This Week in Wool World Wool Outlook Is Brightening
As wool markets at Newcastle and Geelong open the final ten weeks selling for the season, the trade is anxiuosly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farming & the land, 1958
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Farmers Hard-Hit By Drought
Farmers will have a harder job recovering from the 1957-58 drought than from previous droughts…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers
The District Agronomist, Mr. Paul Druitt of Deniliquin, addressed the monthly meeting of the Mathoura Junior Farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Rice Share-farmer Gets £820 Verdict
A verdict for £820 was awarded a rice share-farmer at the Deniliquin Quarter Sessions last week against Alf. E. Wallis Finance Co. (Bendigo) for damage to a rice crop, said to have been caused by sheep entering the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Oat Crops Delayed By Drought
Prolonged dry weather has prevented the large scale planting of oat crops, reports the Barham District…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Railways Carried More Wool
There was a tremendous increase in the amount of wool carried by the Victorian Railways from Mathoura and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Melbourne Wool Sales Goldsbrough, Mort and Company Ltd
This Company submitted a catalogue of 8,850 bales on the opening day of the 11th series of sales, on Monday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Melbourne Wool Sales the Victorian Producers’ I Co-op. Co. Ltd
The eleventh series of Melbourne wool sales was commenced Tuesday when this company offered a catalogue of 7,760…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmer Activities
Mr. Alan Sommerlad, District Supervisor of Junior Farmers at Deniliquin, has announced several J.F. activities…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Irrigation Farmers Criticised By Windouran Shire
Irrigation area farmers who allow drainage water to run onto roods were criticised by a meeting of Windouran…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Riverina's Heart—Key to our Wool Wealth
That part of the Riverina which is bounded by the Murrumbidgee River and the Yanko Creek, from Morundah right away west to Wanganella and Hay is a very remarkable piece of country…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Soldier Settler Dairy Farms at Albury
Seven soldier settlement farms in the Albury district will be thrown open for application early next month,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Geelong Wool Sales
The Geelong Woolbrokersâ Association reports that at the nineth series of wool sales in the 1957/58 season held on April…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →25,000 Ton Rice Crop Expected for Season
Rice harvest on New South Wales irrigated areas this year shows promise of being a record. Harvesting is in full swing, and is proceeding rapidly under ideal conditions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →[?]Aize Crop Yield Bushels Acre
[?] of irrigated hybrid maize has been [?] a Deniliquin farmer, Mr. W. Her[?] and [?] variety at present being harvested, [?] of 70 bushels per acre…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Yesterday’s Cattle Market
The Deniliquin Stock and Station Agentsâ Association report having held their usual fortnightly cattle sale…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sold Sheep for Queen
At the last Deniliquin sheep sales, the president of Deniliquin Football Club (Mr. M. F. Conallin) donated a fat sheep to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Melbourne Wool Sales
The Melbourne Woolbrokers report that at the eleventh series of wool sales for the 1957/58 season, held on April 21-23 the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →This Week in Wool Drought Wools Are Glutting Market
Reports of low wool prices at Brisbane last week placed disproportionate emphasis on the fall in values without due…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Will the Engineer Cost the Farmer Out of a Living?
The Engineers are very busy in the projected Coleambally Irrigation Area. Now that they know the levels of the land, the draglines and bulldozers have moved in, tearing up the soil, damming the River,…
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