Strike Protest on New Wool Award
As a protest against the reduced wool value allowance paid to shearers and shed hands, in the Dubbo district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farming & the land, 1952
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Appeal to sow more wheat was too late !
MELBOURNE, Mon.: Victorian farmers would sow about 2,400,000 acres of wheat this season, compared with last…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Production Competition
With its objective, the encouraging of better farming and increasing production without detriment to the land…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter, cheese production down
CANBERRA, Tues.: Production of Australia’s main dairy products —whole milk, butter, cheese and processed milk—showed a…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →C.W.A. Wool Day
There was a splendid attendance at the combined. Wool and International Day held by the Berrigan branch of the C.W.A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rain Stops Cropping
For the first time in years seasonal conditions have made cropping impossible in the Walbundrie district. Following the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →“Agreements with Britain shackled farmers with low prices”
SYDNEY, Tues.: Australia could sell abroad more primary produce than it did today, and much more profitably, if it were not shackled by agreements to accept prices considerably…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Yarrawonga Special Sheep Sale
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report having conducted a successful sheep sale at Yarrawonga recently, (the sale…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Battle Against Wheat Rust
Although planes and helicopters have been used in USA and Canada for chemical spraying of wheat and other crops…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Wheat Sowing May Be Halved Through the Rain
Albury and district wheat growers will be fortunate this season to sow half last year’s acreage, reports the senior agronomist at Albury, Mr G. C. Bartlett. He says the position is very serious. A month ago it was…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Inquest on Gerogery farmer’s death
Wheir 52-year-old Gerogery farmer, Jack Chappie, was struck by the speeding Riverina Express on March 29, he was killed…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Brand Cattle with Care; Practical Hints
Some cattle owners do not seem to realise the damage that can be done to hides by faulty methods of branding and by…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bulk Wheat Handling Facilities for Coming Harvest
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A.) said this week that extensions to the wheat silo at Tootool, increasing the storage capacity from 50,000 to 150,000 bushels of wheat, and the conversion of the plant to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Production of Wool, Beef And Mutton in South-East Riverina Could be Increased by 50 per cent
The output of wool, beef, mutton and other stock products in the South-East Riverina could be stepped up 50 per cent. in three to five years, the District Agronomist. (Mr. G. C. Bartlett) said at Albury this week…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tractor and Farm Machinery School at Wagga
"A special school of instruction in operation and maintenance of tractors and wheat-farming machinery is to be held…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Tax concessions for farmers
CANBERRA, Thurs.: In the House of Representatives today the Treasurer (Sir Arthur Fadden) introduced a Bill giving…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commercial Wagga Sheep Market
The associated agents of Wagga (New Zealand Loan, AML & F Coy., Dalgety, R. H. Blake & Co., Farmers & Graziers and Younghusband) report…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wheat prices clash
MELBOURNE, Fri.: Although there were indications that the International Wheat Council would fail to reach an…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →“Some Farmers, Graziers Apathetic to Spread of Fire”
WAGGA, Fri.âGraziers and farmers whose properties lay in the path of the Mangoplah bush fire which re-started on January 24 last had been apathetic in answering an appeal to help keep under control the area burnt two days earlier…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Show
Sheep from some of the most famous studs in Australia will be exhibited at the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' 53rd Show, which…
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