Beneficial Rain in North and North-west Farmers and Pastoralists Delighted
Steady, soaking rain fell throughout the North and North-west yesterday. It will moan thousands of pounds to wheatgrowers,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1937
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PASTORAL Plan Pasture Work
Planning for pasture improvement work was widely neglected throughout the State, and wan responsible for many failures, said tho Assistant…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cookery Class Let us Make Butter Biscuits
To half a pound of self-raising flour allow four ounces of butter and a good pinch of salt. Cut the butter into fairly small pieces and rub it into the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Diseased Cattle Condemnation and Compensation Health Inspector's Views
Prior to the introduction of the Pure Food Act, which renders a dairyman liable to conviction for selling the milk, of a diseased cow, if such a cow was found in his herd, the position was most unsatisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Field Farm & Dairy Agriculture Vegetable Weevil
The grubs of the vegetable weevil (Listroderes obliquus) occur during the winter and early spring, and, although they attack most vegetables…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DAIRYING Shelter for Dairy Stock
Where proper shelter is not provided for stock, not only is their resistance to disease reduced, but much food material is wasted in "warming…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Fairbridge Farm School
Additional subscriptions towards the appeal for £50,000 for the Fairbridge Farm School at Molong, which is now being prepared for the first…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Dairy Imports Into United Kingdom. Record for Butter
Statistics released by the Imperial Economic Committee show that the United Kingdom's butter imports for 1936 rose to the record total of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S.A. Wheat Crop Washington, July 25
The Department of Agriculture has announced that despite damage by black rust and drought the United States wheat crop will be the most…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Supplies Below Requirements Position Reviewed
Prescott Limited, report that the seasonal falling-off in production is now much more pronounced and arrivals are considerably below…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Market London Outlook Favourable LONDON, July 25
Butter is largely nominal at nigner prices, although the outlook seems favourable. Cheaper varieties of continental…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stock Sales Fat Cattle, Easier Pig Market Firm
Competition for fat cattle at Maitland yards to-day was irregular, and prices generally a shade easier. Competition for sheep was Irregular, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japanese Butter on London Market. Equal to Australian Second. Grade
Referring to the small shipment of Japanese butter received in Loudon, Mr W. Laffan, who was Commonwealthdairy officer in London for two and a…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Dairy Farmers Position (To the Editor.)
Sir,—In your paper of July 16th Mr Collard, in answer to a letter I wrote, says he cannot see why thousands of dairy farmers should be disappointed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Silage Being Tested for Show Cattle. Interesting Experiments at Maeranie Hereford Stud
Interesting experiments in fattening ,show cattle on settler, says "The Farmer and Settler," have been conducted at Mr Richard…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Missing Farmer Head Shattered with Gun ORANGE
The body of Cornelius Toiler, 61, a farmer, who had been missing for a week, was found on Sunday morning with the head partly shot away. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Australian Butter Competition on London Market
Mr. W. Laffan, Commonwealth dairy officer in London for the past two and a half years, who returned to Sydney by the Cathay on Thursday last,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Manilla Sheep Sale. Maitland Fat Stock Sales
V. J. Byrnes reports: Demand was considerably weaker at the sale on 20th inst., when about 10,000 sheep were yarded to a fair representation E. W. Sparke, Ltd., report that 900 cattle and 2000 sheep were forward yesterday. Values for cattle were irregular, but generally ranged from…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →District Stock Sales. Prices at Flemington. Sheep and Lambs. Market Active
The offering at Flemington on Monday was of good average quality. Buyers were present in large numbers, and every section of the trade was…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →P.p. Union Weekly Notes Cattle Diseases. No Antidote for Poisoning by Ergot. Expert Investigation
"No known antidote for ergot poisoning is at present available," the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Main) has informed the General Secretary of…
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