Prizes: 1955 F.& S. Dairy Competition
The full list of prize-winners in this year's Farmer and Settler Dairy Farm Competition appears below. The prizewinning…
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1,424 stories in Sydney's papers · page 63 of 72
CROPS Riverina Boom In Pasture Hay
More landholders in the Riverina are thinking of making pasture hay this year than ever before, Mr. E. Tindale, district agronomist at Wagga, said recently. He said pasture hay…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →'Revolution' In Farm Management In Recent Years
A revolutionary change had taken place in farm management in recent years, Mr. G. Nicholson, acting principal agronomist (extension) of the Department of Agriculture, said this week…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Junior Farmer News by Corncob Move To Oust "Elders" From Annual Talks
A resolution was passed at the Southern Tablelands Lilac Time Conference last week that the annual conference held in Sydney be replaced by a special Junior Farmers' Conference…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Won Bank Of N.S.W. Junior Farmer Contest
Stanley Newland, of Homeleigh, Hall, A.C.T., has been awarded first prize in the Bank Of New South Wales Junior Farmer Contest…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Many Potato Crops Dry
Good September rain relieved early potato crops in the Clarence and Kempsey districts…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Learning to Be Farmers
Young pupils of the Lingfield Secondary School, Surrey, are now bring taught farming as an extra subject in the school curriculum. On the modern school farm the lessons are proving extremely popular. This is because many of the pupils amb[?]ons [?] come farmers after they leave [?] One…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crisis in the dairy industry
THE termination of the butter sales agreement with Britain at the end of last June brought…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Strong Vales In Big Sheep Sales; Cattle Tend To Ease
With principal markets again centred in the C.W., S.W. and S. Riverina, store sheep trading has expanded, with heavy auction clearances at strong values. Dalgety's Riverina,…
Continued on Trove, page 45 →CROPS Disease, "Transport Chaos": Qld. Wheat Threat
BRISBANE.—Disease threatens to cut Queensland's total wheat yield this season by as much as 10 per cent., according to the Queensland Grain Growers' Association president, Mr. S. O. Cowlishaw…
Continued on Trove, page 34 →Big U.S. Beef Cattle Deal
A Kansas City lumberman now owns the largest herd of registered Abfirrieen-Aneus…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →More Q'land Cattle For Philippines
CAIRNS.—Three hun-dred head of Hereford cattle from the Gladstone and…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Australian's Work On Fat-Tailed Sheep
An expert from Australia is devoting himself to improving the wool yield of the fat-tailed sheep, which is common from North Africa to India…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →New G'wealth Wool Adviser
Mr. Ewan Waterman is to represent the Commonwealth Government on the…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Wet Wool A Fly Target
When heavily woolled sheep become soaked with rain at this time of year, watch out for…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Canadian Wheat Harvest Completed: High Yields
Wheat harvesting has been satisfactorily completed in Canada and yields are high, reports the manager of the Westralian Farmers' Co-operative Ltd., Mr. Braine…
Continued on Trove, page 35 →Complaints Over Poor Quality Bulk Wheat
There had been repeated recent complaints about the condition of bulk wheat being delivered to produce merchants, the assistant secretary of Associated Poultry Farmers of Australia, Mrs. G. D. Wilkie, said this week…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →SHEEP U.K. Credit Squeeze Causes Depression Fears
Progress of the credit squeeze in U.K. is now causing apprehension of a trade depression, Dalgety's Bradford correspondent cabled this week. A new wave of price…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Credit Scheme Before Govt: Wheat Export Drive
CANBERRA: The possibility of setting up an export credit guarantee corporation similar to those in other countries was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →More Trained Wheat Men Urged For Victoria
MELBOURNE.—Wheat growers and flour millers hare told the Victorian Premier, Mr. H. E. Bolte, that they are worried about the low protein content of Victorian wheat…
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