Farmers "Quit" After Floods
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Owner-farmers were walking off their properties "in debt and brokenhearted by repeated floods." The Deputy Leader of the…
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Farming & the land, 1950
911 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 24 of 46
Weevils Attack US Cotton Crops
NEW YORK: Reports reaching cotton trade circles here from Washington indicate that 1950 may see the greatest…
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WASHINGTON: World sheep numbers at the beginning of 1950 were estimated at 730-million head, or 2 per cent below…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.—The total wheat acreage to be sown in New South Wales this year would be more than 10 per cent. below last…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sheep Droving In Rain Near Scone
This mob of sheep, begraggled in the rain, was being driven down the Gundy-road, near Scone, by drovers W. Watts and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Britons' Grim Choice: Guns Or Butter "Herald" Service
LONDON, July 13.—A "guns or butter" speech was made by the Assistant Under-Secretary of the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Board Appointments; Review Sought
SYDNEY, Thursday.—A review of the appointments of the Chairman and two producers' representatives on the Australian Dairy…
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LONDON.—The U.K. Ministry of Agriculture farm machinery census reveals that the number of farm machines…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Season's Wool Cheque May Reach £360,000,000
MELBOURNE: If current wool prices hold, Australia's wool cheque for the coining season may be about £360,000,000—a rise of about £85,000,000 on the record season just closed…
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CANBERRA, Friday.—Progressive Australian farmers would be given the opportunity of spending not less than six months in the…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →In Brief Australian Wheat For Egypt
The Australian Wheat Board has contracted to supply 7,500,000 bushels of wheat to the Egyptian Government. The chairman of the board (Mr. F. Cullen) said in Melbourne today that the price would be 18s a bushel bulk basis, free on board,…
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FRENCH HAT, made from a few skeins of wool with two knitting needles, was on display at an exhibition of woollen fabrics opened in Sydney yesterday by the Australian Wool Board…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Flood Damage To Queensland Wheat
TOOWOOMBA. — Overall damage from flood rains to thousands of acres under wheat would not exceed five per cent.,…
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A great future awaits South Africa's heat-resistant cattle in the warmer parts of the world, according to Mr. Jan. Bonsmal the…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →18/ A Bushel For Wheat Sold To Egypt
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—The sale of 200,000 metric tons (about 7,250,000 bushels) of wheat by Australia to the Egyptian Government…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Morisset-Cooranbong Junior Farmers
The Junior Farmers' movement has developed rapidly in the Morisset-Cooranbong area since its success in a district exhibit at the Newcastle Show last February…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →8000-Ton Wheat Cargo for U.k
The first ship to load wheat in Newcastle this season for the United Kingdom is due here on Saturday to take on an 8000…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Boon, Now Bane To Farmland
The recent Hunter Valley floods had reduced the richest agricultural area in Australia, temporarily at least, to one of desolation, the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Soil Erosion Pledge By Farmers
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The New South Wales Soil Conservation Commissioner (Mr. E. S. Clayton) said to-day that 2600 farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Dairymen Seek Subsidy
Dairymen must receive financial assistance to help them "get on their feet again" after the recurring floods, speakers said at a meeting of Maitland Milk Zone Dairymen's Council last night…
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