Dairy Produce in Britain. Optimistic Note
Mr. Dynes Fulton, deputy chairman of the New Zealand Dairy Produce Control Board, and chairman of directors of the New Zealand…
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Farming & the land, 1934
2,897 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 79 of 145
PASTORAL Kikuyu Grass
Because of its smothering effect on all other plants in a pasture, kikuyu grass has been found of considerable value in the control of bracken fern…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Field Farm & Dairy Agricultural The Maize Crop
No amount of after cultivation can make up for insu[?]cient preparation of the sell for maize and the land should be given a deep ploughing in…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Butter Prices Mr. Dunlop's Address EQUALISATION
The abolition of interstate, market raiding and local price-cutting and the maintenance of a local price of 140/ per cwt., despite the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →DAIRYING The Farmer's Part
There should be only one grade of dairy product namely, "choicest," and the attainment of this ideal largely depended upon cleanliness and good…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Nelson's Plains Weather Helps Farmers. Spring Sowing Melson's Plains
After a prolonged spell of showery weather a welcome change to [?] conditions has taken place The long overdue westerly winds have arrived…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Links with Early Days Extracts From "Mercury" Files Hunter Valley History Value of the Tallow Trade—Stockton Tweed Factory Kept Busy—Englishmen. Throw Out Cricket Challenge— Stock Sales Established in Maitland—Overlanding Cattle from. Port Phillip to Adelaide. The Tallow Trade
We feel bound to call the attention of our stockholders to a point of some importance in connection with our new export, and which is likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sheep Firmer Sales at Homebush Cattle Unaltered Sydney
Winchc[?]mbe, Carson, Limited report: 1820 cattle yarded. The market was unchanged Good to prime beef made 23/ to 28/ hundred lbs., yearling…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commercial Singleton Markets. Special Dairy Cattle Sale
Grainger and Falkiner Ltd. report having conducted a special sale of dairy cattle on Friday last. The yarding" was not as heavy as at the usual…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Report
The farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy. reports on the 20th instant:— Matters continue quiet in local wool circles, and all interested in the Trade…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →235 PERISH U.S. Heat Wave Crops Damaged San Francisco, July 22
The persistent heat wave throughout Saturday claimed 106 lives, while the damage to the nation's crop fields amounted to millions of dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sapphire in Fowl's Crop
Calcutta, Saturday.—A woman in Tharrawaddy district (Burma) bought a fowl in the bazaar, and When dressing it for dinner she found a green stone in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Butter Serious Competitor Factory View Sydney
"Farm butter is becoming a serious competitor in New South Wales, and I understand that the number of farms making butter is…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy. reports on the 20th. instant:— Matters continue quiet in local wool…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Wool Market
Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., report: Since our last report London sales have terminated, and it is gratifying to note, according to cables,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →SINGLETON Pastoral Conditions Board Meets Singleton
The stock Inspector (Mr. W. K. Goodsir), in his reports to the Pastures Protection Board, stated that the pastoral and agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Supplies Depletion of Reserves Demand Good
Prescott, Ltd., in their weekly butter circular, report that in the majority of dairying districts output continues to steadily shrink and cold…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dehorning of Cattle. Experience in Other States
The newly-formed Cattle Council of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales has Interested itself in the subject of dehorning cattle, and…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Butter Scheme Equalisation Plan Strong Advocacy Sydney
"The underlying principle of an equalisation policy such as that to be carried out by the Equalisation Committee is to remove the…
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