Sheep and Cattle Market Firm
The sheep market yesterday was very firm, and the cattle market firmer to 20/- dearer. Throwley Pastoral Co…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1952
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Wool Use and Output Synthetic Mixtures
World production of wool is estimated to be four per cent, higher than the 1934-38 average, says Winchcombe, Carson,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Pakistan’s Wheat I Deal with Soviet
NEW YORK: Pakistan has fumed to the Soviet Union for aid in meeting its critical food shortage end averting a famine. Reporting this from Karachito-day, United Press…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Milk Zone Dairymen's Council Management Committee Meets
A meeting of the management Committee of the Milk Zone Dairyman's Council was held in Sydney on 21st August, when…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Company’s Voting Rule
Shareholders at to-day’s annual meeting of the Hunter Valley Co-operative Dairy Coy- Ltd. rejected a…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Need Stressed for Greater Milk Production Adverse Factors Beyond Control Of Hunter Valley Farmers
Need for increased milk production to the benefit of the supplier, the company and the country, was stressed at the annual meeting of shareholders of the Hunter Valley Co-op. Dairy Co. at Hexham to-day. Main factors adversely affecting production were not materially within the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Singleton Dairy Coy. To Pasteurize District Milk Supply
Singleton Central Dairy Company Ltd., has decided to install the plant necessary for the pasteurization of Singleton and District milk. This decision was reached when the Board of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Long Point Dairy "Most Modern in State"
The district Milk Board, representative, Mr. W. Paton, said yesterday that Mr. L. Halter's new dairy…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Commerce Chamber Forestalled By Dairy Co. Decision
A decision of the Singleton and District Chamber of Commerce, which met on Wednesday night, to urge…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Week in the Store Cattle Market
Good rain in the North and North-West has now assured the Spring and Summer in these areas, and has…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Dairy Cattle Killed
Several dairyman la the Woodville district have recently had valuable-cattle killed by careless shopters…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farouk’s Cattle Slaughtered
CAIRO: Cattle from ex King Farouk’s estates all over Egypt were slaughtered at the week-end in…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Prices Higher
SYDNEY: New season’s wool sale’s prices to-day were slightly higher than the last Sydney sale in June…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Worid-wide Attention Focussed on Opening of Sydney Wool Sales Sydney
-World-wide attention is focussed to-day on the opening of the wool sales in Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Basis Of Payment To Dairymen
If the Milk Board adopted the practice of paying dairymen on the basis of 10.33 to one gallon of milk, a corresponding…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floods Have Dashed Hopes Of Farmers
Agricultural farmers in the Lower Hunter, who, normally, would be watching spring craps making good progress, face lean times for the next six months or so, because of two disastrous flood visitations…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dairy Farmers’ Heavy v Loss In Fodder Crops
The district dairy officer (Mr. E. G. McLaren) states that excellent crops of Lucerne, beseem clever and oats in particular have been totally destroyed by the floods…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers' Flood Losses Premier's Assurance Of Help
The plight of the Denman district fanners who have suffered extensive losses as a result of the recent floods was referred to…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Losses In Vegetable And Fodder Crops
The district agronomist (Mr. F. D. Mackenzie), in his report for August, said that severe losses in sown potatoes had occurred following heavy rain early in the month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farmers’ Battle In Moonlight To Save Cattle From Quicksand
SINGLETON: Fourteen men bottled in moonlight last right to save five head of valuable shud stack [?]in quicksand in the Glendon-Scott’s Flat area…
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