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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

2,965 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 69 of 149

Raymond Terrace Dairy Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 June 1928 · page 4

The factory report of the Raymond Terrace Dairy and Produce Company, Ltd., for the month of May, is as follows:—Markets: Butter 1/7 lb,…

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Homebush Sales. Cattle and Woolly Merino Unaltered. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 June 1928 · page 4

Winchoombe, Carson, Ltd., report: Cattle: 3900 yarded, the bulk medium to useful quality. The market was unaltered at the opening sales…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 June 1928 · page 2

Light supplies were received at Alexandria, owing, mainly, to the weather conditions, and prices as a consequence showed a firming…

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Dominion Farmers Visit to London Markets. Developing Trade. London, June 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 June 1928 · page 5

The Dominion farmers, as guests of the Corporation of London, visited the Smithfield most market, and the Spitalfield's fruit and potato market…

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Bobs' Farm

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 June 1928 · page 2

At the election of hall trustees on Friday night Messrs. Blanch, Fitzgerald and Velds were returned unopposed. The new school is nearing completion and…

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Diseases in Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 4

Mr. James Faulkner, stock Inspector to the Maitland Pastures Protection Board, reported that since last meeting he had dealt with fresh…

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Wool Industry Expansion

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 2

Bradford interests are suggesting that "stronger endeavours" should be made to extend the productive side of the wool industry in Australia. Further…

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Slightly Easier. Sydney Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 7

The Sydney wheat market was slightly weaker yesterday. There was practically nothing doing where farmers' lots were…

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Butter Industry. Producers' Representatives. Visit to Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 2

Mr. C. E. D. Mearcs, general manager of the Producers' Distributing Company, and General Macarthur Onslow, director of the same company, and Mr…

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Pastoral Control of Grasshoppers. The Urgent Need for Co-operation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 6
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

Every season there appear in the Press departmental warnings concerning the necessity for timely control measures if damage from grasshoppers…

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Pastoral Industry. Australian Interests in Conference. There Is Federal Organisation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 2
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

Australian pastoral interests have been meeting in conference in Sydney this week. First came the annual convention of the Graziers' Federal…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 6

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

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On Farm and Station. Dairying. Thriftless Farming. The Penalty Paid by Stock

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 9

In introducing in a recent issue of these notes a discussion on the maintenance of soil fertility in wheatgrowing districts, reference was made…

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Dairying. Thriftless, Farming. The Penalty Paid by Stock

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 6

In introducing in a recent issue of these notes a discussion on the maintenance of soil fertility in wheat-growing districts, reference was made…

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Help for Wool Industry. Federal Action Taken CANBERRA, June 11

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 2

"Prosperity of the primary industries means prosperity for Australia," declares the weekly bulletin of the Federal Country Party…

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New Zealand Dairying. Australian Investigation

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 12

At the request' of the Australian Dairy Council, Messrs. A. E. Sweaney (manager of the Inverell Butter and Bacon Factory) and J. H. Proud…

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Farmers' Markets Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 6

Even lighter supplies than on Wednesday were available at Alexandria, but prices for forage lines showed little improvement. Neither oaten…

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Miscellaneous. Farm Forstry. Protection and Care of Planted Trees

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 June 1928 · page 6

Any care exercised in planting trees is rendered ineffective unless they are protected from injury, and a degree of assistance is given to their proper…

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