Butter-laden Lorry Crashed Over Siding
Two Taree men had a remarkable escape from serious injury on Monday afternoon when a lorry containing 11½ tons of butter crashed over…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1950
1,829 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 92
Time Limit for Cattle Sellers Suggested
Sir, In your last issue our Civic fathers spent quite a time discussing the dreadful noises caused by cattle…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Record Wool Clip Expected
SYDNEY, Sat. — Woolgrowers and brokers believe, that the 1950-51 wool season may bring a higher return than the record…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Walcha Hearing of Allegations of Cattle Duffing
Considerable interest was displayed in a case at Walcha Petty Sessions on Tuesday, in which 35-year-old Samuel Oliver Wild was charged with…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →High Prices at Dairy Stock Sale
A new Illawarra record for a grade dairy cow was made and remade at the sale of B. J. Swan's A.I.S. type herd recently, says a Jamberoo…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers to Seek Higher Milk Price
Maitland representatives of the Milk Zone Dairymen's Council, on Wednesday, will seek a subsidy of 3d. a gallon on" milk till the end of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Owner-farmers’ From Floods Member Puts Case For Assistance
In putting a case for farmers who hove suffered through floods, Mr. Alien Fairhall, M.H.R., told the acting Prime Minister (Mr. Fadden) that, now that much of the flood waters had subtitled, there, was opportunity to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Prime Cattle Dearer
Higher prices for cattle [?] realised at Maitland yard [?] Seven hundred cattle a[?] yarded, with good bullocks [?]…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Levy on Wool Textiles
LONDON, July 24 (AAP).— The Board of Trade announced details of a draft statutory order for a levy on the wool textile…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Agistment for Dairy Stock
Agistment for about 100 head dry dairy stock has been made available through a member of the APPU…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →High Prices for Farms and Plant
SINGLETON, Monday. — High prices were realised for land and dairy herds at sales conducted at Singleton…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Relief for Flooded Farmers
The annual meeting of the Maitland branch of the Australian Primary Producers’ Union has been arranged for Friday, at 7.30 p.m.,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Court Fines Another "Rabbit Farmed"
At the Muswellbrook Petty Sessions on Thursday, Mr. J. S. White, manager of the White Bros Pty. Ltd. estate, was fined…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farming Notes From All Parts
FORTY stud Berkshire pigs were bought recently in the Richmond district for transhipment to China. It is believed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sheep Losses in State Will be Heavy
SYDNEY, Tuesday.—Hundreds of thousands of sheep are feared lost as a result of the severe floodings in pastoral lands in the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Seasons Wool Cheque Sets Record
It was announced at the weekend that Australia's wool cheque for the 1949-'50 season was for the record sum of £286.6 -million…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →18/- A Bushel For Wheat Sold To Egypt
The sale of 200,000 metric tons (about 7,250,00 bushels) of wheat by Australia to the Egyptian Government would return 18/ a bushel…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Wheat Sowings Delayed In Central and North-West
Frequent rainstorms during May and June interfered seriously with wheat-sowings in north-western New South Wales—reports the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Flood Warnings for North Coast. Pastoral Industry Hit. Army Ducks at Moree. Sydney
Hundreds of thousands of sheep are feared lost as a result of the severe floodings in pastoral lands in the north-west of N.S.W. Many sheep…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Milk Zone Dairymen's Council. (To The Editor)
Sir.—A meeting of the management committee of the above council was held in Sydney on the 20th instant, Mr. J. B. Carlton,…
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