The Week in Wool Crucial U.s. Tariff Decision This Week
The curtain fell this week on the first half of the second richest wool season in Australian…
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Farming & the land, 1953
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R.A.S. Wheat Competition
Baldry farmers, Messrs A. E. Barber and Sons, of "Emrose," gained second placing in the Central Slopes…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sheep Bog Trials at Royal Show Sydney
First sheep-dog trials at a Sydney Royal Show since 1940 will be a main arena night feature at next year's show…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Four Farming Schools for Juniors
Next year would be u busy one for junior fanners' schools of instruction, the Junior Farmers' Clubs' District Supervisor…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peak Hill Junior "Star" Farmer Of Western District
More than 200 junior farmers gathered at Peak Hill to see Peak Hill Club Leader (Mr. Bill Hando) receive a presentation as the Western Districts "Star" Junior Farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dubbo Farmer on Bond for Driving Charge
John Henry Hockey; farmer and grazier, of Obley Road, Dubbo, was placed on a £50, two year bond by Mr, Spence, SM, at…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wide Demand For Wool
A most encouraging feature on the wool season in Australia for the first half of the selling period has been the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Wheat to Be Delivered
Receivals of wheat at Narromine silos have again been hold up because of the lack of railway bulk trucks. The to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sub. Clover Sown with Wheat
Farmers who intend to establish lucerne or subterranean clover pastures by joint sowing with wheat should choose an…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Only 12, But Grew 70 Acres Of Wheat On His Own SYDNEY
A 12-years-old machine-minded Coonabarabran district boy has tractor ploughed and combined 70 acres of wheat on his own at his father's 1700-acre wheat farm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Threat to Wool by Synthetics
In the past few years, competition facing wool from synthetic fibres has increased considerably, particularly…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool and Stock Firm Expands
Younghusband Limited announce the purchase of the old established business of. L. A. Fairbairn and Co., as from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Damage to Bridges By Wheat Carters
Requests for [?] to bridges, crossings and [?] has been a source of [?] to the Coonabarabran Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Wool Values at 1953 Sales Pleased Grazierrs
Values in the 1953-54 wool selling season have been regarded as satisfactory, says Pitt, Son and Badgery. All sections of the industry have expressed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Flocks Australian and United States Comparisons
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report: In his address to the Annual Meeting of the Boston Wool Federation, the President,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wild Ducks Attack Rice Crops
Wild ducks aye causing losses to rice crops along the Murray, Mr. R. C. Hood, district…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat For Feeding Sheep SYDNEY
The Australian Wheat Board is making wheat available for sheep feed because of the urgent need for feed caused by…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Crop Smaller Than Last Season Canberra
The Australian wheat crop would be about 11 per cent smaller than last season, the Acting Commonwealth…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →World Wool Consumption Increases
In the absence of wool auctions in all selling centres of the Commonwealth comparative quietness lias prevailed in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →More Wheat Still to Be Delivered
The manager of the Peak mill silo, Mr. Dillon, does not inspect any more trucks until after the holidays. [?]…
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