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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

3,186 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 160

Butter Factories Amalgamation

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 4

The Hunter district butter factories are furthering the move to amalgamate, for which their aim is greater control. The meeting of the amalgamation committee…

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Wool Sales. Japanese Operations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 3

Wool salon, were hold yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,637 bales, and the sales,…

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Half a Billion. Canada's Great Wheat Wheat Yield. Ottawa, Jan. 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 7

Canada's yield of wheat for 1928 was 533,571,700 bushels. This is the fist time the half-billion mark has been passed, it is…

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Wheat Market. Firmer in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 3

The wheat market appeared to be somewhat firmer yesterday, and limits of buyers for growers' bagged lots were advanced generally to the…

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Wool Sales. Brisk Continental Demand. London, Jan. 28

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 7

At the wool sales, 11,487 bales were offered, of which 8820 were Australian and 2479 New Zealand. There was a splendid selection of…

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Man Shot. Quarrel on Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 3

When Arthur Vincent Murray, 55, of Gosnells (W.A.), arrived at a farm conducted by his wife and Walter Bruce Phillips, 29, it is alleged…

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Farmers Prospective for Coal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 6

During the sitting of the Warden's Court at the East Maitland Courthouse to-day, an applicant for authority to enter land at Black Hill,…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 January 1929 · page 5

Prices for forage were generally easier, due to the weather, at Alexandria, though quotations were practically unaltered, at the most a…

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Pastoral. Stomach Worm in Sheep. Method of Treatment

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 6

Warmth and moisture are necessary for the development of the stomach worm, and a wet summer is generally followed by its increased prevalence,…

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Pastoral Gland Grafting in Sheep Those Voronoff Experiments

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3

When Voronoff first talked of his experiments in gland grafting the general tendency was to ridicule the idea. Since then, however, scientists in…

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Pastoral. Gland Grafting in Sheep Those Voronoff Experiments

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

When Voronoff first talked of his experiments in gland grafting the general tendency was to ridicule the idea. Since then, however, scientists in…

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Pastoral Stomach Worm in Sheep. Method of Treatment

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

Warmth and moisture are necessary for the development of the stomach worm, and a wet summer is generally followed by its increased prevalence,…

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Sheep Ply Pest

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3

Forbes local committee of the Graziers' Association suggested that a reward be offered for the discovery of an effective means of blow-fly destruction…

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Sheep Fly Pest

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

Forbes Local Committee of the Graziers' Association suggested that a reward be offered for the discovery of an effective means of…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 8

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:— We submitted a catalogue of 6509 bales on Monday last, which was…

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Singleton Wool

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3

The Rockmount clip from E. and C. Bower, Goorangoola, was among the offerings at Winchcombe, Carson's Sydney auction on Tuesday. The hoggets…

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Improving Our Beef Cattle

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3
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Mr C. F. G. Grant, State Herd Mastor, who has returned from a trip to Canada and the United States, where he inspected and passed for purchase a…

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Unbranded Sheep. £50 Penalty. Albury

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 3

At the Police Court, before Mr. C. W. Swiney, P.M., Albury Pastures Protection Board proceeded against W. Beaver for failing to keep legibly…

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Dairying and Pastoral Notes (Issued by the Department of Agriculture.) Dairying Herd Testing. Its Objects and Application

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 January 1929 · page 4

Two herd-recording schemes are at present operating in New South Wales —the first is a scheme under which pure-bred stud cattle are tested so that…

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