Wool Sales
The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that the second series of Wool Sales in this centre this season commenced on…
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Kiewa butter factory pays 7 p.c
At the well-attended 62nd annual meeting of shareholders of Kiewa Butter Factory held on Tuesday in Kiewa Memorial Hall…
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BRISBANE, Wed.: Hundreds of sheep are starving to death in Brisbane Abattoirs, while a union dispute continues between…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Kiewa Butter Factory Has Model Pig Farm
The Kiewa Butter and Cheese Factoryâs pig farm had achieved results which were better than any other…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Seasonal Prospects Critical Stage Reached for Early Wheat Crops In Culcairn Shire
Rainfall registrations in September throughout the Albury district had been insufficient for crop and pasture requirements, and this, coupled with the hick of subsoil reserves of moisture, have resulted in a…
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GEELONG, Thurs.: A market fully firm on the improved rates quoted yesterday, with the exception of Merino wools, was…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →District Sheep Breeders Gain Placings In State Championship
Mr. H. W. Kreutzberger, "Wattle Park," Henty, was the winner of the Second Championship Trophy in the Farmer and Settler Merino Ewe competition for 1954. Another Henty breeder, Mr…
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SYDNEY, Thurs.: The Australian Wheat Board today reminded growers that it would not accept wheat in secondhand bags…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Bonds for Youths Admitting District Wool Stealing
A youth from Jerilderie and another from Melbourne pleaded guilty this week in the Court of Quarter Sessions,…
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At 7 p.m. on Wednesday, October 6, a huge charabanc arrived in Hay. It contained about forty visitors, consisting of a party of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Henty Farmer Wins Fodder Award
Mr. R. B. Scott, "Glen Elgin," Henty, has won the Southern Inland zone championship of the R.A.S…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Albury Crop Report
Reporting on seasonal conditions for the Albury district, Mr. G. R. Godden, agronomist, states:--…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Shown Syphon
Work on the Lawson Syphon may be complete by April or May, Moama and Mathoura Irrigators…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →112 cattle feed on 15 acres
Fifteen acres of pasture, sown on land inundated by floods last February, has since supported a herd of [?]cows…
Continued on Trove, page 22 →Border Crops Standing Up Well to Dry Spell But two inches of rain needed now
Lack of substantial rain in the past weeks has not yet seriously affected crops in the immediate Albury district, according to farmers contacted last night…
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Stock to be fed sheep nuts should be gradually accustomed to the diet, the Division of Animal Industry if the NSW Department…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Grass tetany killing many cattle
Grass tetany disease was causing losses of beef cattle in many parts of Victoriaâparticularly the western and north-eastern districts…
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BOMBALA, Sun.: In a âquite extraordinaryâ lambing season at Mynora Station, Bombala, four sets of quadruplet lambs, two sets of triplets and 176 sets of twins have been born…
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Entomologists of the NSW Department of Agriculture said this week that it would be a waste of time aplying lindane to a wheat…
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SYDNEY, Mon.: Values were generally firm for fine quality merinos at the opening of the Sydney wool sales today. Irregularity continued for…
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