Butter Graded for Home Use Sydney
The butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended April 14, 22,014 boxes of butter, for local consumption. The…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1939
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"Cattle King's" Grandson to Wed London, April 18
Mr. Robin Richard Kidman, son of Captain Nelson Clover Kidman, a retired naval officer of Tourquay, and a grandson of Sir Sidney Kidman, the late Australian…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Wheat Conference May Be Held Shortly LONDON, April 18
It is understood that the world wheat conference may be held early in the summer. The preparatory committee, which met…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney Wool Sales Some Irregularity in Prices SYDNEY
Greasy merino fleece held its place in the wool sales to-day, but there was some irregularity in prices and in demand for inferior and doubtful yielding wools…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Strip Poker In Public To Prove Wool's Warmth LONDON
The International Wool Secretarial has engaged four handsome young men-about-town lo play strip-poker in the presence of a cocktail party in order to demonstrate the Warmth of wool. A GLASS screen will barricade the…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Magistrate Warns Dairyman Sydney
A warning that if he were guilty of further ill-treatment of his animals he would he sent to gaol was given Kinross Kay, dairyman, of Normanhurst, at…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Farm Mystery; Girl Disappears
BRISBANE, Wednesday. Mystery surrounds the disappearance of Alfia Patane, 16, daughter of Salvatore Patane, a cane farmer of…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Increase in Flour Follows Dearer Wheat
Trade was brisk on the Newcastle markets this morning and prices were generally easier. Plentiful supplies of…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Khaki Helps Wool Trade London, April 2
Territorial Army expansion England will have a definite effect on the wool textile industry. Many firms are engaged night and day in production of…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Sydney Wool Sales All Descriptions in Demand SYDNEY
An average selection, comprising 9931 bales, was offered at auction at the Sydney wool sales to-day. Sales at auction totalled 8100 bales, and an additional 604 bales were disposed of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Average Selection Sydney Wool Market Firm SYDNEY
Au average selection, comprising 9309 bales, was submitted for suction at the Sydney wool sales to-day. Sales by auction totalled 7590 bales, and an additional 794 were sold…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Night Journey by Police Inquiries About Missing Men Bag in River Contained Sheep Narromine
Police investigating the mysterious disappearance of three men from the Narromine district set out to-night on a 40-mile car…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Manning River Dairying Taree
The Manning River Cooperative Dairy Society paid 772 suppliers for March 1/0½ per lb for choicest, 110½d per lb for second-class, and 1/2 per lb for…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Two Shots Fired Stroud Farmer Wounded 15-Year-old Boy Charged
Newcastle police were informed late yesterday that two shots had been fired at Stroud early on Wednesday night, and that Lindsay Caldwell, 30, a dairy farmer…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Sydney Wool Prices Sydney
Greasy merino wool sold at the Sydney auction sales this week averaged £11/7/3 a bale or 9.2d per lb…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Advisory Committee May Collapse London
Fear of a breakdown of the Wheat Advisory Committee has arisen as a result of the dilatory nature of the discussions…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Crossbred Cow Has Remarkable Butter-Fat Yield Factory Tester Surprised
Cross-breeding between Jersey and Guernsey stock would become very popular with dairymen if they were assured of milk of the high butter-fat…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Buy No Wool at N.Z. SALES French Retaliation Threat Wellington (N.z.)
The proposal to restrict the importation of goods from France has angered French woolbuyers. To-day a threat to cease operations at the wool sales was issued by…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Butter Graded for Export Sydney
During the week ended April 22, Commonwealth graders examined for export 6242 boxes of salted and 102 boxes of unsalted butter at Sydney, and 3432 boxes of salted and 1336 boxes of…
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