Store Cattle In Demand, Stronger Inquiry For Sheep
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 45
Strong demand for store cattle of all descriptions and a strengthening demand for good sheep were the features of this week's store stock market. A return to normal trading in the northern part of the State since the floods, was reported by Sydney selling agents…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Near-Record Dairy Cattle Entry For Sydney "Royal"
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 7
Preparations are now almost completed for the dairying sections of the 1955 Sydney Royal Show, the R.A.S. registrar, Mr. H. N. Sarina, said this week. The chief of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →SHEEP Stud Sheep From Areas In Air Lift To Q'land
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 11
Stud sheep from flood-affected western N.S.W. studs are being transferred to Queensland until fences on their home runs have been restored. The first to go will be 1200 stud Merinos from Bundemar stud…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wool Sales Resume
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 42
Wool sales were resumed in Sydney on Wednesday after the industrial dispute in…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Leeton: Good Demand For Cattle
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 43
At the associated agents' sale at Leeton on Tuesday, 138 cattle were yarded and 121 sold. The quality was fair and demand good…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Ballot For Wool Blocks
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 11
Four woolgrowing blocks near Young were thrown open for application under the…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Pills Boost Wool Yield
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 11
Synthetic hormone pills administered to sheep in experimental work in New Zealand…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Why Aberdeen-Angus Cattle Are So Popular
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 35
Cattlemen will see 166 entries from leading Aberdeen-Angus studs at this year's Royal Easter Show. Mr. H. Gordon Munro, president of the Aberdeen-Angus Society, of Australia, outlines some facts…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Q'ld Butter Product For U.K. Army
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 14
BRISBANE.— A Brisbane butter product has been accepted by the British Army for…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →People and Paragraphs 2000 Sheep To The Acre
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 2
RECENTLY we published on our front page a remarkable aerial photograph of a Western…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Optimism On Wool Prospects For 1955
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 4
The wool consumption rate of leading countries was seven per cent, lower in the final quarter of 1954 than in the same quarter of 1953, according to an estimate…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Beef Cattle First Far N.C. Fat Steer Contest Successful
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 34
LISMORE.— The success of the first fat steer contest held on the Far North Coast last week would ensure that the competition would become an annual event, said the manager of the Northern Co-operative Meat Company…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Sheep To 5/- Lower At Homebush Bullocks, Cows To £2 Down
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 44
Values for sheep for the most part were easier to 5/ a head lower at Homebush yesterday, and rates for bullocks and cows were £1 to £2 lower, but other prime grades showed little material alteration. There was a slight…
Continued on Trove, page 44 →Deadline—- May 2: F. And S. Dairy Contest Attracts Wide Interest
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 5
Monday, May 2, is the deadline for entries for The Farmer and Settler Dairy Farm Competition which already shows signs of attracting greatly increased interest this year…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Many Farmers Using Tick Control Sprays
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 8
Instead of dips, many dairy farmers now use power sprays or bucket sprays to combat cattle ticks in their herds. Results have shown…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DAIRYING Good Quality In Castle Hill Show Entries
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 6
Over 200 cattle were exhibited at the Castle Hill show which opened in heavy rain last week. Quality was good and judges of Friesians, Jerseys, Ayrshires and A.I.S. found it difficult to award prizes…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmlets Available
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 12
Two Crown land farmlets at Wyee, near Gosford, will be open for application late in…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Junior Farmer News by Corncob Star Junior Farmer Farwelled On World Tour
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 28
Arthur Martin, Star Junior Farmer for 1954, who left on a round-the-world tour last week, has, with his father, achieved a remarkable increase in butter production during the last five years on their farm at Nimbin…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →CROPS Many Pastures Flourish After Flood Rain
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 32
The heavy flood rains were very beneficial to upland pastures on the middle rivers. The Taree agronomist, Mr. Noonan, said apart from flood damaged land, the whole countryside carries a splendid body of feed…
Continued on Trove, page 32 →Good Seed Maize Crops
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 25 March 1955 · page 31
Some excellent crops of late hybrid maize for certified seed are reported by the maize…
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