"Dairy Industry Award Unsatisfactory" New Wage Rates for Milk Employees
Until primary industries are put on the same basis in assessing labour and manufacturing costs, as those applied in…
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Farming & the land, 1949
1,665 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 84
Butter Men Get Rise
SYDNEY: Mr. Justice Kinselia, of the Industrial Commission, granted marginal increases and variations of hours of work to…
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SYDNEY, Thursday.— Winchcombe Garson Ltd. report: 40,122 sheep penned, of mixed quality. Prime lambs were practically unchanged…
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SYDNEY, Thursday—The sale 700,000,000 1b of Australian wool realised £142,000,000, it was stated to-day…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Devon Cattle Breeders' Societys' 102nd SHOW
The total entries for the Devon Cattle Breeders' Society's Show and Sale at Taunton in Somerset was 117. The show was for bulls calved over a per aid of a year from May, 1947 and was divided into three age classes. The highest price…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Miniature Farm Motor Truck
Though not in anyway a tractor for farm work, the Wrigley Wessex Motor Truck is a handy vehicle for small loads and is quite capable of running over rough ground. This picture shows the truck being driven across a ploughed field during a…
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VACY: Ideal autumn weather is being experienced here, end farmers are looking forward to the winter with confidence…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Primary Production Limits of Australia Dairy Industry Declines Through Lack of Labour
SINGLETON, Thursday.—Mr. J. R. Somers, general president of the Agricultural Bureau of N.S.W., speaking at the Upper Hunter Division annual conference at Singleton this morning referred to the production limits at present…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →District Stud Cattle for New Guinea Expeirment
Hunter Valley stud Hereford cattle are being shipped to New Guinea to form the nucleus of…
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At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday 18,209 bales were catalogued and 13,407 were sold. The Sydney Wool Selling…
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Britain, remains the biggest buyer of Australian wool. In the nine months to March 31. she bought 271,678,253lb. of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cross Bred Dairy Cattle Gave Higher Production Friesians Most Popular Breed in U.S.A. Increasing in U.K.
Mr. M. Buttsworth, winner of the Rural Bank Progressive Farmer Competition for dairying, told the Annual Conference of the Upper Hunter Division of the Agricultural Bureau in Singleton yesterday,…
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The milk supply within the milk zone is rapidly diminishing, and during the last three weeks,…
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SINGLETON, Friday.—Speaking at the Agricultural Bureau conference of the Upper Hunter division yesterday. Mr. M…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Missing Farmer Found Dead Near Menai
DUNGOG, Friday.—A horseman this morning found the body of a 49-years-old dairy farmer, with a bullet wound in his head,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Can't Effectively Farm Under Award Hours" Lismore Judges View
He could not see how a dairy farm could be worked effectively if award hours were strictly applied, said Judge Storkey in…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Local and General News Good and Bad Share Farmers
Mr. K. Warburton, President of N.A.A. raised the topic of share farmers when proposing a vote of thanks to the State…
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Dairy factory employees in the Hunter River and North Coast, including those of Singleton Central Co-operative,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Poultry Farming in America
SINGLETON: Mr. W. B. Brace, a winner of the Rural Bank Progressive Farmer competition, gave an address on poultry at tile annual…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Poultry Farmers’ Meeting
More than 30 poultry farmers attended a special meeting of the Maitland sub-branch of the Associated Poultry Farmers of Australia…
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