Factory Earnings To Save Farms
More than a dozen farmers from Raymond Terrace area are working at the Masonite Corporation to earn enough to begin working their farms again. They had lost heavily in floods…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1951
930 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 47
Graziers Home On Sheep's Back
LONDON, March 6. A.A.P.—The arrival of 50 Australian sheep farmers in the liner Orion yesterday for a "golden fleece" holiday in…
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SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Wool sales in Sydney this season have already realised nearly £23,500,000 more than the total New South Wales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Blackleg Hits Cattle In Cessnock Area
Stockowners in the Millfield and Wollombi areas of Cessnock district had lost between 30 and 40 head of valuable young cattle in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Potato Crop Decline Next Season Likely
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—A general decline in New South Wales potato production was likely next season because 1263 growers had…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Rust-resisting Wheat Found
SYDNEY: Reports from the Middle East indicated that Gabo wheat tested in Egypt, Cyprus and Syria, had been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Knock on Windows at Night
LONDON: Tenants of Chingford (Essex) Council flats are complaining that, due to almost nightly invasion by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Good Competition At Wool Sales
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Great Britain, the Continent and the United States were the chief buyers at the wool sales to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Caterpillars Eat Hunter Crops
Many crops sown since the flood had been destroyed by army caterpillars, on the lower Hunter River areas, the Hunter Dairy Officer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Myxomatosis For Sheep"
MELBOURNE, Thursday.—"We see what myxomatosis has done to the rabbit menace. I wish a similar…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Inference Of Sheep Theft, Says Grazier
SYDNEY, Thursday—Mervyn William Harris, grazier, of Nyngan, claimed heavy damages from William Davis, of Nymagee, in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Values High As Wool Sales Close
SYDNEY, Thursday.—The 13th series of the Sydney wool sales concluded to-day with the market for all descriptions of merino equal to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Suburban and District. Plea On Urban Farmlands To Be Considered
Mr. Booth, M.L.A., yesterday advised urban farmland owners at Wallsend and Cardiff that the Minister for Agriculture (Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Electricity For Poultry Farms
Newcastle Electric Supply Department will investigate the possibility of maintaining constant power supplies to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Price Aim To Allow Expansion
CANBERRA, Tuesday.—Australia, was pressing the British mission in Australia for a formula to adjust export prices for butter to…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Lambs' Wool Brings 400d
MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Merino lambs' wool brought 400d a lb at Geelong sales to-day. The price was paid for two bales from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Newcastle Wool Processing Co. Issuing Shares
SYDNEY. — The Newcastle Wool Processing Co. Ltd. is making an issue of 732,000 ordinary 5s shares at par…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Prison Farm Escapee Caught
SYDNEY.—An escapee from Emu Plains Prison Farm was recaptured after a chase through city streets today…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Last Sale Wool Leaves Today
The first shipment of wool from this month's sale will leave Newcastle late today for the United Kingdom when the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Broke From Prison Farm "To See Mother"
SYDNEY, Wednesday.—The youth who broke out of Emu Plains prison farm on Monday is alleged to have told police he…
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