Bobs Farm
The Fraternity branch of the G.U.O. O.F. Lodge celebrated its first anniversary with a ball and supper, in the local hall on the 16th May. The hall was neatly…
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Farming & the land, 1940
1,842 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 93
Poultry Farmers Tenambit Association
Mr. B. Perry (president) occupied the chair of a well-attended meeting of the association on Tuesday evening…
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Raymond Terrace, Mr. Ralston moving and Mr. Berry seconding, submitted: "That if the quota legislation for butter substitutes is passed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Over 1000Lb. of Butter
It is a remarkable achievement when the yield is considered in terms of commercial butter. For the nine months Miss Sales' champion yielded…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Appraisements of Wool Sydney Catalogues
Pitt, Son and B[?]dgery Ltd., report that wool has started to come to hand wore freely now that railway restriction have been modified and the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Champion Jersey Yields 8871b. Butter-Fat Gresford Girl's Success
On the East Gresford Jersey stud farm lives Miss Pearl Sales, owner at the age of 19 years of "Belgrave Aviatrix," whose butter-fat yield of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Costs on Dairy Farms
A letter from the General President, Mr. W. H. Smith, advised that a number of members had recently furnished valuable information…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Milk Strike Would Be Fatal To Producers Singleton Dairy Farmers Must Shortly Declare Their Attitude
A certain faction among dairy farmers supplying milk to Sydney are apparently persisting with their ill-timed efforts to foment a strike within the ranks of all producers in the Zones. A postal ballot has been commenced with the hope of securing…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →DAIRYING Reduction of Dairy Production Costs by Elimination of Waste
The belief that a higher price for dairy produce is the only solution of the farmer's problems is wrong, points out an article in the…
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Continued on Trove, page 4 →£2000 DAMAGE Old Butter Factory Buildings Dungog Blaze Dukgog
What was probably the Bussan the is [?] last night when the [?] the big butter factory were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Trees on the Farm a Good General Fertiliser
Newly planted trees shoull not be manured, but fertilisers can be applied after the second year if desired and frequently have a very marked…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Dairy Factory's Success
The manager of the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., has returned from the annual State conference in Sydney of dairy…
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Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: We sold at Flemington on Thursday on account H. A. Abbott, Gloucester, 23 steers to £13…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dungog Cattle
A draft of 10 cows from Lindsay Hooke, Dungog, made to £9/8/, averaging £8/2/2, and 6 heifers averaging £7/15/, at Winchcombe, Carson's…
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Pitt, Son & Badgery, Ltd., report on. 31st May:—Receipts of wool have started to come to hand more freely now that…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dungog Butter Success at Managers' Conference
Connected with the annual conference of the Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries (N.S.W. division), hold in Sydney last week, butter…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Butter and Cheese for [?]Ritain Canberra
During 1940-41 the United Kingdom will probably purchase, under contract tract, from Australia. 73.500 tons of butter and 13,000 tons of cheese…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Spectacular Fire Old Butter Factory Gutted Big Fodder Stocks Destroyed : DAMAGE £2000
What was probably the biggest fire in Dungog's history occurred on Sunday night, when the buildings of the old butter factory were partially…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Outlook for Wool. French Mills in Enemy Hands Sydney
In a report regarding the British wool trade, Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., state that despite the rationing of wool supplies for civilian use in Great…
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