10-Year Wheat Scheme Still Favored
A 10-year wheat stabilisation scheme was still the favored plan of the New South Wales Government in spite of its unsuccessful…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1950
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Hints on Wool Classing Large Lots Sped Up Auctions
Experience has again shown the advisability of classing wool in the shed into big lines of comparatively uniform trade quality…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Junior Farmer Supervisors
Following a question in the Legislative Assembly by the Leader of the Country Party (Lt.-Col. Bruxner), the Minister…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Tobacco Crop Yield Likely
Harvesting is now in progress in the tobacco crowing areas of New South Wales, and indications are that slightly above…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers’ Coop. Grain, Insurance and Agency Co. Ltd. report 17th. March, 1950: At our sale on the 16th. instant,…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Stabilisation of Wheat State Favours 10 Year Plan
Although it has not been adopted by the Commonwealth Government, the New South Wales Government…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →100 People Evacuated From Homes At Wellington £15,000 Flood Damage to Vegetable Crops Many Vehicles Trapped
More than 100 people living in low lying areas around Wellington were hurriedly evacuated by police in the early hours of this morning when the Bell River broke its banks. Great vegetable growing flats around Wellington were inundated,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →£10 Basic Wage Case Vital to All Farmers
"I wonder if primary producers realise the very great importance to them, of the present proceedings before the Commonwealth Arbitration Court with reference to an application by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Disastrous Flood In Bell River Vegetable Growers Suffer Big Losses of Tomato and Bean Crops. Wellington Flats Become Mile-wide Sea of Water Within Few Hours of Storm Deluge
FOLLOWING a deluge of from two to four inches of rain which fell over the Wellington district within a few hours last night, the Bell River rose over its banks with startling suddenness and created a mile-wide flood across the Wellington flats during the early hours of this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Demand for Improved Silo Facilities. Minister To Be Asked To Visit Wellington. Graziers' and Carriers' Associations Add Voices to Farmers' Representations
REPRESENTATIONS for improved wheat handling facilities at the Wellington Silos will be strengthened by the combined demands of the Wellington Branch of the Transport Workers' Union, Farmers and Settlers'…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Sales
" On Monday, 13th March, New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. brought forward a catalogue Mailing 7472 bales…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Results Of Sheep Research
"It would appear that if we were able to find some means or other to destroy 90 per cent of the flies which . strike sheep, there would…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →State Plan on Wheat Ten Years' Scheme Of Stabilisation
Wheat stabilisation for a 10-year period is favoured by the New South Wales Government even though it has not been…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →No Ploughman for Council's Farm
Although during the part five years, four wheat crops grown on the Common by the Narromine Municipal Council have boosted council's…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farm's Best Product? It's The People!
The complaint often is heard in agricultural circles that city folks seem to forget that farms supply urban areas with more than food…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Smaller Wheat Crop Likely Farmers Runnina Behind Schedule
Wheat farmers are running well behind schedule in preparing their land for this season's crop, reports the Dubbo District Agronomist (Mr. R. W. Shelley) in his monthly review crop conditions,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →London Wool Price Rise London, Friday
Strong domestic and European competition forced prices up to five per cent, above last week's rates at the London wool…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Organisation To Be Continued LONDON
Australia, New Zealand, Britain and South Africa have agreed to continue the Joint Wool Organisation on its…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Little Chance of Linseed Crops in 1950
"The possibility of large scale mowing of linseed in the Dubbo district reason seems to have anished," says the District…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →March Review of Crop Crop Conditions. Flood Damage to Vegetable Crops. Prospects Fading for Large Scale Sowings of Linseed
WEATHER conditions during March were mild to warm and humid. Except for the torrential rain which fell over a wide area of the Central West on Wednesday night last, March 29, the rainfall was comparatively light,…
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