£36,238,839 Wool Cheque for Eleven Months CANBERRA
Wool sold in the Commonwealth to the end of May totalled 2,732,893 bales, which realised £36,238,839, at an average of £13/5/2 per bale and 10.6d per…
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Farming & the land, 1939
2,413 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 53 of 121
Winter School for Poultry Farmers
The winter school for poultry farmers at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, will be held this year from June 27 to July 7. The fee…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Gradings
The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle, during the week ended May 26, 14,204 boxes of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Disease Research Forthcoming Visit to Glenfield
The secretary of the Australian Cattle Research Association (Col. G. C. Somerville) reports that arrangements for an inspection by cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Coolers on Dairy Farms Minister Answers Protest
"The Milk Board's decision to require farmers to cool their milk as effectively as possible and immediately after…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Arm Creek Crossing Cessnock
Kearsley Shire Council received a petition from the residents requesting that the Dairy Arm Creek crossing, Yallambie, be stoned for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Value of Dairying to Australia Interesting Figures
Interesting statistics relating to the dairying industry were given by the Minister for Commerce, Senator McLeay, in a written reply to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter Export Trade
During the week ended June 3, the Commonwealth graders at Sydney examined for export. 10, 81 boxes of butter, of which 10, 163 were salted and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pine Timber for Butter Boxes
It has been well known to the people of the Lower Hunter and particularly those who reside in the Raymond Terrace and Williamtown areas that these districts will…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Keen Demand Sydney Wool Sales
A total of 7979 bales was offered at the Sydney wool sales. The clearance including private sales of passedin and fellmongered wools, amounted to S 715…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Moving Sheep at Night Use of Motor Lorries
With the advent of transporting cheep (especially fat lambs) from the Paddock. twenty, thirty or more miles to the railway trucking yards in hug…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Costs Out of Control Pastoral Industry Move to Increase Wool Prices
Delegates at the 55th annual convention of the Graziers' Federal Council of Australia, which opened yesterday, stressed the urgent…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Report
The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 6th inst.: We submitted at our sale on Monday, sth instant, a catalogue of 3604…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cattle Pen for Pig
A pig so high that it had to be sent through a cattle pen was slaughtered at South Grafton Abattoir. The dressed weight…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Market Sydney
The Sydney wheat market was Quieter to-day. Bulk parcels were quoted 2/5, Sydney market basis, and bagged lots 2/7 a bushel…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Payments Benefit for Growers
The Commissioners of the Rural Bank state that many growers seem to have the impression that payments under the Wheat Industry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australia as a Wool Consumer How Much Wool Do You Wear?
Addressing a recent conference of south-western district farmers on the outlook for the sheep man, a departmental instructor made interesting…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Margarine Instead of Butter Fines in Sydney
After having asked for butter on his Hamburger roll, he received margarine on it, declared Health Inspector Beeston at the Central…
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