Butter Dearer Advance of Halfpenny
The Stabilisation Committed decided on Saturday to advance the price of butter [?]0½ per lb, the increased rates to take effect from to-day. Choicest…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1928
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Trade Review Huge Transaction in Britain. Strong Wool Position. LONDON, March 24
The Stock Exchange has just completed the settlement of what is generally accepted as one of the largest, if not the largest, account in its…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Pastoral. Sheep Classing. An Important Operation even with the Smallest Flocks
Sheep classing—the operation of grading the breeding flock and selecting the sires for use in mating, with the object of gradually raising the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Quality Never Better
"Our butter quality was never better," said Mr. L. T. MacInnes, State Dairy Expert, on Monday. This, despite the recent adverse climatic…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →New Zealand Butter Output
Though New Zealand suffered the effects of drought conditions in January and February, so prolific was the early season production that on the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →New Co-operative Butter Factory
The dairy farmers of the Albury district are to have the opportunity of supporting co-operative manufacture. An up-to-date butter factory has been…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →On Farm and Station. Agricultural. Sowing of Lucerne. Use of the Wheat Drill
Farmers generally prefer to broadcast lucerne seed where the area is small, but sowing through the grass seed attachment of the wheat drill is a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Industry Graziers' Association Conference President's Address. SYDNEY
In his presidential address to the Graziers' Association conference, Sir G. Waddell said that though the seasonal…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Ballast Rather Than Wheat Shipping Agents Choice
Is it more profitable for oversea vessels to travel 6000 miles in ballast than to load wheat at Australian ports? Oversea shipping agents do not…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Denman Dairy Co. Half-yearly Meeting
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Denman Dairy Co., Ltd., was held at the Memorial Hall on Friday last. Mr..H. White…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Canadian Dairy Production
Canada being a possible regular customer for butter during Australia's flush period, the dairy production position in that country is of interest…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmer Commits Suicide Feared Wife's Death
Arthur John Paull, aged 56, a wellknown Hawkesbury farmer, after being told by a doctor that his wife was desperately ill and that he must prepare…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Methylene-blue Test Its Advantages to Dairymen
The following address was delivered by Mr, J. A. Watson, of the Singleton Central Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd., to the Agricultural Bureau, at the Shire…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Graziers' Conference. Wool Market Quotes. New System Adopted. Sydney
At the Graziers' Conference to-day. Mr. K. P. Wright, of Tamworth, declared the present system of quoting the rise fall in the wool…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Box Trials
An interesting experiment in the made at the State Government cool stores, reports the "Age," Melbourne, packing of export butter has just been…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Displacing Sheep the Rabbit Curse
Some vigorous points were made by Mr W. P. Bluett, a Queanbeyan grazier, at the annual conference of Stock Inspectors on Tuesday, in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Standstill. Sydney Wheat Market
The Sydney wheat market was practically at a standstill on Wednesday. Shippers were not operating. Millers have sufficient grain for…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Milk Weed Kills Sheep 300 Found Dead
Mr T. Sanderson, of Ariah Park, suffered a severe loss when he removed 1000 sheep from one paddock to anothor. On the following day he found 100…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prices Unchanged London Wool Market. London, March 28
At the woolsalcs 7928 bales were offered of which 5122 were Australian. A medium offering of merinos, Principally super spinners, and a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Denman. Dairy Factory Meeting, Satisfactory Half-year
The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Denman Dairy. Co., Lid., was held at the Memorial Hall Mr. H. H. White, chairman of…
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