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Farming & the land, 1955

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Harder Tendency In Sheep Rates: Cattle Values Firm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 37

Store stock auction sales showed some hardening tendency in sheep values, but in many cases buyers took a waiting attitude and vendors were still asking high prices. A spokesman for…

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Beef Cattle Returns Still Encourage Beef Cattle Ventures

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 8

Getting started in beef is not as easy as it sounds, but once the effort has been made the financial returns justify the enterprise, provided the principles of correct management are followed…

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New Wool Judge Named

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 6

Mr. W. H. Ingrey, of Grenfell, N.S.W., has been appointed to judge the medium wool section of the 1955 Sydney Annual Sheep Show…

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Zebu Crosses For Cairns Cattle Sale

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 9

CAIRNS.—Zebu blood appeared in cattle offered at this weeks beef cattle sale at Cairns, the second in the history of the city. For the present sale…

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Queensland Wheat Sets High Standard

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 25

BRISBANE.—No criticism of Australian wheat quality could be levelled against Queensland-produced grain, according to the Queensland Agriculture Department's…

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SHEEP. Merino Ewe Competition. Has Marked Effect On Industry

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 6

It is not possible to estimate the effect the Farmer and Settler Merino Ewe Competition has had on the production of better wool and heavier clips…

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Sheep To 5/- Cheaper At Homebush Vealers 3 To £4 Lower

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 36

Heavy lambs and plainer sheep were irregular and up to 5/ a head cheaper at Homebush yesterday, when an increased yarding was offered. The market for cattle generally declined by £1 to £2, and rates for vealers were £3 to £4 lower…

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McEwen Tells House: 'No Govt. Interference In Wool Bureau Affairs'

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 1

CANBERRA.— The Commonwealth Government had never interfered in the affairs of the Australian Wool Bureau, the Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. McEwan, told the House of Representatives this week. He was replying to…

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Dairy Identity Dead

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 1

Mr. W. A. Murphy, sales director of the Nightingale Supply Co. Ltd., died on…

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Market Garden Profitable spring Crops Can Be Started Now

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 25

Many vegetable growers specialise in spring crops such as tomatoes, cucumbers, marrows and watermelons. The usual practice is to start the plants under cover during the late autumn or winter and set them out as…

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Only 10 Days To Enter F. And S. Dairy Contest

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 4

Last week the closing date of entries for the Farmer and Settler Dairy Farm Competition was extended to Monday, May 16…

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DAIRYING Grants Prove Boost To Dairy Industry

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 4

In February, 1948, the Federal Government decided to make an annual grant of £250,000 over a five-year period to assist improved practice within the Australian dairying industry…

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Junior Farmers Did Well At Urbenville

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 31

KYOGLE.— District supervisor of the Junior Farmer Movement, Mr. John Piggott, who attended the recent Urbenville Show, said that he had been very pleased…

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State-wide Interest In Junior Farmer Project

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 31

MULLUMBIMBY.— State-wide interest has been shown in the farm management and improvement project organised by the Mullumbimby Junior Farmers'…

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Junior Farmer News by Corncob Banana Industry Facing Market Problems

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 31

LISMORE: To-day the banana industry faced a problem of marketing rather than production, and only men who were interested in growing the highest quality fruit could survive in the industry…

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Dairy Judging Close At Hawkesbury Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 3

Even quality in four breeds-Ayrshires, Jerseys, Friesians and A.B.S.—and good competition combined to provide an interesting display of dairy cattle at Hawkesbury Show last Friday…

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Farmers Worried Over Fruit Fly Menace

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 35

GRIFFITH: Both farmers and citizens attended a meeting in the Griffith R.S.L. Hall last Wednesday to discuss the serious situation which has been created by the outbreak of fruit fly…

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CROPS Growers Offer Help In Bid For Early Cane Harvest

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 12

LISMORE: Richmond district cane growers will offer to assist cane cutters in the early part of the 1955 season if the Colonial Sugar Refinery at Broad wafer will give a guarantee to commence crushing operations…

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New Dairy Equipment To Be Demonstrated

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 6 May 1955 · page 28

Methods of using the equipment designed for the re-circulating system of cleaning milking machines will soon be explained to Queensland dairy farmers by officers…

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Radio For Farm Tractors

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 11 May 1955 · page 19

A radio has been develop[?] for installation on farm [?]ctors. It is believed to be the…

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