N.S.W Wheat Harvest Forecast of 44½ Million Bushels
A final review of the wheat crop position in New South Wales indicates a yield of million bushels…
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Farming & the land, 1952
1,155 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 56 of 58
Bush Fire Devastates Vast Area of Narromine-trangie District Enormous Loss of Stock, Wheat, and Property in Worst Outbreak for 30 Years
The most disastrous fire for thirty years swept through vast areas of the Trangie and Narromine districts on Wednesday and yesterday, and was being held in check to-day only through the efforts of large numbers of volunteer fire fighters using power fire fighting units, tractors and ploughs, road…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmer Comp. to Allan Ingram
Master Allan Ingran, of Dubbo, won first prize of £2/2/- in the recent vegetable garden competition conducted by the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Good Save by Three Men in Blazing Wheat Paddock
Three men were near exhaustion when a bush fire brigade arrived to extinguish a fire which the men had fought in…
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A survey shows that the Trangie district alone lost over 100,000 sent in the bush fire, with something over 15,000…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Treatment for Wheat Engorgement in Horses
Harvest time usually brings reports of valuable horses dying, or being unable to work for some time, through…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →No Wheat Trucks For Peak Hill
The Peak Hill [?]llos closed on Tuesday when 285,000 bushels had crammed them to capacity. Some farmers are delivering bagged wheat to the stacks at the rate of 800 bags a day, while others are carting in bulk to Parkes to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →735 Railway Trucks Needed to Move Wheat From Dubbo Bottlenecks Cause Serious Position As Grain Pours In From The Farms
District silo officials have ordered more than 735 railway trucks for this week in an effort to relieve the serious congestion at most western wheat silos…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Trucks Situation To Be Reviews To-day
A promise that he would do his best to leave bulk wheat trucks [?] to the west was [?] yesterday afternoon…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Values Firm At Two Wool Sales SYDNEY
Values remained linn at the Sydney and Melbourne wool sales yesterday. In Sydney 14,019 bales were…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Linseed Seen As Serious Rival to Wheat Sydney
Linseed production in the North-Western districts of New South Wales, could be a serious competitor to wheat, NSW…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Big Stock and Fence Losses in Disastrous Bush Fire Thousands of Sheep Killed To End Their Suffering Loss May Be £500,000
[?] of leaders in the bush fire that [?] in the Trangie [?] and swept throught [?] the [?] district show that the [?] loss to the [?] be [?] Knows [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Girl Junior Farmer for Trip Abroad Sydney
Miss Felicity Marlon Gowing, 22, of "Hampden Hall," Kempsey, will leave Australia on January 14 for a tour of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →More Members Wanted for Peak Hill Junior Farmers
An appeal is to be made for more support, for the work of the Peak Hill Junior Farmers' Club…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Over His Eyes
This Dorset Horn ram was uncertain of his future at the sale of registered sheep at Newmarket recently. He could…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Chaos at Congested Silos Threatens the Safety of Wheat Crop Bulk Handling Has Been Complete Failure Says F. And S. Official
Chaotic congestion at silos and bulkheads throughout western NSW had struck a serious blow to the already staggering wheat industry, the president of the Terramungamine Farmers and Settlers'…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Big Wool Firm Scouts the Synthetics Claim
The extreme claims made regarding the probable effects of synthetic fibres on the use of wool are not new, state Winchcombe Garson in their weekly report. They were made 30 years ago when rayon…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Market at Newcastle and Melbourne the Weather Sydney
Competition was keen on the first day of the fourth series of Newcastle wool sales yesterday and prices were fully The maximum temperature at the Dubbo Post Office yesterday was 89 degrees and the minimum, 62 degrees…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmers As Guests at Royal Show Sydney
Coinolding with the silver Jubilee of the formation at Glen Innes in 1928 of the first Junior Farmers Club…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farmers Graziers’ Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers Cooperative Grain Insurance and Agency Company Limited [?] December.1952…
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