More Wheat Planted This Season Report by District Agronomist
An estimated 484,900 acres of wheat have been sown in the Central West this season, according to estimates…
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Farming & the land, 1949
985 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 34 of 50
Family Vigil After Alleged Farm Shooting
A family locked themselves in a homestead and stayed awake all night with a loaded. rifle beside them after an alleged shooting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Report
On Thursday, 1st September, New Zealand Loan & M.A Co. Ltd. brought forward a catalogue totalling 7,894 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Sales
For their opening sale of the season this Company offered a catalogue of 6639 bales drawn from the North West, Far West, and…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wool Values & Trade. Recovery in Top Trade
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:— The absence of a spectacular rise in wool values at opening sales of the season despite a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crop Saving Rains Throughout Wheat Belt Big Dubbo Fall
Crop-saving rain fell through the wheat belt of New South Wales yesterday. Falls ranged from an average of an inch throughout the Riverina to three inches at Walgett…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Show Changes Sydney, Friday
The 1950 Sydney Sheep Show, to be held at the R.A.S. Show-ground on May 25, 26 and 27, will see a decided improvement…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Russia Wants Australian Wheat London, Friday
Russia is reported in the city to be trying to buy Australian wheat, possibly in exchange for petrel, according to the "Daily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Bale Hits Express SYDNEY, Friday
Twenty persons were injured, one seriously, when a dislodged bale of wool on a passing goods train shattered 45 windows of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Research Institute To Cost £52,000 SYDNEY, Friday
A contract had been signed for the construction of the New South Wales Wheat Research Institute at the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N.S.W. Sheep Increase Drought Losses Made Good SYDNEY, Friday
The N.S.W. Government Statistician's preliminary livestock figures for the year ended March 31, 1949, show that sheet…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crops Benefited
The Dubbo Agronomist (Mr. R. W. Shelley) mid the rain the following the good fails of a fortnight ago, would greatly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Puts the Case for Brer Fox Melbourne, Friday
The novel view that the present rabbit plague is due to the unrestricted killing of bunny's chief natural enemy…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prospects for Big Crop Bright Following Good Rains Throughout Wheat Belt
RAIN which was badly needed by Wellington district crops, fell during Thursday and Friday last, followed by light, steady showers on Saturday night. A total of 158 points for the three days was recorded at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£25 Million Interim Payment from Wool Profit
The Commonwealth Treasurer had approved the dispersal of £25,000,000 to wool growers from profits made on sales by…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Growers Lose £800,000 in Coal Strike
The recent general coal strike cost New South Wales wheat-growers a loss of about £800,000, the secretary of the Combined…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Purchase £1 Million Credit to Czechoslovakia. Canberra
Czechoslovakia has been granted credit of one million pounds to buy Australian wool in 1949/50, Prime Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commonwealth Wool
A heavy supply was yarded at the Homebush Weekly Market last week. The quality although fairly good was not…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Stealing Case at Peak Hill
At the Peak Hill Court of Petty Sessions on Monday two young men Velda Maurice McNamara and Reginald James McNamara were…
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