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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 64 of 151

Found in Creek. Body of Milton District Farmer. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1927 · page 13

Edwin Ingold, 48, a well-known farmer, left his home at Cobar, in the Milton district, yesterday morning, and failed to return…

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Boys' Training Farm Officially Opened This Afternoon. Church of England Venture

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1927 · page 3

Maudeville, the property at Oakhampton, once owned by the late Hon. J. N. Brunker, has been secured by the Church of England diocese as a boys' training farm. It is to be used to extend the training received at St…

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Dairying. Hoven in Cows. Feed Succulent Foods with Caution

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1927 · page 7

Bloat, or hoven, is due to succulent foods eaten under certain conditions which cause the formation of large quantities of gas in the [?]men…

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Blackleg in Calves. Better Farming Train Advice

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1927 · page 9

From the number of inquiries received on the Better Farming train at Kempsey as to the best method of protecting calves against blackleg, it…

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Sheep Washing

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 6

Friday, 2nd.—I rode out to the sheep shed with Messrs. Chas. Hall and Darch. Nine shearers only are employed, as we have been…

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Duty on Butter

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 3

The P.P.U. head office submitted the following resolution which was carried at last session of the Central Executive! "That the Central…

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Special Store Cattle Sale

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 2

Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., Singleton, advertise elsewhere in this issue that they will be yarding 1600 beautiful quality cattle in the Shire…

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Selling the Wool

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 6

Wednesday, 24th.—It gave us all great pleasure to hear, by several private communications, or the improved quality and condition of the…

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Bullock in Wheat Paddock

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 6

Wednesday, 14th.—I was obliged to-day to take notice of a complaint made by Mr. Henry Hull, that Mr. Tozer had allowed a working…

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Wheat Pest. Attacks at Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 6

The Senior Assistant Entomologist (Mr. T. McCarthy) is again in the Tamworth district in connection with the grubs of central root…

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Sheep on Dorrigo. More Money in Cows

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 2

After paying a future visit to the to the Dorrigo district Mr.Elliott, sheep and wool expert, of the Department of Agriculture, has arrived at the following…

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A.W.U. Claims. for Pastoral Industry. Hearing Begun. Sydney Tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 4

The hearing opened in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, before Chief Judge Dothridge. of the claims of the A.W.U. for a new award in…

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Gigantic Problem 19,000 Sheep Transport by Motor to Escape Drought

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 7

To shift 10,000 sheep 300 miles over drought-stricken country is the gigantic project of Mr. Sol. Green, the well-known Melbourne…

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Dairy Industry Marked Improvement in Quality. Result of Modern Methods SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 5

The annual conference of the Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association of New South Wales was opened in the R.A.S. show ground…

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Illicit Still. Italian Farmer Charged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1927 · page 3

Houry Lucan, farmer and fumigation contractor, one of the best., known members of the large Itallan community in the irrigation areas at…

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Imported Butter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 3

The Lower Hunter and Gloucester district council of the Primary Producers' Union had adopted the following resolution: "That the central…

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RABBITS v. SHEEP

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

Mr. Mr M. Wills, of Moss Vale, writes (in the "Sydney Morning Herald") —If you will kindly allow me I will endeavour to reply, through your…

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Slightly Easier Sydney Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 3

Wheat in Sydney was a shade easier on Tuesday in Sympathy with the tone of the market oversea, quotations dropping [?] buyers Ilmits in…

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Pastoral. Lamb-raising Trials. Dorset Horn and Ryeland Crosses

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

The results of lamb-raising trials conducted at the Bathurst Experiment Farm during 1926 were published in the May issue of the "Agricultural…

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Diseases of Sheep. Principally Those of Dietetic Origin

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

In no class of live stock are preventive measures against disease more necessary than in the case of sheep, for the sheep does not show many very…

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