Yarrawonga dist. farmers “will ploy the game”
Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 16
Supper room of Yarrawonga Shire Hall was packed to capacity on Wednesday when district farmers met to consider o telegram from Mr. H. H. Glowery, chairman of the Grain Elevatorsâ Board, in reference to the…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →U.S. farmers prefer to chophay instead of baling it
Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 11
Chopping instead of bailing increasingly popular in fire area of the United States visited by Queenstand junior farmer Hart Haston Famers preferred to chop hay because of lower…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Young farmers in U.S. do warning job
Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 11
Members of many young farmer clubs in the United States visit district farms to put warning…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →News features for the man on the land Extensive rain saved many grain crops
Border Morning Mail · Friday 24 December 1954 · page 11
Extensive and widespread rainstorms in recent weeks have saved many wheat and oat crops from failure and assured an abundance of feed and replenished water supplies, the extension agronomist of the NSW Department of Agriculture (Mr G. Nicholson) said…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →537 irrigation farms for settlers
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 2
MELBOURNE, Mon.: It was anticipated that all the blocks in the big Murray Valley soldier settlement would be allotted…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer Found Shot Dead
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 2
A 59-year-old South Corowa farmer was found shot dead at the foot of a haystack on his property at 6.10 a.m. yesterday. He was…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmlets for Lease
Border Morning Mail · Tuesday 28 December 1954 · page 10
SYDNEY, Mon.: An area of Crown land near Nowra has been subdivided into farmlets and will be allotted on January 10, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool man criticises appointments
Border Morning Mail · Wednesday 29 December 1954 · page 13
MELBOURNE, Tues.: A former chairman of the Australian Wool Board today strongly criticised the policy of appointing…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Sheep Numbers Near Record
The Pastoral Times · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 7
Official sheep numbers in N.S.W. are now stated to be 59,639,000, as at March of this year. These figures were…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →U.s. Wheat Offer to Yugoslavia
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 3
WASHINGTON, Wed,: The United States has promised to give Yugoslavia enough wheat to tide the Balkan nation over a critical…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Melbourne Wool Sales Elder, Smith & Co. Ltd., Melbourne, Report
The Pastoral Times · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 6
The fourth series of Melbourne wool sales was continued on November 24, when we offered our catalogue of 3,835 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Magic algae might grow crops without soil!
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 16
BERKLEY (California), Wed.: Air could be turned into fertiliser by magic little algae, raising the prospect of…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Mr. Tafft wins Rutherglen crop competition
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 6
Mr. Tafft won the Rutherglen wheat crop competition, which was judged recently by Mr. John Henderson, of Numurkah. The crop, of Quadrah, was grown on shares with Messrs. Olcorn brothers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Journey of Re Discovery(iii): Modem trend in Border district farms (“Mail” Special)
Border Morning Mail · Thursday 30 December 1954 · page 5
The writerâs absence from the border district for 10 years provided an appreciated opportunity recently to observe and inform himself upon various aspects of primary…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Payments
The Riverine Grazier · Friday 31 December 1954 · page 1
Owing to acute shipping delays Melbourne WoolbroKers have agreed to extend the period of payment for wool sales held on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Civil Servants and Wool Bureau Jobs Denial of Use of Pressure
Border Morning Mail · Friday 31 December 1954 · page 6
CANBERRA, Thurs.: A denial that Government circles had used pressure or influence to secure the appointment of public servants to positions on the Australian Wool Bureou and the Intentional Wool Secretariat…
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