Brocklesby farmer leads in wheat competition
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 10
The first three awards in the field wheat competition conducted by the Albury Show Society in conjunction with the Royal Agricultural Society of N.S.W. were announced yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool Fashions
The Observer · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 6
Irone of California tailors this suit in fine black and grey novelty strips and check wool. (This soft was shown in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Soviet's butter purchase harden world markets
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 5
SYDNEY, Thurs. : Russia had hardened world markets by buying surplus butter, Primary Producers’ Union general president (Mr. R. C. Gibson) said today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers and Graziers Top Price of Series, Lambs’ Wool 117¼d
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 11
Farmers and Graziers report competition was animated and a total clearance was effected. They secured 117¼d. for the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Melbourne Wool Sales Younghusband Limited
The Pastoral Times · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 8
The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that the fifth series of wool sales in Melbourne were continued on Tuesday when…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Draft Allowance on Sale of Sheep Skins Abolished
The Observer · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 8
The Minister for Agriculture and Food Production, the Hon. Mr. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said this week that the Sale of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool sales ended on happy note
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 2
Fourth series of the Albury wool sales for the new season ended on a happy note yesterday when a total clearance of I8,000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Wheat Equal to Best" N.S.W. Record
The Corowa Free Press · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 3
The wheat grown in some parte of New South Wales was equal to the beet in the world, Mr. G. R. Crawford (Barwon)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →“It costs 12/7 to produce a bushel of wheat”
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 5
Thurs.: The cost of production of wheat in Australia for 1953-54 has been -determined at 12/7 a bushel, bulk basis, f.o.r. ports—an increase of 8d a bushel over 1952-53…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Generous farmers aid settlers
Border Morning Mail · Friday 4 December 1953 · page 6
SYDNEY, Thurs.: NSW farmers had donated stud stock worth a total value, of about £50,000 this year to soldier settlers, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Ate sheep because they were hungry !
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 22
MELBOURNE, Fri.: Two men and a youth who ate portion of a sheep after going without food for three days were convicted…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →53m. bushels of wheat in N.S.W.
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 18
SYDNEY, Fri.: The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Graham, forecast today that the NSW wheat yield this season would be 53 million…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Wodonga Dairy Farm £165 Per Acre
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 2
At Wodonga on Thursday a 50 acre dairy farm offered account Mr H. G. Pattison realised the high figure of £165 per acre. It…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Synthetic Fibres : Wool buyer claims no danger to real product
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 11
Another point of view was expressed this week in Albury during a discussion by a group of visiting wool buyers over the vexed question of synthetic fibres…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Storm Damages Wheat in Rutherglen District Temperatures in nineties in the Border Districts
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 5
Wheat crops in the Rutherglen district suffered from a severe storm which swept through the district yesterday afternoon. The storm hit Corowa…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Criticised Over Attitude Beechworth councillor on “one way traffic”
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 21
Primary producers were criticised yesterday By Beechworth Shire Councillor Keith Zwar for what he termed their failure to support the railways by using them for transport of goods…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Advice to Farm Workers : “Don’t be stampeded into joining unions”
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 10
SYDNEY, Fri.: The Leader of the N.S.W. Country Party (Mr Bruxner) today urged rural employes not to be stampeded into joining unions against their will and becoming…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Says important changes in Riverina farm pattern
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 11
Agricultural pattern in the Riverina district was undergoing important changes, the principal agronomist (Extension) of the N.S.W. Department of Agriculture (Mr George Nicholson) said…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →First advance on 1953-54 crop
Border Morning Mail · Saturday 5 December 1953 · page 11
Wheat growers will soon receive a first advance payment on their 1953/54 wheat crops. In the absence of the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sheep Killed by Train
Border Morning Mail · Monday 7 December 1953 · page 2
Fifteen sheep which rah on to the railway line four miles from Yarrawonga were killed instantly on Friday. The sheep were part of…
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