Canadian Tornado Wiped Out Farms
OTTAWA, June 20. A.A.P.—Monday night's tornado, which in 10 minutes devastated Windsor City, also caused 5,000,000 dollars damage…
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Farming & the land, 1946
657 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 13 of 33
Millions for British Farms
A five-year-plan to spend more than £100,000,000 on modern machinery for British farms has been drawn up by the National Farmers' Union…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Watching Cattle Branding
The Duke and Duches of Gloucester watch cattle being branded at Augustus Downs Station, near Burketown, in the Gulf of Carpentaria. That night, they attended a corroboree arranged in their honour…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—More than three million square yards of woollen textile, valued at over £1 million were exported from Australia in…
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To enable completion of the modern facilities available for loading wheat at Carrington. merchants here consider that there should be…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—A subsidy for poultry farmers would be considered by the Commonwealth Government, said the Minister for the…
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DUBBO, Sunday.—John Winning, 27, who escaped from Dubbo gaol last Sunday and was recaptured yesterday, lived on wheat and oranges…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Price Will be Maintained
CANBERRA, Sunday.—In the absence of circumstances, at present unforseen, the reserve price to be maintained for wool during the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairymen Cleared by Milk Surplus
The fact that there was a surplus of milk supplied to the Milk Board was a complete answer to those who accused dairymen of inefficiency and…
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LONDON, Monday.—Speaking to farmers in Norfolk yesterday, Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Lord President of the Council, outlined some of the things that must be done by agriculture to help Britain's food position…
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An application to register the Newcastle Poultry Farmers' Cooperative Society will be made in the next few days…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A self-supporting farm for inebriates is favoured by the Minister for Health (Mr. Kelly)…
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WASHINGTON, Wednesday: The proposed long-term wheat agreement between Canada and Britain foundered on the rocks…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.—Under the wool purchase scheme between Australia and Britain, which expires on June 30, Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Merger Seen As Threat to Dairying
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Mergers of big private companies associated with the processing of dairy produce were a threat to the dairy stabilisation and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Appraisement
Winchcombe Carson Ltd. sold 2025 bales of wool at their final appraisement on Thursday, making 48,900 bales for the company this season. Prices…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →D.D.T. Aids Crops In Hunter Valley
Thanks to D.D.T., cabbages and cauliflowers grown in the Hunter Valley are freer from insect injury than they have ever been before, according to the Senior Agricultural Instructor (Mr. G. T. Dawson)…
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CANBERRA: Starving in the snow on the Upper Monaro tablelands are 150,000 sheep and cattle. Some have had no food for nearly a fortnight. Scores are being shot or slaughtered to save them from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rain in Southern Wheat Belt
WAGGA, Sunday. — Good rain fell in southern and south-western districts at the week-end. Registrations varied from two inches at…
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HAND-FEEDING SHEEP at Adaminaby, near Cooma, where snow has covered natural feed. Where hand-feeding- is difficult in the district, thousands of sheep are in danger of starving, and scores are being slaughtered to save them from the suffering of starvation…
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