All-Time High In Wool Prices? SYDNEY
Woolbrokers predict a sharp rise in prices when Sydney wool sales begin on August 28. Because of floods, only 47,160…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1950
152 stories in North West (Tamworth to Moree)'s papers · page 5 of 8
Farming on Year-Round Basis
Five days a week, at 6 a.m., a successful U.S. farmer begins a half-hour radio talk on farm problems with information on the weather and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Silage Inadequate for Sheep Without Supplement
Trials carried out by the Department of Agriculture at departmental experiment farms have shown mat while silage can maintain life…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pregnancy Toxaemia Prevalent in Sheep
Pregnancy toxaemia is prevalent in ewes heavy in lamb over a wide area of the State, as a result of deteriorating pastures—reports the Division of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Wool Sales Newcastle
Auctions of wool are scheduled to commence in Newcastle on September 5. The quantity of wool which has…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Post Joint Organisation Wool Plan
Delegations appointed by the Governments of New Zealand, South Africa and Australia will meet in Melbourne on Monday,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Racecourse Trust's Wheat Crop
Narrabri Racecourse Trust has a promising wheat crop of 60 acres. It is growing in the centre of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Drenching Mortalities
The heavy sheep mortalities sometimes sustained by graziers after drenching their flocks with carbon tetrachloride against liver fluke are…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Sowing Wheat by Aircraft
"Although there may be no technical difficulties to distributing wheat seed evenly from aircraft, there are several practical problems…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Newcastle Wool Sales Postponed Newcastle, Thursday
Opening wool sales at Newcastle have been postponed from September 5 to October 8, because floods have held up…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep's Teeth
Lime supplements can prevent the particular abnormality in teeth development in young sheep fed on cereal grain mixtures, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Less Wheat Next State Harvest
Total area sown to wheat in New South Wales will probably be 3,400,000 acres, as compared with 4,206,000 acres in 1949—estimates the Division…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Crops Show Effects of Excessive Rains
Weather during August was finer generally than it has been for some months, the District Agronomist states in his monthly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Higher Wool Prices Forecasted Sydney
Woolbrokers predicted today that wool at the second series of sales this week would bring more than eight million pounds. Prices…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Smuggling Alleged on Border MELBOURNE
Police will patrol a section on the N.S.W.-Victoria border in an attempt to stamp out sheep smuggling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Millions for Wool SYDNEY
Wool sold at auction in Sydney and Adelaide during the last four days in August, realised £14,452,242, it was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheatgrowers' Union Opposes Wool Tax
A motion objecting to the proposed wool tax was passed by a meeting of Narrabri branch of the Wheatgrowers' Union on…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Graziers Voice Concern at Proposed Wool Tax
Strong opposition to the proposed wool tax was expressed by a number of graziers at a specially summoned meeting to consider the proposal, held in Narrabri on Friday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →North Western Farmer Aerial-farms in Ebor District
An experiment in aerial farming at Maida Vale station is being watched with much interest by residents of the Ebor district…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Crop Spraying Units at Work
Spraying of [?]seed crops against the pest heliethis caterpillar is in progress throughout the district…
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