Winter College for Poultry Farmers
The Minister for Agriculture, the Hon. E. H. Graham, M.L.A., said last week that a winter school for poultry farmers would be…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1951
1,730 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 25 of 87
Dairymen Turn to Beef Trade
LISMORE: Six hundred dairy farms had gone out of production in the Lismore-Tweed area, said the district President of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Graph Showing the Growth of the Dairying Industry Over the Past Fifty Years
Despite substantial increases in production during this period, current milk consumption for all purposes indicates that this rate of increase, if maintained, will not be sufficient to meet estimated…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool Prices Were Down
MELBOURNE: Wool prices continued to fall yesterday when 10,300 bales were offered at the Melbourne sales…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Bob's Farm
With streamers of rainbow hues, floral decorations and a large, rainbow on stage, plus miniature rainbow hales worn by stall holders, a very…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Scone Market Report Sheep and Cattle Sale
New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., Scone, report having conducted their fortnightly sale of sheep and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Higher Butter Price
The Minister for Commerce and Agriculture has announced an increase of.232 pence per lb. commercial butter and cheese products…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Prices Lower
At Sydney yesterday best cattle were easier, and others £1 to £2 cheaper…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bowthorne Butter Factory Closes Down. Maitland[?]
Bowthorne Co-operative, Morpeth, one of the oldest butter factories in Australia, closed this week. The demand for milk and milk products…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wool Market Uneasy in London
LONDON: The April series of London wool sales opened on an uncertain [?]one yesterday, with prices for some classes of wool at lower levels. Some operator were inclined to hold off in anticipation…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Bowthorne Factory Stops Butter Production Concentration on By-products
This week the making of butter [?] of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory at Morpeth. The retirement of the factory’s film butter maker, Mr Sam Beats caused the managements to make this decis[?]…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Junior Farmers. Advisory Committee's Congratulations
At last night's annual meeting of the Advisory Committee of the Muswellbrook Junior Farmers Club, Mr. H H. Smith…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Britain Agrees To Increase Dairy Products Price
Britain has agreed to increase the prices of choicest and first grade butter and cheese by 7½ per cent. Shell eggs and egg products will rise by 18 to 25 per cent…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Petrol Price Rise But Tea, Butter, Sugar To Remain At Present
ADELAIDE: An Increase of one penny a gallon in the price of petrol, to operate, from to-day, was approved by the Prices Ministers’ Conference in Adelaide yesterday. The conference discussed the position of the dairying…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Early Wool Price Falls Extended Market Erratic At London Sales
LONDON: Wool price fells sustained on Thursday were extended yesterday in an erratic market at the London wool sales. Anxiety to avoid buying on a falling market got the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Dairy Production Competition Won by Grocer—fire Brigade Captain, Mr. Sylvie Jones
The Commonwealth Government's Dairying Department offered a prize for the farmer who showed the greatest increase in production over a set…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers Ever Pestered
PARIS: The first farmers’ bulletin on record was discovered recently at Nippur, in Iraq. Written on s clay tablet in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Fat Cattle, Fat Sheep Cheaper
About 1000 fat cattle were yarded at Maitland saleyards today. It was a mixed quality offering with a fair proportion of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Wool WISE Stay High
LONDON.—WooI prices will remain high although they may have passed their peak, declares the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →New Outbreak of Pleuro Pneumonia In Cattle at Singleton
"An outbreak of pleuro-pneumonia has occurred amongst a mob of twelve hundred cattle in the Singleton district," R. C;…
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