Bullahdelah Show Splendid Exhibition in Driest Year Farm Products Reveal Wonderful Soil Fertility
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 3
Gamely carrying on with their nineteenth annual show despite its being the driest year in the knowledge of the district's eldest…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Review of Maize Crop
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 4
Hot and dry weather has prevailed in most maize-growing districts since date of last report (January 10), although many areas on the Far North…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dairy Champions Breeder’s Dual Success SYDNEY
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 6
Mr. F. A. McIntosh, of Woodside Park, Berry, at Sydney Show won the “Fresh Food” Gold Challenge Cup outright. It was his third win in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Our Farmers Distress
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 6
Sir,—After reading your comment on the plight of farmers in the Hunter Valley district, I feel the urgo through the columns of your paper…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Drought Breaks Nearly Inch Of Rain Farmers Jubilant
Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 19 March 1940 · page 7
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Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter and Cheese N.s.w. Shortage
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 2
An official shortage of butter and cheese was declared for New South Wales at the meeting of the New South Wales committee of the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Old Tyres Found Useful Trough for Sheep MUSWELLBROOK
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 9
“Adversity, is the mother if invention”, is an anxiom well exemplified the Muswellbrook district where, through the prevailing drought it has…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Cattle Awards at Sydney Show Success of Singleton District Breeders
Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 3
The following awards were gained by district cattle breeders at Sydney Show:— Herefords.—Bull, 18 months and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Farmer Caught By Flood Warwick (Q.)
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 1
The body of Charles Herbert Aspinall, 49, a Maryvale district farmer, has been found where it was swept by the flood in North Branch Creek…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Stop Hunting Move by British Farmers Food Wasted (From a Special Correspondent) (By Air Mall) LONDON. March 9
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 10
English farmers in growing numbers are calling for the wartime suppression of hunting. They are expressing their anger in…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →No Easter Egg for Poultry Farmers
Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 20 March 1940 · page 7
Year after yew poultry farmers “tail in” with the market at Maitland. This year was no exception…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Markets
Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 4
Prescott Ltd. report: N. S. Wales:—In all dairying districts with the exception of parts of the far north coast, extremely dry weather…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Brighter for Dairymen As Butter Factory Sees It
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 5
Without doubt, it is a very welcome change, said Mr. W. E. Searl, manager of Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory Ltd. The suppliers…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Appraisements
The Scone Advocate · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 2
By Nenco (Newcastle): A. Collison, Scone, 6 aaaw 17d, 6 aw 16[?]; J. W. Rose, Scone, 6 aaaw 17[?]d; Hayne Bros.,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lucerne For Sheep Grazing
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 6
Four cardinal points must, be observed to secure the best results from grazing lucerne: 1. Paddocks should be subdivided,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wheat Prices Sydney
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 4
The Australian Wheat Board’s quotations for export wheat were unaltered to-day. Bulk lots were quoted at 3/9½, and bagged millers’ parcels…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Maitland Stock Sales Cattle Market Firm
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 6
Although the yarding of fat cattle at the Campbell's Hill saleyards, West Maitland, on Monday was heavier than for some time, the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Raising Experiment on North Coast
Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 1
Sheep are not raised on the North Coast, but Mr W. J. Mulligan is experimenting with a flock at Cangi, on the foothills. Seven bales of wool…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Victorian Sheep Losses in Bush Fires
The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 8
An officer of the Victorian Department of Agriculture, who returned from the grazing and agricultural areas recently…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Woman’s Domain Recent Weddings Butter—markey
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 21 March 1940 · page 3
A wedding of Maitland [?] was that of Miss Marcis Markey and Mr. [?] which took [?] St. [?]…
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