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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 79 of 151

Lifeless. Sydney Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 July 1927 · page 3

The wheat market in Sydney displayed very little life on Tuesday. Growers, however, who still have wheat in store showed more…

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Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 4

Messrs. Present and Co. report under date:—9th July, 1927:— SYDNEY: The dairy instructore reports for June go to show that cold and frosty…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 4

Cabled advices from Loudon reveal a very satisfactory tone at the auctions which opened there on the 5th instant, and there was an active demand from…

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Singleton Special Store Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 2

Messrs Grainger, and Falkiner Ltd., Singleton, in conjunction with Messrs Dalgety and Company, Sydney, will offer by auction in the Shire yards,…

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Large Purchase of Store Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 8

Mr. A. W. Swaddling of Muswell-brook, and .Mr. W. P. Bowman, of Balmoral Station, recently made a long tour by car in search of store…

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Wheat for Africa. Argentine Competes with Australia. Africa's Huge Maize Harvest. Capetown, July 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 5

The Argentine is making every effort to take Australia's place as the supplier of South Africa's wheat. She has chartered ships, loaded…

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New York Flight. Farman Brothers Determined. New York. July 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 5

The Farman brothers are determined to attempt the New York flight with the Goliath aeroplane, despite the loss of Drouin, who contracted to…

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Dairy Bulls

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 July 1927 · page 3

Mr. Roy S. Vincent M. L. A. is in receipt of the following from the Department of Agriculture:— Dear Sir:—…

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Pastoral. Sheep Fluke. Prevention Better Than Carbon Tetrachloride

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 8

Recent investigations have indicated that chemically pure carbon tetrachloride is an efficient drug for use against fluke in sheep. Tests in this…

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Pastoral. Call to Science. the Big Scheme

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 10

Further particulars as to how the organised Australian graziers and wool brokers propose to enlist science more efficiently in the services of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 6

These notes are issued every week by direction of the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department…

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Breeding for Lambs. Growing Industry on the Wheat Belt. Mr. J. Clatworthy on Border Leicesters

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 5
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

A few years ago, Mr. Clatworthy, of "Beechmore," in the Parkes district, was practically the only breeder from that area,…

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The Shylock of Dairying. Exacts His Pound of Flesh

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 3

Last week we had something to say regarding the points raised by Mr. C. J. MacDermott in his lecture on "Dairying in New South Wales" when the…

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Freak Apple Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 4

What may be regarded as a strange phenomenon has occurred at T[?]gra. During last year an apple tree on Mr. J. E. Irwin's property…

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To Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 2

Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory announce that they can supply all Kinds of farm machinery, also seeds of every variety, fertilisers, and all…

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Dairying. the Cow in Calf. Dry Her Off Properly Before Calving

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 6

It is often the simplest tasks on the farm that get least attention. Take, for instance, the work of drying-off the cow prior to calving. Not every…

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Dairyman's Injury

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 July 1927 · page 5

When Thomas Woodbury, 37, dairy man, living at Laguna, was using an arise on Wednesday, the implement slipped and severely gashed his left…

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MILK v. BUTTER

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 July 1927 · page 5

An "economic note" struck fit the successful function celebrating the erection of the new factory at Borry for the handling of milk and casein was the…

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MILK v BUTTER

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 July 1927 · page 7

An "economic note" struck at the successful function celebrating the erection of the new factory ar Berry for the handling of milk and casein…

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