Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

2,506 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 3 of 126

Increasing Use of Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 1

"As synthetic wool is at present still in the experimental stage, and its production quite in its infancy, it would be foolish for anyone…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Sheep for Russia. a £50,000 Purchase

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 4

According to an American official report, representatives of the Soviet Commissariat of Agriculture, before their departure from the United…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Artificial Wool. Experiments in Italy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 6

From an American source the Commonwealth Department of Markets and Munition and received a report concerning artificial wool experiments…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Record Half Year Wool Turnover

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 4

Wool selling has been a dead letter during the past week. The trade is in recess, and full advantage is being taken of the spell. Sydney auctions resume on…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 3

These notes are issued every week by direction of the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

German Wool Sales. Trade Generally Healthy

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report 30th December:— On several occasions of late the consistency of German wool…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

World's Wheat. Momentous Conferences Planned. Vancouver. Jan. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 5

In Washington an announcement of the National Council of Co-operatives made on Wednesday says that plans for a conference in February of all…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Wool Research. Two Important Awards. London, Jan. 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 5

The worshipful Company of Wool-men has awarded its gold medal to Professor James Cossar Ewart, of Edinburgh University, for research…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Artificial Wool. the New Process. Effect on Australian Trade Brokers Unperturbed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 1

The possibility that the invention of a successful process for the manufacture of artificial wool may detrimentally affect the sale of the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Farmers' Markets. Sussex Street Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 5

To-day's quotations in Sussex street were: Butter, 108/; eggs, new laid 1/4, rails and rivers 1/6 cheese, local large 9d to [?] to 10d, honey…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Tweed Sugar Crops

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 4

The C.S.R. Co's Condong sugar mills have ceased for the 1925 season. Owing to the heavy tonnage received this season and the wet conditions applying during the…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Farmers' Home Lodge

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 3

The annual reunion of the Farmers' Home Lodge, and a presentation to Bro. Geo. King, who had been a member for 50 years, and filled the position of…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Manning Dairying

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 2

Supplies to the Manning River Dairy Co. for November cream were paid at the rate of 1/2½d for choicest butter and 1/1½ for second class, with a gross turnover of…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Tragedy on Roadside. a Farmer Arrested

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 2

Charles Wilson, aged 49, farmer, of Goonoo Goonoo Road, hear Tamworth, was charged at Tamworth late on Monday night with…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Dairying. Work on the Dairy the Importance of Clean-liness

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 3

It is perhaps a truism to say that cleanliness is of first importance in dairying. There are still many dairymen, however, who fail…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Those Dairy Utensils. Dirt As a Detriment to Profit

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 3

"From 75 to 80 per cent, of the trouble in connection with second grade cream in this district comes from the faulty washing of the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Notes and Comments Tour by British Farmers

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 12

The success of the recent visit to Britain by a targe party of tanners from South Africa has led to the completion of arrangements for a similar…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

A Prince's Pig Farm

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 8 January 1926 · page 7

The Queen of Spain is described as "one of the most decorative queens in Europe." The Queen, though an English-woman, a daughter of Princess…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

Synthetic Wool

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 4

The world's wool consumption has overtaken its production.—this is an incontrovertible statement announced by probably the greatest living…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Melbourne Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 January 1926 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Limited's report:—Demand was keen and general at this week's opening Melbourne wool sales. Yorkshire, American and…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →