Pleuro Pneumonia Restricted Movement of Cattle
Attention is drawn to the existence of areas within New South Wales which have been kept free from Contagious Pleumonia of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1947
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Dusts for Controlling Wheat Weevils
The use of mineral dusts for protecting wheat scored in bulk depots is described in Bulletin 199, just issued by the Council…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral Outlook Extremely Serious Second Driest Year on Record
With the rainfall for 1946 the lowest on record the past month has shown ,further marked deterioration in the pastoral position throughout the Coonabarabran Pastures Protection Board district and the position is regarded as extremely serious…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Market Report Opening of Wool Sales
The New Zealand and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report: Monday of last week marked the opening of the second half of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Local Wool Brings Over 40d. Noel Knight Tops District Prices
Among district wool sold at Winchcombe Carson’s Sydney sales on Tuesday, top prices was secured by Mr. Noel Knight, of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Shortage of Feed Case Put for Small Farmers
Strong case for the dairy, poultry and pig farmer was made by the Member for Castlereagh (Mr J. B…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmer Runover And Injured By Own Tractor
To be pushed through a wire fence and run over by his own tractor was the experience of a district farmer yesterday afternoon. Mr. John S. Lowe (31) of Claydon,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairying Costs. Sir Earle Page Suggests Wider Inquiry
A plea that the Commonwealth Government's Committee should investigate not only direct but indirect costs in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Associated Agents Offer 10,000 Sheep
The associated agents report that approximately 10,000 sheep were yardes at the regularly monthly sale at the Peak Hill municipal sale yards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Stabilisation Plans Sydney
The Treasurer to the Farmers & Settlers Association, said last night that the Federal Government's Wheat Stabilisation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →High Wool Price. Sydney
Melbourne. — Four bales of superfine merino from the clip of J. R. Melrose, of Horsham, brought 105½d. per pound at the last day…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →No Provision for New Wheat Silos
The construction of new [?] was urged in the Legislative Assembly by Mr. W. A. Chaffey (C.P. Tamworth), who criticised the Government for its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Programme for Manufacture of Farm Machinery in Victoria
One million six hundred and thirty thousand pounds is the vast sum International Harvester will spend on the expansion of buildings and additional tooling of their plant at Geelong (Vic.) to manufacture in large quantities, under the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Report
The Country Producers' Selling Company Ltd. report: In our sale No. 7 Submitted on the 16th inst. we offered a good average…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →New Cattle Judging Rings Impress Breeders
Members of the United Stud Beef Cattle Breeders Association who inspected the new catle judging rings at the Royal Agricultural Society's Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wellington Dairy Farmers. No Federal Subsidy Relief
The recently announced Federal Government subsidy of one penny per gallon on milk is only for the Sydney Milk…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →Protest to Be Made Against Method of Seed Wheat Purchase
Members of the Gilgandra branch of the Wheatgrowers' Union have decided to lodge a protest with the Minister for Agriculture against the present method by which farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Farmer Gets Stares Instead of Beer
Giving evidence at the special sitting of the Licensing court at Coonabarabran on Wednesday a witness appearing on behalf of the applicants for a spirit merchants licence, told the Magistrate that because he was not a regular drinker at local…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dutch Farmers Coming to Australia to Live
Some 50 formers’ sons will emigrate from Holland to Australia next May or June. It is to be hoped that they will be the advance party…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Good Farming
This goes to show what good farming methods can do. On 65 acres at “Avondale,” Belar Creek— and five of them almost pure sand,…
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