Sudden Death Aged Farmer Collapses
While working on a farm near his residence at Pitnacree-road, East Maitland, this morning, Michael Caseyi aged 64, collapsed and died…
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Farming & the land, 1938
2,173 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 54 of 109
Costly Parties Sent to Prison Farm SYDNEY
Joseph Mitchell, a dealer, who in his public examination in bankruptcy had admitted that he had spent £800 or £900 on a lady in King's Cross, and…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Manning River Dairying
The Manning River Co-operative Dairy Society, at Taree, paid 775 suppliers for May 1/1½ per lb. for choicest, 1/0½ per lb. for second-class, and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Consumption
The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle, during the week ended June 24, 11,678 boxes of…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wool Report
The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 24th instant; Wool auctions have continued in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Local Cattle Market To-day's Prices
At the Shire yards to-day Messrs Grainger and Falkiner Pty. Ltd. report having sold fat cows to £8/8/6, heifers to £8/19/, vealers to £7/7/,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Drafts on Wool London, June 26
A joint meeting of the Colonial Wool Merchants Association and representatives of the London wool selling brokers resolved to support the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Suggested Removal of Cattle and Pig and Calf Yards
There has been a suggestion mooted in some quarters just recently that the shifting of the shire saleyards and the pig and calf yards to a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmer's Death Coroner's Verdict
The Maitland District Coroner (Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd), yesterday found that George Joseph Lawler (11), died in the Maitland Hospital on June 19 from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Human Hand Mystery Carted to Farm in Pig Food
The mystery of a human hand, which was found on an East Burwood (Vic.) farm on Tuesday of last week, was solved on Monday when…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Markets
Prescott Ltd. report: N. S. Wales: Reports from most dairying centres indicate continued decline in production, although arrivals at Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Sheep
A fair average yarding of about 1800 fat sheep, mainly medium quality merino wethers. Prime quality lembs and hoggets were scarce. The usual…
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About 900 fat cattle in the prime section and about 50 in the cracker section formed a smaller, yarding than usual. The quality throughout was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →PASTORAL Lessons From Drought
Reports of departmental officers bring out two points very clearly with regard to the recent extended period of drought, observes the Chief…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Wool Report
The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 24th June:—Wool auctions have continued in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Price of Butter
The farmer's wife in the countryside Looked at the paddocks so fur and wide, Where her men folk toiled, day in,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Field, Farm and Dairy AGRICULTURE The Maize Crop
No amount of after-cultivation can make up for insufficient preparation of the soil for maize, and the land should be given a deep ploughing in…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ASSAILED! Housewives' Association Butter Price Sydney
In the Legislative Assembly the Housewives' Association and Mrs. Glencross, its President, were vigorously assailed by Mr. W…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Pastoral. Lay-out of Shearing Sheds. Some Important Considerations
In planning a shearing shed, observes a Departmental leaflet, there are a number of considerations deserving of special mention, namely:—…
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