Local Cattle Market To-day's Prices
Messrs Grainger and Falkiner Pty. Ltd. report having sold at the Shire saleyards to-day fat steers to £8/16/, cows to £6/11/, heifers to £6/6/,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1938
2,173 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 20 of 109
Hard Work Goes a Begging Candid Bowraville Farmer
Mr H. D. Walters, of Bowraville, in a letter to the Press, says:— Sir,—For the past four months I have been advertising in various…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Artificial Cattle Breeding
On Lord Rayleigh's farm in Essex (England) a fine healthy calf has just been born as the result of artificial in semination of a British Friesian cow by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Food Value of Butter
The food value of butter is a subject that does not often come under, the notice of the public, but according to a report recently issued by the English Medical…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sheep Irregular Sales at Homebush SYDNEY
Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report.—40,200 sheep penned. The market opened irregular and weaker. Mutton 2½d to 3¼d lb. hoggets 3¾d to 4d,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sydney Wool Sales Strong Competition
A good selection was submitted at the Sydney wool sales yesterday. Of the 11,096 bales offered, 10,810 were sold at auction, and 898 bales were…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →N. Coast Butter Payments by Factories LISMORE
The North Coast Butter Factories' Association, at Lismore to-day, fixed pay for butter supplied in February at 11¼ a lb. The January and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairy Farms Coastal Competition
With the object of stimulating up-to-date methods of herd and pasture improvement and fodder conservation, a coastal dairy farm competition will…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →The Farmers' Lament
Under its spreading hopeless debts The farmer's homestead stands; Its Lord a mournful man is he As he ploughs his mortgaged hinds,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Pastoral Wastage in the Sheep Industry the Loss Due to Bacterial Disease
The wastage in the sheep industry due to disease of one type and another is considerable, and on some properties makes all the difference…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Awards
The awards for butter were given as follows:— Box of butter, suitable for local consumption, Singleton Central…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Rouchel Cattle to the Fore
Mr. W. G. McMullin, of "Brooklyn," Upper Rouchel, carried all before him with his fat cattle at this week's Maitland Show, his successes including the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Season's Wheat Adjudged High Quality
A report from the chief chemist of the Department of Agriculture with regard to the milling and baking quality of samples of f.a.q. wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →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 arc based mainly on the experience of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Bomb Explodes Farmhouse Damaged MELBOURNE
When a home-made bomb exploded in a pig sty on a farm owned by R. D. Langdon, an onion grower, of Coroorook, near Colac fragments of iron…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairying Encouragement of Clovers
The most outstanding plant for sowing in coastal districts, and especially amongst paspalum, is a persistent strain of certified seed of white…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →PASTORAL Sudan Grass Poisoning
On account of instances which have recently been reported of cattle having been poisoned as the result of grazing on Sudan grass, and of certain…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Meat Exports Greater Than Butter MELBOURNE
For the first time on record, the export of meat exceeded that of dairy products last year. Exports to the United Kingdom…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Wool Up 5 Per Cent Adelaide
There was a strong demand at the wool sales. Values were about on a par with the last Adelaide sales, and 5 per cent, higher than rates in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Butter in London The Market Firm Production Decline Melbourne
Cables show that the London market is firm and tending dearer for the negligible quantities on offer. Salted Kangaroo and New Zealand finest salted…
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