Steady Demand For Wool
Values at the Newcastle wool auction yesterday were fully firm on the lower values of the last fortnight, with a tendency to…
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Farming & the land, 1949
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Local and General News Singleton Wool Included in Record Loading
Many tons of wool shorn in the Singleton and nearby districts will be included in the cargo of the Boogahilla (5847…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Live" Wire Electrocutes 25 Dairy Cows
Twenty-five cows were electrocuted on Lochinvar dairy farm, near Maitland. Mr. A. Gurr, son of the owner (Mr. W. Gurr) said…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Weston Poultry Farmers Meet
A widely representative gathering, including delegates from Cessnock and Maitland branches, as well as delegates from the Hunter Valley…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Share Farmer Claims £496
Laurence Cliff Prior, share farmer of Mitchells Plat is claiming £400 for breach of contract and £96 for growing crops…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Devon Cattle Breeders' Society’s 102nd SHOW
Entries for the Devon Cattle Breeders Society’s Show and Sale at Taunton In Somerset was 117. The highest price was 415 guineas, paid by British Livestock Exports. Ltd.; (London) for the reserve champion bull, Buthay Field Master, calved In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →U.S. On Verge Of Wheat Glut
WASHINGTON, April 29-Reports reaching the Agriculture Department on the ere of winter harvest suggest that the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →25 Cows Electrocuted Lochinvar Farmer's £500 Loss
When ninety yards of a main conductor wire carrying 6000 volts of electricity snapped and fell across a wire boundary fence at a Lochinvar…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Share Farmer’s Claim
SINGLETON, Saturday —Lawrence Clive Prior, share dairy fanner, of Mitchell’s Flat; claimed £400, alleging breach of a share farming…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Progressive Farmers to Tell of Tour
On Thursday, May 5. at the N.A.A. pavilion, Singleton, Milton Enttsworth and W. H. Bruce, members of the Rural Balnck’s progressive…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Better Dairy Herds
SYDNEY: The Division of Dairying Department of Agriculture supplies the following information under the rules…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Upper Hunter Has Had Light Frosts Pastures Have Lost Production Value, Says Dairy Officer
Mr. J. W. Robinson, Dairy Officer, in the course of his report for .April, states that the two to three inches of rain received during April have been valuable as a follow-up to rainfall which occurred earlier in the year, when over…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Prices For Young Cattle Easier
Wees for vealers and young cattle eased at Maitland yards to-day but other classes remained unchanged…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Light Autumn Potato Crop On Hunter Agronomist’s Report
The quantity of autumn potatoes to be harvested in the Hunter River district this year will be below normal, states the district agronomist (Mr. G. T. Dawson). Crops planted on some farms died from the excessively…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Muswellbrook Dairy Cattle Sale
At a special cattle sale held on Thursday, 28th instant conducted by W. Thompson, and W. Bailey & Sons (Singleton)…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sheep Cheaper at Homebush
Pitt, Son and Badgery report.— 38,601 sheep and lambs penned, mostly trade quality with an increased proportion of medium…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle For N.G. Experiment
Hunter Valley Stud Hereford cattle are being shipped to New Guinea to form the nucleus of what may become…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Strike of Wool-Basil Workers
SYDNEY, Wed. — A request that a Conciliation Commissioner, Mr- F. B. Kelly, be removed, will be made by the secretary of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmers at Quirindi
QUIRINDI: Junior Farmers were so pleased with their show exhibit this year, that already , many members are preparing for the next…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Citrus Crop Forecast
SYDNEY: Production of main crop citrus fruit for 1949 is fore cast by the Agriculture Department'’s Division of Marketing and…
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