Thieves Truck Sheep In Hundreds
Graziers in the Roma (Q.) district say that thieves, using a 3-ton truck, have stolen hundreds of sheep from their properties in…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1949
1,665 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 84
To-day's World News Whole Herds Frozen to Death. News Planes to Rescue. Plans to Feed 2,100,000 CATTLE. New York, Thuesday
Seventeen big cargo planes will start operation of "haylift" to-day as part of the battle to save over 2,100,000 starving cattle and sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Touring Junior Farmers
MUSWELLBROOK.—A party of 28 Junior Farmers from the mid-west visited Muswellbrook during the holidays. They came…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy and Store Cattle Sale
J. Enright, E. W. Sparke Pty. Ltd. and H. G. Wolfe yarded 400 dairy cattle and 200 store cattle at Maitland yards yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Store Cattle Market
New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Scone, report having yarded 569 cattle at their special store cattle sale held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Production Below Demand
Rapid increase of world wool output by the 27 per cent, necessary to equate production with, consumption seemed hardly…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Farmers Using More Lime
Mr. J. M. Pitt, District Agronomist at Taree, says an indication of how lime-minded farmers are becoming in the mid-rivers districts is the fact…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Clarence Town Dairy Sale
J. Enright and T. Carlton report that a record number of buyers attended Mr. J. S. Smith's sale on Tuesday, and a highly satisfactory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Alderman Attacks Dairymen
Aid. J. Brittliffe, at Singleton Municipal Council meeting last week, said: "It was an absolute disgrace that dairymen would not co-operate unless…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairymen Await Board Finding
Dairymn in the milk zone are anxiously awaiting the result of the prices inquiry being conducted by the Milk Board. It was announced…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →World Conference On Wheat
WASHINGTON, January 27.—In what is regarded in many quarters as a forlorn hope, representatives of 50, nations yesterday began the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →New Record For Wool
HOBART.—A new Australasian record price of 171d a lb. was paid for two bales of superfine merino wool from Merton Vale,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Keen Demand For Wool
SYDNEY, Thursday.— Under keen general competition, the Sydney wool market reflected all the best features-of the previous…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →War Stocks Given Priority Over Civilian Needs “Guns Before Butter,” U.S. Version
WASHINGTON, January 27.—A western variation of the Nazis’ “guns before butter” policy was announced yesterday by the U.S. Munitions Board, which stated that the accumulation of war materials would now take precedence…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Junior Farmers' Club
The ordinary meeting of the Raymond Terrace Junior Farmers' Club was held in the Central School Room on Thursday evening last…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Sales
At the wool sales in Sydney on Wednesday, 11,664 bales were catalogued. The clearance, Including…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Unrestricted Wheat Planting
SYDNEY, Friday. — Growers will be able to sow unrestricted areas of wheat this year, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Graham,…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Wool Auctions
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers report:— “At the closing auctions of the week yesterday the market was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Prices of All Cattle Rise
Prices for all classes of cattle rose sharply at this week's sales, according to reports from local selling agents. Sheep, however, showed a slightly easier price. Heavy bullocks sold in the fat yards for £27/6/; the highest…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Branding of Cattle Some Practical Hints
The damage done to hides by faulty methods of branding and by branding on valuable portions of the hide is not yet fully realised…
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