Cornsacks for Coming Wheat Harvest
The Australian Wheat Board, as the sole Importer at jute, is experiencing difficulty in obtaining suffi-cient supplies of wheat bags and jute…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1950
1,353 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 53 of 68
Wool Goes Round The dock
Luncheon[?] dress of[?] matching hairy[?] ensemble de[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Quarantine Restrictions on Queensland Cattle to Protect N.S.W. Stock From Pleuro-pneumonia
No cattle recently introduced into N.S.W. from Queensland may cross the Northern Districts Quarantine Line unless certified free of…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Rice Crop Sown From Air
A rice crop has been sown from the air for the first time in Australia. The sowing was made last week on an experimental area of 50…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →No New Agricultural Colleges Experiment Farms Staff Shortages Delay
No more agricultural colleges and experiment farms are to be established by the Minister for Agriculture until he is able to staff them…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →[?] Farmers at [?]Ment Station
[?] to the rain the Narromine [?] Farmers were unable to attened at the Trangie Experiment Sta[?] but 29 of the Trangie boys and…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Rice Crop Sown by 'Plane Sydney
A rice crop has been sown from the air for the first time in Australia. The sowing was made on an experimental area of 50…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →River Falls After Failing to Reach Record Levels All Vegetable Crops Many Homes Flooded
The flood at Dubbo yesterday equalled the July levels but was about two feet under the record flood experienced in April. After reaching a peak of 43ft. 4ins. the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Floods Cause Further Extensive Damage Heavy Losses in Ruined Crops, Fences and Roads District Flocks Stricken by Pneumonia Epidemic With High Mortality in Wet, Cold Weather
THE sustained flooding of the Bell River flats on Wednesday night, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, caused extensive damage to vegetable crops, lucerne, fencing, farm machinery, wells and pumping plant and severely scoured the valuable vegetable producing area in the vicinity of the river. Crops of potatoes and carrots with…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sheep Rescued From Dubbo "Island"
After being marooned by floodwaters on a tiny "island" on a Dubbo district property for five days, a mob of 1000 sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Tax Plea For Soldier Settlers
The Minister for Lands (Mr. Renshaw) said last week that he had asked the Premier to take up with the Prime Minister the question of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bales of Wool Topple Off Lorry in Dubbo
Seventeen bales of carbonised wool, valued at approximately £3,400, toppled off a lorry at the intersection of Talbragar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Tax Scheme Attacked Viciously Sectional Claims Minister SYDNEY
Woolgrowers had been singled out to balance the Federal Budget to the extent of £103,000,000 by the imposition of a viciously sectional tax, said the New South Wales Minister for, Agriculture (Mr. Graham)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Federal Govt's. Wool Plan Defended
Mr. Keith McKenzie of Westmount, Mudgee, writes to the Editor as follows: An article in the "Liberal"…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Big Wheat Yield Likely Despite Weather
Although recent rains may cause rust in some Dubbo wheat crops, the District Agronomist (Mr. Shelley) believes that there are excellent prospects for a high yield this season…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Huge Losses of Sheep in Orange District Orange
About 10.000 sh[?]p, worth more than £30.000. died in the Orange -Molong-Cumnock - Wellington districts last week…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Record Wool Price Paid at Geelong Melbourne
A world record price of 290½d. a lb. was paid for a bale of super merino lambs' wool at Geelong wool sales yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Field Day Held for Gil. Junior Farmers
A field day organised by the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Sydney was held in Gilgandra for Junior farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmer Awards at Gilgandra
Mr. Neville Wilson, of "Bungey," Gilgandra, who was a successful competitor in the recent State Junior Farmers' Wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Australia Lagging in Aerial Farming Methods
Australia appears to be lagging behind other countries—notably the United. States, England and New Zealand—in "aerial farming" methods. Seed sowing, fertilizer distribution and insect…
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