Big Pineapple Crop This Year
BRISBANE, Thursday.—The pineapple crop in Queensland this year is expected to reach 670,000 cases, constituting the third highest crop…
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Farming & the land, 1946
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Opposition Likely to Wheat Plan
SYDNEY, Sunday.—Full support for the Commonwealth's new wheat plan may not be forthcoming from the States when the Premiers meet…
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WAGGA, Tuesday.—Speaking at the Wheatgrowers' Union conference at Wagga to-day, the General Secretary (Mr. J. Hazelton) said that…
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The woollen piece goods shortage, which would be noticeable this winter, would probably extend until March next year, said the President…
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A SMALL Junior farmer, member of the Nana Glen Junior Farmers' Club, has written to the Newcastle Show Society to…
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WAGGA, Wednesday.—The Wheat-growers' Union Conference to-day decided to ask the Federal Government to increase the price of the wheat plan…
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CANBERRA, Thursday.—The Premiers endorsed the Commonwealth Government's wheat stabilisation plan. Commonwealth and State…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Plant Now For Late Crops
Gardeners may plant the following vegetable seed now.—All varieties of dwarf French and climbing beans, beetroot, carrot, cauliflower,…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Ever in creasing pressure is being exerted on Australia by the Combined Food Board in Washington for increased…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Dairymen Threaten Strike
Maitland branch of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council decided by a two to one majority last night to withhold milk supplies if present negotiations by the council for subsidies are unsuccessful…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers Don "Sunday Best" for V.c. Winner's Party
MACKSVILLE.—The small dance hall at Weree Creek will be packed to overflowing tonight when the township celebrates the award of the V.C. to one of its citizens—Private John Partridge. At widely separated points around Weree Creek, feverish activity…
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SYDNEY: About 2000 members of the wool, skin and hide division of the Storemen's and Packers' Union will hold a stop-work meeting in the…
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SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 28. A.A.P.—If the world surplus stocks of wool were handled properly, they could be absorbed within five years…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Good Millet Crop on Hunter
Early millet is being cut on the Lower Hunter. The crop is a good one, and shows how the plant will stand up to dry weather, which has…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Boon to Dairy Farmers Dams on Hunter River
No more welcome announcement could be imagined, from the angle of milk supplies, than that stating that dams were to be constructed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Prices Up 10/- at Waratah
Prices rose 10/ a head for a lighter supply of cattle at Newcastle Council saleyards at Waratah. The yarding included a sprinkling of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Shipment Delay Expected
Under new regulations governing the purchase of wool, it is feted there will be a delay in loading the next shipment of wool from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Says Communists Cause Trouble In Wool Industry
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Speaking at, the A.W.U. Federal Convention today, day, Mr. Wilson (N.S.W.) said there were no rackets carried out in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cr. Parish Finalist in Farmer Competition
SYDNEY, Thursday.—It was announced that Cr. S. T. Parish, of Wallalong, is one of the nine finalists in the progressive farmer competition…
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