Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales
Lucerne commodities eased slightly at the Alexandria forage saleyards an exceptionally keen demand prevailed for choice oaten bay, Straw…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1927
3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 151
General News Dairyman's Unenviable Experience
An Orange dairyman had a unique and at the same time unenviable experience last week-end. He was delivering a pig to a butcher, when…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Butter Record. Guernsey Cows Yield
A butter production record for the Guernsey breed in Australasia has been established, in a nine months' test completed on January 18 last,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Singleton Letter. Butter and Milk
The Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured 105 tons of butter and consigned 159,674 gallons of milk to Sydney during…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Denman. Heavy Storm Damage. Cattle Sale
A storm, which broke over the town on Friday night, resulted in 148 points being registered at the Post Office to 9 a.m. on Saturday,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Flour Reduced. Wheat Market Unchanged
The Sydney wheat market yesterday presented no change. Shippers and millers were still offering 4/7½ to the grower, equivalent to 5/3…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Commercial. Wool Auctions
Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd., report: Three days' sales last week completed the second round of auctions of the new year, and it is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Spirited Demand
The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., writes:— The eleventh round of sales in the Sydney market concluded on the 19th…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Low Prices. Wheat Held Up. Young
Because of the low prices ruling, 4/8 at the country station and 4/6 at the silos, growers are holding back their wheat, in the hope that the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pastoral. Our Wool. Reply to Critics
Mr. Hollings, Bradford wool corresponded of many papers throughout the Empire, remarked in a Bradford address that the Australian wool clip had,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep History
On the little island of Soay, which is situated near St. Kilda, off the west coast of Scotland, survives a breed of sheep, taking its name from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Shetland Sheep
Shetland sheep, according to a Scottish woollen manufacturer, are owned by the islanders in flocks of 25 to 50. Thefr food consists chiefly of the sea…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Butter Tariff Increase
Mr. Patrick Grant, president of the Primary Producers' Union, writes with regard to references in the New Zealand "Daily Produce Exporter,"…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wool. Spirited Demand
The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Company writes:—The eleventh round of sales in the Sydney market concluded on the 19th…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Producers Distributing Society Butter Outlook
There is no primary industry so quickly affected by seasonable conditions' as dairying. It is largely a "gamble upon the weather," but then practically all primary…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Shortage. Fatteners Seeking Supplies
There is a marked shortage of cattle in this and other districts. What is the reason for the shortage? A local gentleman who knows the position…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle Breeding. Like Begets Like
The strong family resemblance which is seen both in the human species and amongst animals related to each other is a direct consequence of the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Harvest. Fifty Million Bushels
A preliminary estimate of the wheat harvest in New South Wales for the current season is given at 16,741,000 bags, equivalent to 50,223,000 bushels…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory December Figures
The butter manufactured for December was 28 ton, 12 cwt 35 lbs, and the milk supplied 75,198 gallons—a total pay to suppliers of…
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