Small District Crops Stone Fruit Dearer, Scarcer Tis Season
Maitland Mercury · Thursday 8 December 1949 · page 6
The June floods and wet weather have resulted in smaller crops of most lines of summer fruit in the district this season, local orchardists said to-day. They said in some lines yields were down as low as 50…
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The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 1
A cattle stealing charge against Henry John Bridge, of Bligh-street, Millfield, was dismissed at Cessnock Court on Tuesday…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Stacking
Singleton Argus · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 2
Wherever wheat has to be stacked on the farm (even if only temporarily), proper stacking is important in preventing…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →On the Cattle Camp
The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 2
[?] action picture, taken at the recent Scone Carnival, shows JACK PALMER, riding G. M, Finlay & Sons' Vivid, in the open camp draft. Both horse and rider are right on the job. Other carnival shots in later issues of "The Advocate."…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milk Output Rises Butter Lagging
The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 4
While milk production in Australia during the three months to September was 252,600,000 gallons, an increase of 600,000…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Ministers To Consider Rise In Butter Price
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 4
SYDNEY, Friday.—An increase in the price of butter by threepence a pound will be considered by the price Ministers…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Delay in Rise of Wheat Price
The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 4
There had still been no decision as to how farmers were to be paid the new price for home-consumption wheat, which should have…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Big Japanese Orders for Wheat Here
The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 4
TOKIO: Japan has now ordered Australian wheat and barley valued at £8,125,000, the Australian Commercial Counsellor in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Report Winchcombe Carson's Sydney Auction
Singleton Argus · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 3
Winchconibe Carson's report having sold 9200 bales wool at Sydney auction yesterday. Values were buoyant and '?…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →District's Biggest Field Day 400 Junior Farmers at "Rosehill."
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 5
Over 400 Junior Farmers took part in a field day at Mr. W. W. Wonder's "Rosehill" stud on Tuesday last. Members represented Muswellbrook,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Piallaway Estate for Soldier Farms
The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY: The Minister for Lands (Mr. Sheahan) said on Wednesday that over 700 farms in the eastern and central divisions…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Upper Hunter Junior Farmers Combined Field Day at Muswellbrook
The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 1
At the combined annual, field day of the Upper Hunter District Junior Farmers' Club, held last Wednesday at the property of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Junior Farmers’ Field Day Biggest, Best Yet Ideal Setting At Cooranbong
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 6
The combined annual field day of the Lower Hunter-Lake Macquarie Junior Farmers’ clubs, held yesterday at the Australian Missionary College, Cooranbo[?]ng, was the biggest and most successful field day the district has yet…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Scholarship Winner From Farming Family
Maitland Mercury · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 6
Seventeen-years-old Robert Sonter of Cooranbong, who has won the Rural Bank Junior Farmer scholarship entitling him to three…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →U.S. Move For Better Dairying
Singleton Argus · Friday 9 December 1949 · page 2
Countries other than Australia are urging higher production on dairy farms, and American dairyfarmers have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Harvest
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 1
SYDNEY, Sat.—For the third successive year, New Sooth Wales should have a wheat harvest well above the average…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Prize Cattle at Cooranbong
Maitland Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 5
Junior farmers who took part cattle judging at the Lower Hunter-Lake [?]acquarle annual field day at Cooranbong were…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Help Fellow Farmers "We Move in Right Way," Says General Secretary
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 2
Dungog had done well in its response to the Kempsey Flood Appeal, the General Secretary of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council (Mr. L. C…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Private Prices Inquiry Dairymen Asked to Prepare Evidence
Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 10 December 1949 · page 1
At an early date the Board would be seeking the Minister's approval to commence a private prices inquiry to determine the price for the winter…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Cattle Unchanged At Homebush
Maitland Mercury · Monday 12 December 1949 · page 3
Pitt, Son and Badgery’s report: 26,240 sheep and lambs, mainly good to prime quality, average values 1/ to 3/ higher…
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