Interest In Premiums For High Quality Wheat
MELBOURNE.—A report by the Victorian Wheat Advisory Committee has revived interest in a proposal that wheat-growers should be paid premiums for…
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1955 Sydney Sheep Show And Sales Corriedale Demand Was Disappointing
The market, for Corriedales at the Sydney Sheep Sales last Monday was disappointing, and many lots were either passed in or in some cases even failed to attract bids…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Dogs in the News Numbers, Quality Up In Sheep Dog Trials
As far as dog folk were concerned, the main feature of the Sheep Show at the R.A.S. Showground on June 2, 3 and 4 was the Open Championship Sheep Dog Trial. This "trial of the year" has become almost…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Home and Fashion It Was A Well Dressed Sheep Show Week of Parties
There was nearly as much mink as wool at the official opening of the Sheep Show at the Sydney Show-ground on Friday. The Governor…
Continued on Trove, page 25 →1955 Sydney Sheep Show And Sales Many Records Broken At Sydney's Best Sales To Date
A Merino ram, from the Bundemar stud of the Estate of F. E. Body, sold at auction at the Sydney Sheep Sales on Wednesday for the world's record price of 6000 guineas. The new world's…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Week-end Magazine "Overlanding" Began With Joseph Hawdon And His Cattle Mobs Recalling the Pioneers NO.31—Joseph Hawdon
When 23-years-old Joseph Hawdon drove a herd of 300 cattle from the Murrumbidgee to Port Phillip in 1836 he started the business of "overlanding" live stock which continued for a century…
Continued on Trove, page 21 →Drainage On M.I.A. Farms
The Minister for Conservation, Mr. Enticknap, said recently that the drainage had now…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Seek Dairy Markets In S.E. Asia
CANBERRA.—The Government is anxious to do whatever it can within its scope to…
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J. R. W., Wiseman's Ferry.—Could you tell me what is the award wage for a nineteen year…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Junior Farmer News by Corncob Move To Speed Up J.F. Field Day Programme
LISMORE.—All judging at the annual Junior Farmer field day to be held at Wollongbar on June 23 will be completed before lunch in an effort to speed up the day's activities…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Q'Id. Industrial Court Rejects Farm Award
BRISBANE.—Queensland's Industrial Court has rejected an application for an award covering dairying, orchards, plantations, and the growing and harvesting of…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →DAIRYING Cowmanship Vital Factor In Milk Production
About 1600 people—dairy farmers and leaders of the dairying industry—assembled on Berry Showground, South Coast, last Friday, to hear an address by Dr. W. E. Petersen, Professor of Animal Husbandry at the…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Farm Tractor School at Hawkesbury
Farmers and their sons Interested in tractor operation and maintenance, and also farm tractor operations, have still…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Freak Sheep At Prospect Help Prospect Hel Wool Research
Three of the sheep in the animal house at the C.S.I.R.O's Sheep Biology Laboratory at Prospect, near Sydney, may provide scientists with clues of far-reaching importance to the wool industry…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Wheat Crop Prospects Are "Best For Years"
Wheat crop prospects over the State are now excellent, the cereal specialist, Mr. Walkden Brown, said recently. "Prospects are better…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SHEEP Ideal Weather At Opening Of Cootamundra's 25th Sheep Show
The grand champion Merino ewe at Cootamundra Sheep Show this week won the reserve grand championship at Sydney a fortnight previously. In both instances she…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Unclaimed Wheat Payments
The Australian Wheat Board is holding payments for wheat delivered into 17 Pool…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →Sown Pastures For More Sheep
At least 500,000 more sheep could be carried in Goodradigbee Shire if sown pastures were…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Canadian Wheat Sowings Delayed
Spring wheat seeding in Canada has been delayed because of rain, snow and cold weather. The manager of the…
Continued on Trove, page 29 →More Cattle Killing Facilities For Qld
BRISBANE.—A substantial increase in cattle killing facilities at the Brisbane Abattoir would result from a 30-butcher gang for which the Queensland Meat…
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