests Are Ignored Melbourne, 'Thursday
"There is now unmistakable evidence that the Victorian Government is committed to a city vote-catching policy at the expense of rural interests," said Mr. Stirling, president of the Australian Primary Producers' Union, today…
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A proposal to build a Junior Farmers' Club pavilion at the Albury showground was discussed at a meeting of the Albury Junior…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Aphides Attacking District Peach Crop
District orehardists’ efforts to combat the black peach aphides (anuraphis [?]periscoe [?]niger), which are attacking their fruit…
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