Muswellbrook Cattle Market. Edward Higgens, Parkinson
& CO report having yarded about 1500 cattle and 1,000 sheep on Tuesday, 17th instant, to a large attendance of buyers and good competition…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1920
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Export of Butter. Statement by the Minister
Replying to representations from a meeting of dairymen held in Lismore, Mr. Massy Greene, Minister for Customs, states the Government will not entertain any proposal for…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Carriage of Sheep. Use of Open Trucks
In consequence of the shortage of stock trucks, sheep have frequently during the past few months been convoyed in open trucks. On occaslons there have been…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wheat Pool Losses. Board of Assessment Appointed
The personnel of the board which is to take evidence and assess the share of the Government's responsibility in connection with the loss in the 1916-17 and 1917-18 wheat pools is…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Flour Supply. Increase of Wheat Imports
The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Ashford) states that the wheat deliveries from Victoria durning the past fortnight have averaged, approximately, 7000 bags per…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →London Wool Sales. Best Grades Sell Freely
The chairman of the Central Wool Committee has received the following cable from London:- Sales opened February 9. United States…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Butter Price. Reason for the Increase. (By Telegraph.) Sydney
The Butter Pool Committee's reason for the increase in the local price is that it is so much below the London, parity, owing to the paucity of the export…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Challenge Accepted. Georgeson's State of Health. Wheat for Japan
Mr. Holman, State Premier, has, taken up the challenge made by Mr. John Storey for an independent medical examination of Mr. Geo[?]geson, whose state of health…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sale of Bolwarra Farm
In connection with the sale of a farm at Bolwarra, recorded in our columas a few days ago, Messrs Elias Bowden and J. Pryke desire us to state that the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Crop Prospects
Orchardists have good prospects for their coming citrus fruit crops, states Mr. L. J. Smith, fruit inspector, who has just returned from a tour of this district on the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral. Handling of Sheepskins. Waste Through Carelessness
"Perhaps only those Intimately connected with the skin trade can be fully sensible of the loss that occurs annually in this State through the indifferent treatment and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Pool. Position of the States
The bank overdraft of the Australian Wheat Board stood at £862,000 on February 16. The amount a week previously was £422,000. Victoria on February 16 had a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day's Telegrams Big Rise in Butter. Sydney
Both retailers and consumers expressed considerable dissatisfaction at the big rise in the price of butter, which came into operation this morning…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Increase. 2½d Per Lb From To-day
The Commonwealth Prices Commissioner issued instructions on saturday fixing the price for butter in the metropolitan areas of the various States as follow:—…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Price of Butter. Reason for Increase. Melbourne
It has been decided to increase the wholesale price of butter to 1s 9½d a lb., and there will consequently be a similar increase of at…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Critics on Wool Profits. Loss on American Purchases
Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report.— Reputed fabulous profits secured on re-sold Government wools…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sale of Dairy Herd
Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., Singleton, and O. K. Young, West Maitland, auctioneers, in conjunction, report having held a successful clearing-out sale of the whole of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers' Produce Markets. Sussex-street Sales. Sydney
In Sussex-street to-day, maize sold at 10/3 to 10/6 per bushel. Potatoes, 23 per ton. Chaff, £9/6/ per ton. Millet, £30 to £73 per ton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Primary Producers' Union. Next Season's Butter Output
The president (Mr. C. J. McRae) writes:—Factories have been advised both by the State Committee of the Dairy Produce Pool and by myself, but more publicity is…
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