Sheep Trade Begins To Brighten; Young Beef In Demand
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 45
For top lines of selected sheep at Trangie, prices approximated those ruling at the close of last season, though generally average sheep sold reasonably low. fin the store cattle market, demand for early maturing beef is now being felt…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →Feeling Of Confidence Returns To Wool Markets
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 42
While this week's sales saw the wool market reach the best point of the current season, values are still well below those at which the last season closed. A wide and…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Lower Wool Values Will Boost Fat Lambs
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 3
The drop in wool values seen in the opening series of sales for the current season will give a definite stimulus to meat production and, in particular, fat lamb production…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Total N.S.W. Wheat Under 20m. Bushels
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 3
Total wheat in N.S.W. silos and bulkheads is at present below 20,000,000 bushels, a member of the Silo Board, Mr. Barwick, announced this week…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News From England Australians Shock British Dairy Farmers
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 18
Standards of hygiene in British dairy farming are very low compared with those in Australia, according to the spokesman for a party of 31 Australian farmers who are now visiting England…
Continued on Trove, page 18 →Complete Eradication Is Aim of Full-Scale War On Cattle Ticks
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 11
LISMORE.—On January 1, an army of 600 stockmen will begin an offensive which will seek to kill every cattle tick in 2000 square miles in northern Mew South Wales. This will start one of…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Japan To Buy More Australian Wool In Current Year
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 9
Japan is expected to buy 300,000 bales of Australian wool in the second half of her current financial year, following the latest decision of the Japanese Government. Her total imports of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Indian Cereal Crop Record
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 35
The production of cereals and the area under cultivation in India during 1953-54…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Week-end Magazine No Quick Fortunes In Farming In New Guinea
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 17
Featured regularly in the press are racily-written stories of farming possibilities in Papua and New Guinea. Itinerant correspondents report unlimited, cheap native labor, tropical soils bursting with…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Dairy Quotas
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 39
Butter and cheese quotas for October are: Butter 51.32 per cent, and cheese 32.20 per…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Figs Make Useful Q'ld Crop
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 31
Commercial fig growing in Queensland is confined mainly to the Brisbane area, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 31 →Dairy Factory Scholarship
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 6
Recently the North-umberland Branch of the Chamber of Manufacturers and a Meat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DAIRYING Ayrshire Tops Official Production List
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 6
A list of particulars of all pure-bred, registered dairy cows in N.S.W. production from which exceeded 500 lb. of butterfat between July 1, 1954, and June 30, 1955, has been issued by the N.S.W. Department of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Winner Of Farm And Fodder Camp
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 35
INVERELL.—Trafalgar, a property at Gum Plat, near Inverell, won the award in the…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →What the Farmer Wants to Know "Can Infertility be beaten?"
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 43
"W. B." of Shepparton (Vic.) writes: "My herds have had a bad history of infertility—very low…
Continued on Trove, page 43 →Junior Farmer News by Corncob Young Farmers Press For Leadership Camps
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 27
A suggestion that National Leadership Camps be held independently of existing show camps was discussed at the biennial meeting of the Australian Council of Young Farmers…
Continued on Trove, page 27 →Dairy Co-Operatives' Big Milk Turnover
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 14
A total of 51,500,000 gallons of milk was handled by the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co. Ltd. during the year ended June 30, 1955…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →New Cover Crop For S.A. Fruit Growers
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 28
ADELAIDE.—After many unsuccessful attempts in South Australia to establish the W.A. blue lupin, Mr. A. T. Howard, orchardist at Blewett Springs, south, of…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Why Bean Crops Fail On Acid Soils
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 28
Beans grown on excessively acid soils do not produce heavy yields, podding is poor and returns may not repay the grower. Acidity should be…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Support For Dairymen From Q'ld Opposition
The Farmer and Settler · Friday 7 October 1955 · page 12
BRISBANE.—The dairying industry's plea for a better Commonwealth Government deal on butter will have Queensland Liberal and Country Party support…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →