Small Sheep Supply Flemington Sales
Supplies of sheep and lambs were again light at Flemington yesterday, the offering—7690 sheep and 8578 lambs—being 9000…
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Farming & the land, 1947
1,593 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 53 of 80
Wheat Dump at Railway
PERSEVERENCE REWARDED. The Railway Commissioners have at last agreed to provide a wheat dump at the Merriwa…
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Prices of good and better class fleece wools and best skirtings at the opening series of the 1947-48 wool sales on Tuesday were 25 to…
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Speaking at the annual meeting of the Hunter Valley Co-Op. Dairy Co., Ltd. one day last week, the Chairman…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairymen Likely to Get 2/- Gallon for Milk in Winter Anticipated Base Price of 1/8 per Gallon
There is a possibility that when control of the milk industry comes back to the States again after September 30 that producers will be working on a base price of 1/8 per gallon in New South Wales, with the possibility that application of subsidy…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Combined Operations in Farming Science Britain Opens New School for Agricultural Research
Many forms of agricultural instruction and research in Britain will be co-ordinated through the formation of a new school of rural…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Sheep Buoyant in Sydney
SYDNEY, Monday.— Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report: 19,367 sheep penned of mixed quality. The market was again buoyant. Best ewes…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wheat Crop Not So Promising in W.a
There was no prospect of a really good harvest in Western Australia, said the secretary of the W.A. Wheat Pool Trustees (Mr H. E Braine)…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shortage of Sheep Causes Market Rise
Medium-weight bullocks of good trade quality and some choice heifers were features of a yarding of 150 fat cattle at the Campbell’s…
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SINGLETON, Monday. — The NAA decided to support the nominations of Messrs. G. H. Roberts, of “Bogleburn,” and Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dairying Industry Will See Many Changes Momentous End to 1947
According to statements made at the annual meeting of the Australian Daily Board last month, the end of 1947 will be…
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New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd. report:—We offered a good average selection, mainly of merino clip wool, drawn chiefly from…
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CAPETOWN, Sept. 9.—Prices at the season’s first wool sale were 20 per cent above the closing prices last season. Top price was 38½d…
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SYDNEY, Tues. Greasy merino fleece sold to 54[?]d for nine bales of Jabs/Dimkeld (Morah North) at the Sydney wool sales. The market…
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SYDNEY, Monday. — Greasy Merino fleece sold to 54 3/4d for nine bales of JAB/Dunkeld (Merah North) at the Sydney wool sales…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Convicts Carry on U.S. Prison Farms No Paid Guards For More Than 1300 Convicts
PINE BLUFF, Arkansas—(Associated Press)—Armed convicts—132 of them—roam the Arkansas River bottom east and south of here. There is nothing unusual in this. These men and others…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Outsider Won Polish Derby Rejected By Nazis and Farmer
WARSAW—(Associated Press)—Gniew, a horse that was rejected to the Germans and a farmer, recently won Poland’s biggest post-war horse race and captured a stake of 400,000 zlotys (£1200)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Romney Marsh Sheep From N.Z.
Following on an interview which Messrs. James Robinson and Basil E. Wilson had with the Minister for Agriculture on behali of the New…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report the Farmers & Graziers' Cooperative Grain Insuurance & Agency Company Ltd. 3rd September, 1947
We submitted a Catalogue of 7052 bales on Tuesday, 2nd instant, comprising clips drawn largely from the North-Western Plains, the Central…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farmers Eligible for World Tour Great Opportunity for Younger Men
A world tour of investigation into rural production and marketing methods will be undertaken by three selected New South Walesa farmers…
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