Rats, Mice Swarm In Wheat Stack
MOREE, Tuesday.—Swarms of rats and mice have caused thousands of pounds worth of damage to railside wheat stacks at Egeroi and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1951
930 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 47
Catholic Girls Wait For Wheat Dance
Watching the display in the ring at Newcastle Sports Ground yesterday during the schools' Jubilee show were these smiling girls…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →'Enough' Capital For Wool Marketing Plan
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—The 7½ per cent. wool levy, which had operated for one season, had provided the initial capital necessary to support…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →20,000 [?] At May Wool Sales
About 20,000 bales of wool are expected to be sold in Newcastle in three days next week. It will be the last sale but one of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmer To Be Thanked For Repairs
Cardiff Urban Area Committee will thank Mr. K. Perry, whose farm is in the valley between Cardiff and Tick Hole Tunnel, for…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Victorian Sheep Thefts Mount
MELBOURNE, Thursday—Sheep worth about £10,000 have been stolen from grazing properties it Yaloak Vale, 50 miles from…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat Shipment To Resume
Wheat shipments from Newcastle are expected to resume about the middle of next month. The shipments will be the first…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Britain to Pay More for Butter
LONDON, Fri. (A.A.P.).— Britons will have to pay more for butter, margarine and cooking fats from May 20, the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Continent Chief Wool Buyer
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The United Kingdom and the Continent were the chief buyers at the resumed wool sales to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Wool Substitute To Weavers "Herald" Service
LONDON, April 26.—The first large deliveries of ardil, a new wool substitute made from peanuts produced in…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Drowned In Creek
Hilton Barnes, 23, of Bellingen, a dairy farmer, was drowned in a creek four miles from Bellingen on Wednesday. The body was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Contest Date Advanced
The Department of Agriculture has extended the closing date for entries in the 1951 dairy farm competition till May 31…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairymen Back To The "Old Days"
Blackouts had put dairying methods back 20 years, farmers at Gresford Show said yesterday. Dairymen drawing power from the electric supply have had to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Theatres "Kettles On The Farm"
Starting Marjoric Main, Percy Kilbride. Often sequels to films fail to reach the heights of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Graziers Move To Prevent Sheep Stealing
SYDNEY, Sunday.—To check sheep stealing, the New South Wales Graziers' Association will ask the Government to prevent anyone…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Silt "Not Stopping" Wheat Export
Silting in Newcastle Harbor was not preventing ships from loading wheat for overseas ports, spokesmen for two…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Plant Approved
The erection of a wool processing factory at Waratah West estimated to cost about £170,000 was approved by Northumberland…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Merino Wool Dearer
SYDNEY, Monday.—The market at Sydney wool sales to-day was firm, compared with last Thursday, for good merino fleece and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Eight Areas Bought For War Farms
SYDNEY, Monday.—Cabinet to-day approved the acquisition of eight estates for war service land settlement at prices in excess of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →225½d Paid At Local Wool Sale
Bidding was brisk when Newcastle wool sales resumed this afternoon and within a few minutes yesterday's top price…
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