Lower Ruling Price Boosts Use Of Wool
A Winchcombe, Garson spokesman said last week wool selling for many descriptions was now on its soundest basis for the new season…
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Steady Rise In N.Z. Wool Production
New Zealand's production of raw wool rose seven per cent, in 1954/55. This was disclosed recently by Mr. G. A. Duncan, Chairman of the New Zealand Wool…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →'55-6 Wool Yield To Be World Record?
Showing a 1½ per cent, increase on last season, world production of raw wool, at 4550 million pounds greasy, is expected to set a new world record in 1955/56…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Beef Cattle Unsettled Trade Outlook is Affecting U.K. Meat Prices
This week the London meat market reflected the disturbed economic outlook in the U.K., with meat in store and afloat making more money than similar meats selling on the floor…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →First Judging In R.A.S Wheat Competition. Western Division
Judging of the Western Division of the Royal Agricultural Society's 1955 championship wheat competition commenced at Mendooran on Monday. The west looks won-…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Buyers Unwilling To Force u ng To Market Values
The week's wool selling in Sydney has seen little alteration in the general outlook for the staple. It has, however, seen a somewhat better offering as a whole. It has also seen a…
Continued on Trove, page 42 →Farmers' Offences Bring Fines
At Wollongong Police Court on September 28 J. Jolliffee, a poultry farmer of Mt. Kembla,…
Continued on Trove, page 39 →Minster Meets Dairy Chiefs: Minister Meets Canberra Talks
The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture, Mr. McEwen, met dairy industry leaders for nearly three hours at Canberra on October 27. He said afterwards that not one disputed issue had emerged…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Output Trends Upward
Dairy production is increasing and is higher than for the corresponding period of last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Whole of Q'land Sugar Crop ar To Be Harvested
BRISBANE.—Production outlook was so good when the Q'ld sugar season began that the Bureau of Sugar Experiment Stations officially estimated, in June, that 600,000 tons of the 1955 crop exceeded demand and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Share Farming
J.McC., Tenterfield.—I intend to engage a share-farmer for a commercial vegetable growing…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Antibiotics Boost Farm Production
A new £3,250,000 antibiotic factory recently opened at Sandwich, in Kent, U.K., may save…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pasteurising Means Money To Dairymen
About 60,000 gallons of pasteurised milk are distributed daily in Q'ld towns. Not long…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm Hint Wins 10/6
This week, 10/6 goes to an Oberon reader for the following hint: Small glass jars are…
Continued on Trove, page 33 →Correction: Farm Layout Prize List
It is regretted that in last week's list of special prizes in the 1955 Farmer and Settler Dairy Farm…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New N.Z. Devices Help Dairymen
The far North Coast agricultural region has been flooded with so many requests from farmers for adjustments to milking machines that Government officers there…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Production Rise On N. Coast Farm
Production of butterfat on a North Coast dairy farm increased by 2290 1b. in 12 months…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →DAIRYING Graham Opens Dairy School At Hawkesbury
The dairying industry accounted for one third of the employees engaged in Australian primary production, the N.S.W. Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Graham, said at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, last Thursday…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →4H Movement Shows Members The Way To rs The Better Farming
Boys and girls on farms in the United States are learning to make their land more productive and their homes more comfortable and attractive, as part of the 4H Club plan for farm living…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →New Dairy School Opened at Hawkesbury
ABOVE: At Hawkesbury (I. to r.), Messrs. F. Bowe, manager N.S.W. Fresh Food and Ice Co., and C. M. Barker and C. Cannon, representing Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co. BELOW: Messrs. T. Scarr, president of Australian Institute of Dairy Technology; G. McGillivray, chief of Dairying Division, Dept. of Agriculture; E. H. Graham, Minister for Agriculture; H. R. Richardson, Principal of Hawkesbury…
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