Fat Cattle Easier at Maitland
Large supplies of fat cattle were forwarded to the Campbell's Hill saleyards, West Maitland, yesterday, and values were slightly easier. Values were unaltered for lambs…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1941
388 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 2 of 20
Help with Britain's Huge Crop London
Australian-made machinery will have an important share in harvesting Britain's heavy crop this year…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Food for Sheep by Plane Brisbane
A station owner in the Cunnamulla district telegraphed to Qantas Airways yesterday asking for a plane to fly a ton of feed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →No Site Yet for Wool Firm Abattoir Sub-committee to Visit Sydney
A further step towards securing the establishment of a large wool-scouring firm in Newcastle will be made this week when members of the Newcastle Abattoir…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →"Flying Farmer" Wins D.f.c
WELLINGTON (N.Z.), Tuesday.—The D.F.C. has been awarded to Flight Lieutenant Leonard Ernle Clarke. Clarke is known as the "Flying Farmer." On one…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Need Sun, Not More Rain Crops on Lower Hunter
Some crops may be seriously affected by the steady rain that fell on the Lower Hunter district all yesterday. Farmers said that enough rain had been received…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Dairy Farmers Work Overtime, Too
LISMORE, Wednesday.—"If the Government capitulates to the claims leading to the ban by metal trade workers on overtime, dairy farmers will be provided…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Cattle Firm at Singleton
SINGLETON, Friday.—There was a heavier yarding of fat cattle at Singleton stock sales. The market showed little alternation on last week's extreme rates. There was a fairly…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Federal Wheat Board Personnel
SYDNEY, Friday.—The Minister for Commerce (Sir Earle Page) to-night announced the personnel of the Federal Wheat Stabilisation Board, as follows…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Potatoes Cleared From Floors Rain Increases Butter Supply; Damages Vegetables
A moderate shipment of potatoes from Tasmania, arriving on a bare market in Newcastle this week, met a particularly keen demand, At the close of trading yesterday…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Muswellbrook Dairy Output Soaring
MUSWELLBROOK. Sunday.—Showers at Muswellbrook at the week-end brought the January rainfall to 298 points. So far there have been 12 wet days this month. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →N.S.W. Wheat Return Low Sydney
Effect of the drought is indicated by the progress crop returns of wheatgrowers, issued to-day by the Government Statistician (Mr. S. R. Garver)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Site for Wool Firm Still Undecided
To discuss the question of a site for the proposed fellmongering and wool scouring plant, Newcastle Abattoir Subcommittee will meet at the abattoir on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Help for Soldier-farmers Voluntary Care of Holdings
SYDNEY, Sunday.—The organisation set up by the Government to assist in the management of farms, whose owners have joined for service overseas, had…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wool Store Dispute
A special meeting of Newcastle branch of the Bricklayers' Society last night decided chat employees at Stewart Bros.' new wool store, Maryville, should remain on strike…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool Facilities Adequate Criticism of Newcastle Refuted
Claims of a Sydney wool-selling company that Newcastle lacked facilities for the shipment of wool and that dumping arrangements were inadequate were denied…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm Failures Removed From Essex London
Essex War Agricultural Committee, acting under the regulations, has taken over 8000 acres and terminated the leases of 30…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wheat for Spain
MADRID, Jan. 29. A.A.P.—It is officially announced that 50,000 tons of wheat from British purchasers in Argentina will shortly arrive in Spain in Spanish…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →States Review Wheat Plan Judgment Deferred
CANBERIRA, Wednesday.—The Australian Agricultural Council to-day deferred consideration of the detailed operation of the wheat industry stabilisation…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Savings to Wool Growers Newcastle Shipment
Two points in the published statement of a Sydney wool-selling company regarding bidding for wool at Newcastle and the cost of forwarding the wool to…
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