Wheat Still To Be Rationed
SYDNEY, Friday—Although the Australian wheat harvest, now nearly completed, will be very much heavier than last year…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1946
1,448 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 2 of 73
Proposed Wool Classes New Course Available
Provided sufficient applications are forthcoming from prospective students, sheep and wool courses will be taught by the local Technical Education…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Stabilised Wheat 5/2 a Bushel Scheme
The Commonwealth Government has prepared a wheat stabilisation scheme providing for guaranteed prices of 5/2 a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Maitland Stock Sales Fat Cattle Easy in Heavy Market
There were 1400 fat cattle yarded at Campbell's Hill saleyards on Monday, all classes being represented, the quality generally satisfactory. A full…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →One Million Sheep Lost Drought Toll in the West
It is estimated that as the result of the long spell of dry weather last year, 1,000,000 sheep in the P.P. districts of Bourke and Wanaaring have…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →All Milk Called Up Appeal to Dairy Farmers
Because of the shortage in milk supplies, which has brought about rationing in Sydney and Newcastle, Singleton Central…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Peeps Into the Past Singleton 50 Years Ago (From Issues of "Argus" Week Ending 11th January, 1896) Butter Room At Fanners' Union
A great improvement has been effected at the Farmers' Union in the shape of a butter room, by which butter for sale is kept nice and…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Dairy Produce Board
Nominations of candidates for election to the Australian Dairy Produce Board for the next three years term, have to be lodged on or before 15th…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Bolwarra Farmer's Luck Bank Property Disposed of by Lottery
Here is an interesting story of early Maitland taken from "Mercury" files of 1849 : On 2nd January, 1849, when the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record in City Milk Hunter Valley Dairy Company
Although milk is being rationed in Sydney, the suppliers of the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy and Produce Co. are…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Report
The Farmers & Graziers' Cooperative Grain, Insurance, and Agency Co. Ltd., reports on the 9th January, 1946 :—…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Production Many Districts Need Rain
Prescott Pty., Ltd., reports that New South Wales since last report some extremely hot weather has been experienced. Rain…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairymen Agitated Again Demand to Be Made for Special Subsidy
A mass meeting of South Coast dairy farmers will be held at Kiama on Friday to demand that the Federal Government…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prime Cattle Unaltered Homebush Market Report
Pitt, Son and Badgery report that at Homebush sale yesterday 34,000 sheep were penned. The quality of the sheep generally…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Cattle King" Began Career One-eyed Horse and 5/-
Most millionaires seem, by some uncanny chance, to start life with a shilling and little else. Sid. Kidman was different. He had five shillings and a one-eyed horse, when, at the age of 13, he ran away from home in Adelaide to cut a living for himself from the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Reduction of Dairying Costs. By Increased Production Per Head
In an article in the "Tasmanian Journal of Agriculture" (November, 1945), Mr. J. T. Armstrong, Chief Dairy Officer of the Tasmanian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →How to Make Whitewash Many Uses on the Farm
Obtain, it possibly large pieces of fresh lumb lime place them in a very large bucket or other suitable container, and into this pour hot water…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Bank Property Disposed of by Lottery Bolwarra Farmer's Luck
Here is an interesting story of early Maitland taken from the "Mercury" file of 1849:—"On the 2nd January, 1849, when…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Position Still Serious Minister "Sympathetic But Sorry"
The position in relation to wheat is still serious, as will be seen by the undermentioned letter from the Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Good Cattle Unaltered
SYDNEY, Thursday.—Pitt Son and Badgery report that at to-day’s Homebush sales, 46,201 sheep and lambs were penned,…
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