Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1942

1,683 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 36 of 85

Wool Price

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 June 1942 · page 1

Referring to criticisms made by the Minister for Commerce, Mr. Scully, and the Minister for Lands, Mr. Tully, of his comments on the…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Barley Grain for Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 June 1942 · page 1

Grinding or roiling pays when feeding cattle with barley grain. Experiments have indicated that, in a ration for dairy cattle, all cereal grains have…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Delivery of Meat and Butter

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 June 1942 · page 1

Members of Paxton Miners' Lodge are taking up the question of the delivery of meat and butter with the Directors of the Cessnock…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Prices For Knitting Wool

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 9 June 1942 · page 2

CANBERRA Tuesday —The Prices Commissioner (Profesor Copland) has fixed the maximum wholesale indent wholesale…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Junior Farmers' Notes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 June 1942 · page 4

The monthly meeting of the Muswellbrook Junior Farmers' Club was held at the school on Thursday at 7.45 p.m. Bob Preston occupied the chair…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Fit Gas Producers. to Farm Lorries, Utiilities, Etc

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 June 1942 · page 4

The Liquid Fuel Control Board has advised the Department of Agriculture that the petrol position is such that primary producers would be well…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

DAIRYING Mammitis Prevention of Infection

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 June 1942 · page 4

Judging by the rapid manner in which contagious mammitis may spread through a dairy, observes a departmental pamphlet, there is every…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

More Dairy Produce Needed Dairy Journal Examines Position

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 June 1942 · page 1

As thin paper has tried to point out to its readers over a long period, the demand for dairy products will always be greater than tho supply. Problems…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Less Butter and More Cheese Output for Nine Months

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 June 1942 · page 3

The output of factory butter for the nine months ended in March last was 411,579 cwt, or 13.8 per cent, less than that recorded for the…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Labour Needed for Potato Crop

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 10 June 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY Wed.—A Government Potato expert stated last night that the release of 300 or 400 experienced men from camp at…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Manpower on Farms

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 11 June 1942 · page 1

The Australian Agricultural Council has urged the Commonwealth Governments to declare the agricultural and dairying industries, protected industries, and to provide…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Girl Farmers Deciding Factors

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 11 June 1942 · page 3

Two city girls—Margaret and Ruth Walker—are doing a man's job on Mr. Mark Lamond's dairy farm at, Moss Vale Margaret Walker, who is 19, has been on…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Army Land Girls Praised by Farmers

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 11 June 1942 · page 3

SYDNEY Thurs.—Several delegates at the conference of fruit growers in Sydney paid a high tribute to the work rot-Land Army…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Limiting the Pastoral Call Up

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 1

SYDNEY Friday.— The Deputy Director General Manpower (Mr. Bellemore) announced last night that further production had…

Continued on Trove, page 1 →

Tamworth Special Cattle Sale

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 6
Also in Maitland Mercury

As advertised elsewhere in this issue, the Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co., Ltd. (Sydney) in conjunction with A. L. Stewart and Co…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Final Round of Wool Sales

Maitland Mercury · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 6

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd., states that the final round of Sydney wool appraisements will commence on Tuesday next and…

Continued on Trove, page 6 →

Beef and Cattle Stations. Military Exemptions. SYDNEY

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 2

The restriction on the call-up of men employed on beef and cattle stations was announed by the Director of Man-power to-day…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Rationing of Woollens Aged Sheep and Large Flocks

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 5

Australia awaits the rationing coupons for woollens and other clothes (states Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd.). The population of Great…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Use of Wheat as Stock Some Common Objections Examined

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 June 1942 · page 3

With wheat now available for stock feeding purposes at as low as 3/- per bushel in country areas, many opportunities are provided…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →