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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,508 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 42 of 126

Tracking Cattle Thieves Police Have Rough Experience. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 2

Sergeamt Small, of Wee Waa, and Detective Sergeant Truscott, of Sydney, who returned to Sydney to-day, after spending several days in rough country…

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Farmer Students. Hawkesbury College Diploma Day

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 4

Diploma Day was celebrated at Hawkesbury Agricultural College Wednesday in brilliant weather. Visitors were present in unprecedented…

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Bush Affray. Attack on Farmer. Head Severely Gashed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 May 1924 · page 7

Frederick Stephen Wells, a farmer, who is well-known in the Goulburn district, has been admitted to the District Hospital, where he lies in a…

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Agricultural Sheep on the Wheat Farm. Fodder Crops Essential for the Best Results

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 6

As frequently pointed out in these notes, sheep should be regarded as an indispensable feature of the wheat farm. In this relation the production…

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Wool Arrivals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 7

Arrivals of woo] by rail and sen at Sydney during the past week amounted be £390 bales, bringing the total so far this season to 662.131 bales, as…

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Ergot in Wheat

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 6

Hard, dark violet excrescences, which usually fracture easily and are white inside, make their appearance from time to time upon the ears of…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 5

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report 1st May:— Sales in Melbourne this week have hardly proved a true criterion of the strength of general…

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The Question of Butter Storage

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 4

With the onset of colder weather, and accounts to hand of decreased production both in New South Wales and Queensland, butter has been in brisk local…

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Cattle Thieves Detectives' Wild Search

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 7

Detectives Sergeant Small, of Wee Waa, and Truscott, of Sydney, who returned to Sydney after spending several days in rough country on the…

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Wonder Cow. Unprecedented Yield of Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 2

The wonder cow of the Darbulara herd of milking Shorthorns, Melba XV. continues her unprecedented yield of butter fat…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Cases at Tenterfield

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 2

Stanford Butler, on remand, was charged at Tenterfield with stealing 120 head of cattle, the property of A. Smith, Chevlott Hills Station,…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Cases at Tenterfield

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 5

Stanford Butler, on remand, was charged at Tenterfield with stealing 120 head of cattle, the property of A. Smith, Chevlott Hills Station,…

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Milk and Butter Tests All Records Broken

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 9

The Scottish Australian Investment Co.'s Milking Shorthorn cow Melba XV. of Darbalara maintains Tier reputation as a world-beater,…

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Cattle Disappear. Hidden Valley Discovered. Three Men Arrested

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 4

Detective-Sergeant Small, of Wee Waa, and Detective-Sergeant Truscott, of Sydney, who returned to Sydney on Wednesday, after…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 6

These Noter are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based largely on the experiences the Department. LIVE STOCK…

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Wool Position Sound. Limited Lull in Demand

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report : — Viewed from a strictly statistical angle, optimism should hold full sway in the wool trade…

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Pastoral Pageant. Successful Annual R.c. Appeal. Over £1000 in Hand. Popular Man, Mr. W. J. O'brien

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 2

The annual R.C. sports and subsidiary functions conducted in conjunction therewith were fialised at the Olympia Theatre last night by…

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Memorable Gathering at Martindale. District's Wonderful Resources. Rich in Agricultural, Pastoral and Mining Possibilities. Speakers Urge Construction of Bridge. to Span Go Ulburn River

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 9

Much enthusiasm prevailed in Martindale last Monday night. The occasion was one on which the Progress Association there entertained a large…

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Boy Migrants As Apprentices for Farm Work

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 6

It has been generally recognised that the most satisfactory form of immigration for increasing rural production in Australia is the…

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Dairy Herd Testing. District Possibilities. How to Be Achieved

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 5

The progress of our district in dairying very largely depends the progress and extension of the practice of systematic herd testing,…

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