Commercial Special Dairy Cattle Sale Grainger and Falkiner'S Ltd. Report
We conducted, a very successful special dairy cattle sale on Friday last, 81st inst. The number yarded was heavy, and there was a splendid…
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Farming & the land, 1926
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Dairying Marks of Dairy Temperament. Features to Look For
The expression "dairy temperament" has been used to name one of the dairy characteristics of a cow (writes Prof. G. C. Humphrey…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DISMISSED Assault Charge Against Farmer Serious Counter-charge Raised
Before Mr. M.H. Cleeve, P.M. at the Cessnock Police Court yesterday, Melville Snape, farmer, of Mount View, was charged with unlawfully…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Imports. United States Growers Protest
Advices from the United States indicate that wool-growers are strongly protesting against the heavy importations from Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Homebush Sales. Sheep Cheaper Prime Cattle Firm. Sydney
Winchcombe Carson Ltd, report cattle: 3700 yarded, the buk medium to useful. Market opened cheaper, except for prime beef. Good to prime…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter for Export. Commonwealth Gradings
During the week ended May 22 the Commonwealth graders examined for export at Sydney 7181 boxes of butter of which 7100 were salted and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Import Duty on Butter an Important Recommendation
At a meeting of the Central Hunter District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, which was formed at the offices of Singleton Central…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Market. No Alteration in Sydney
There was no alteration in the Sydney wheat position yesterday. Buyers' limits for bagged wheat were still on the basis of 5/8 to the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales
Medium quality forage was practically unsaleable at the Alexandria saleyards. A good inquiry was made for choice fodder, in the grain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle and Sheep Sale at Muswellbrook
Messrs. Swaddling and Maynard will hold a cattle and sheep sale at Muswellbrook on Friday, 4th. June at 2 p.m. Three hundred mixed cattle,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool
Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report: inclusive of the wool held over from last season, just over a million bales have been handled in…
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At a meeting of the Central Hunter District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, which was formed at a meeting in Singleton on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Heavy Losses of Sheep
Authentic figures made available in Queensland disclose that up to the present time 7,000,000 sheep have died in the Central Western portion…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Market. Business Practically at Standstill
No change occurred yesterday in the local wheat position, buyers limits for bagged being on the basis of 5/8 in the country and 6/3 ex…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land
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 →Patterson Butter Plan. Compelled by High Tariffs. Necessity Explained
Admittedly the paterson butter plan increases the price paid for butter by the Australian consumer. That was its object, its justification being in the fact that it…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Rotation Crops and Fat Lambs. a Farmer at Young Bureau Conference
"Up to five years ago, my opinion was that from the stock-raising point of view the land could not be spared for fallow. Now, the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farming and Grazing Property for Sale
Messrs. Higgens, Parkinson and Co. (Denman), will sell at Denman on Friday, 25th June, 1926. account estate late G. H. Hewitt, property…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales
Choice forage was in good demand at the Alexandria saleyards. Medium quality was dragging. In the grain section wheat continued firm at 6/10…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Market. Prescott's Weekly Review
Present, Ltd., report that butter production continues to decline, the shrinkage on the week being about at 19[?]4 per cwt. Arrivals were…
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