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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1950

7,889 stories in Sydney's papers · page 77 of 250

Heavy Summer Rain May Result In Wheat Acreage Decline Cereal Specialist's Analysis HEAVY summer rains are not necessarily the harbinger of high yielding cereal crops

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 21

This is stated by Mr. G. Nicholson, cereal specialist of the Department of Agriculture, in his monthly report on N.S.W. crop conditions…

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Delay On" Milk Price Draws Protest To Kelly From Dairy Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 2

A PROTEST against the delay in announcing the autumn-winter price for milk has been made to the N.S.W. Minister for Health (Mr. Kelly) by the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council…

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Lovers Of Good Cattle Will Find Great Scope In Poll Shorthorns

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 35

MANY sureties are available in the breeding of stud cattle, more particularly if they cover Poll Shorthorns as their subject. They include type improvement, prepotence developed, and those lessons learned by the ages of man through countless…

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Wool Cheque Up 30 p.c. To £85.9m

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 6

Value of wool sold in Australia in the first eight months of the current season was £185,985,439, an increase of…

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All-Time State Record At S.A. Wool Sales

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 21

ADELAIDE.—A new all-time South Australian record of 11 4d. was paid for four bales of 64's full warp at the last Adelaide wool sales, where beat Merino fleeces sold to 10 per cent. better than at the previous sale…

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Must Resist Threat To Our Market For Wheat In Japan

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 3

AUSTRALIAN wheatgrowers' organisations should resist the present move by the United States and Canada to give Japan a quota under the International Wheat Agreement, with the bulk of the quota being…

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Saturday, April 1, Opening Cattle Judging Day At The Sydney Royal Show

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 18

JUDGING of beef cattle will commence at the Sydney Royal Show on Saturday, April 1, the opening day of the Show. Shorthorns. Herefords, Devons and Aberdeen Angus breeds will be…

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Cattle Wagons for Re-stocking Railway Ban on Orders Until After Easter

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 6

THE Railways have announced that orders for cattle wagons under re-stocking conditions cannot be accepted until after the…

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Germany in, Japan out of Wheat Pact Clash Over Aust. Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 2

LONDON, Thurs. (A.A.P.).--The International Wheat Council yesterday admitted Germany to the International Wheat Agreement, but…

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Flour Control May Be Abandoned Export Trade Falling Wheat Is Preferred

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 9

The Australian export flour trade, now controlled by the Australian Wheat Board, may be handed back to the milling industry in the near future…

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Heavy Summer Rains May Cause Decline In N.S.W. Wheat Acreage

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 15

OVERALL effect of the summer rains would probably be a restriction of the wheat area, because of the additional cultivation necessary to prepare a seedbed, said the N.S.W. cereal specialist (Mr. G. Nicholson) yesterday…

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Will Polled Herds Dominate Our Beef Cattle Future? Graziers Can Advance Sound Arguments Against Horns

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 22

NEARLY every breeder of Poll Herefords has his own particular reasons why he prefers hornless heads on his whitefaces. He will be substantiated, too, in many cases by the grazier, who often will recite the very same argument in favor of heads without horns…

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Financial Editor S Round-up Firm London wool prices strengthen local Change

The Sun · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 21

The firm London wool market and sharp advance in Wall Street gave ah improved tone to the Sydney sharemarket. A wide range of shares made headway. Several new record levels…

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Improved Methods Necessary In Northern Cattle Country To Improve Carcases Better Bulls And Control Of Breeding

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 24

WITH the home and export requirements for a superior carcase in greatly increased quantities, it is essential that North Australian beef breeders implement systematic breeding schedules in an effort to meet the heavy demand on Australian beef. To obtain a beast possessing the…

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Board Chairman on Wheat Handling Problem Cullen at Northern Zone F.S.A. CONFERENCE

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 7

Bulk depots erected in Victoria by the Australian Wheat Board were not part of a storage system, but structures erected solely as holding depots to keep the wheat until it could be transported by rail…

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Star Letter of the Week Growers & New Wool Plan to the Editor of "The Land."

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 1

Sir,—Rapid strides are being made with a scheme for selling our wool, the scheme now nearing the stage of Government to Government…

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This Week's Dog Story the Blue Cattle Dog Was Left for Dead, But She Struggled Home Through 6 Miles of Water

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 23

TOUGHEST of most of Australia's working dogs in the outback is the old, tried and true blue cattle dog, and this story is sent along with emphasis on that point…

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Grower Attacks Wool Negotiations No Mandate From Producers Selling Scheme "Leg-In" For Socialist Control In The Future

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 4

RAPID strides are being made with a scheme for selling our wool, the scheme now nearing the stage of Government to Government negotiation. The mandate from the growers for this scheme is flimsy almost to the extent of being non-existents writes a correspondent who signs himself "Grower."…

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Bumper Yield from 5-Acre Tomato Crop

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 21

At Springfield, in the Gosford district, a 5-acre crop of Grosse Lisse and Red Cloud tomatoes is attracting widespread attention. Picking has…

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Farmers Want Improved Bulk Handling System F.s.a. Zone Conference Calls for Action

The Land · Friday 17 March 1950 · page 1

GNNEDAH. — Farmers' dissatisfaction with facilities lfr the handling and storage of bulk wheat in New South Wales was clearly indicated during discussions at the F.S.A. Northern Zone…

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