Lamb Breeders' Competition Gilgandra Farmers Win Award
Messrs. Gilmour and Cellert, of Breelong, Gilgandra, have won the Rural Batik Cup awarded for the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1951
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Wheat Case
The charge against J. J. Christian is being heard at Gilgandra Police Court as we go to press. A report…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Acute Shortage of Wheat Farm Machines
A survey of 94 wheat farms in the Parkes-Forbes district—considered typical of the central-western wheat belt of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →States Control Wheat Price Says Ministers
"The Australian Government has no power in its own rights to fix prices for wheat or any other commodity, except…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter To Rise 10d A 1b SYDNEY
A rise of 10d. a lb in the price of butter is expected to be announced in a few days, according to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Allocations Just Price for Grower
When he addressed a meeting of Mendooran woolgrowers last week, Mr. C. M. Williams, president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Case Everson Gets Six Months for Stealing
The case in which Lawrence Henry Everson was charged with stealing 40 bags of wheat valued at £54, the property of the Australian Wheat Board, was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Section Improvements Appeal from P. and A
At the last meeting of the Coonabarabran P. and A. Association, the secretary. Mr. M. J. Hennes[?]y, appealed to…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Graziers’ Pres. at Mendooran Post J.O. Wool Man
At the conclusion of his talk to Mendooran woolgrower[?] last week Mr. [?] M. Williams, president of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Junior Farmer Activity
The Junior Farmer Movefent entered a new field of activity on 23rd July, when the first Junior Farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gilgandra Junior Farmer Welcomed
The Minister for Education, the Hon. R. J. Heffron, welcoming Mr. Barwon Staggs, of "Lindon", Gilgandra, to the first Junior Farmer Tractor Operation and Maintenance School, sponsored by the Allis-Chamers…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Local Junior Farmers at Wagga
An interesting nine days were spent at Waggan Agricultural College by three members of the Gilgandra…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District's Onion Crop Is Bigger This Year
Good news for potato and onion hungry housewives is contained in the monthly report on crop conditions issued by the Dubbo Agronomist (Mr. R. W. Shelley)…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dubbo Dairyman Wins District Award
Prize winners are announced in the 1951 Dairy Farm Competition in the Orange Dairy District…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →A Linseed Crop at Dubbo in Perfect Condition
A linseed crop being grown by a Dubbo farmer, Mr. J. S. Lowe, was in almost perfect condition, the District Agronomist (Mr. R. W. Shelley) reported today…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lucerne Crops Have Big Diet Possibilities
For many years in Southern Queensland, lucerne tea—made by seeping the green leaves in boiling water —has been a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Health Officer Pronounces Wheat in Mary Vale Stack Unfit for Human Consumption Enormous Losses to State from Bag Stacks Represent National Calamity and Scandal, Says State Advisory Councillor of Agricultural Bureau
AT last Saturday's meeting in Wellington of the Macquarie Division of the Agricultural Bureau, State Advisory Councillor Mr. W. Cole stated that in company with Mr. K. L. Browne, Wellington Health Inspector, he had made an inspection of the wheat stack at Mary Vale and Mr. Browne had issued a certificate stating that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle Safe Postponed
The cattle sale advertised for this afternoon has been postponed on account of the rain, and will now be held at the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wool Sales
The Country Producers Selling Co. Ltd. reported on 26th July:— The completion of the July London wool sales brings to a close…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Cattle Station Makes News
In the vast North-West of West Australia a little money still goes a long way in the purchase of grazing lands…
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