Fire In Waste Wool Burned Seven Hours
SYDNEY, Monday.—Waterloo and Botany fire brigades and a squad from headquarters were seven hours extinguishing a blaze in 200 tons of…
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Farming & the land, 1944
535 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 25 of 27
Dairy Herd 1200 Feet Underground
NEW YORK. Sunday.—Milk is being supplied to the American occupied town of Alsdo[?] (Germany) from a herd of 25…
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The General President of the New South Wales Primary Producers' Union (Mr. R. C. Gibson) told the district delegates' meeting at…
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The President (Mr. R. L. Fitzgerald, M.L.A.) told the District Council of the Lower Hunter Primary Producers' Union, which met…
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SYDNEY, Wednesday.—A scheme for the equitable distribution, of bran, pollard, and meat meal, which was in very short supply, would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Crop Stubble Wanted to Help Fodder Stocks
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Graham) has appealed to wheat and oat growers with fair stubble to save the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Farmer Convicted Exposed Liquor for Sale
After evidence had occupied two davs—one at Clarence Town on October 11 and another at West Maitland on November 3—the hearing…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farm Boy to Air Ace
WASHINGTON, November 30. A.A.P.—Lieutenant Cecil Harris, a former farm boy, of South Dakota, shot down four Japanese planes in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →North Coast Dairy Output Maintained
LISMORE, Friday.—Although conditions in early November were becoming unfavourable dairy production generally on the North Coast…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Graze on Stunted Lucerne
Dairy farmers at Singleton have had to turn their cattle into lucerne paddocks for feed. Because of the drought grazing paddocks are bare. The effect of the drought may be seen in the stunted lucerne, which in good season grows to three feet high…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool to Europe Will Go by French Ports
SYDNEY, Monday. — After the cessation of hostilities, resumption of a large wool consumption would depend, so far as the European…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Research on Coal, Wool Mr. Scanlon Makes Comparison
If the same amount of money to be spent each year on wool publicity and research were devoted to the inqustrial problems of the coal…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmers' Clubs Want Supervision
OWING to the staffing position in schools it was not yet possible to release a full-time supervising teacher of school agriculture in the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Prospects Deteriorate
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—In its final official forecast on this season's wheat crop in New South Wales, the Department of Agriculture announces…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Commerce Minister Suggests Pipeline From Greta for Black Creek Farms
Best way out of the difficulty caused by pollution of water at Branxton through pumping of water from Ayrfield No. 3…
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LONDON, Dec. 6. A.A.P.—The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Hudson) has announced that there is to be close supervision and control over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Charlestown Poultry Farm Production Threatened
Egg production in Charlestown and district is estimated at 750,000 dozen a year. It was stated at a meeting of the District War Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Very Heavy Rain Might Worrv Hunter Farmers
In spite of the fact that then are suffering from the drought, really heavy rain at the present time would be anything but welcome to many farmers along the Lower Hunter and Lower Williams rivers…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Letter Box Wool Research
Mr. Scanlon deplores the fact that the Government intends to spend £600,000 on wool research. This is indeed terrible, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Junior Farmer's Winning Tree
George Greenwell's winning peach tree at Cardiff in the Newcastle District Junior Farmer Club's competition, which was extended over three years. Left to right: Mr. H. N. Cox, Secretary of Newcastle District council of Junior Farmer Clubs…
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