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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

3,186 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 160

Burned to Death Farmer's Awful End

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 2

When Robert Mclville, well-known farmer of Hobbys Yards, near Blayney, failed to return to the homestead a search was made. His charred…

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Dairy Factory Apprentices

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 4

Provision has now been made under the Butter, Cheese, and Bacon Factory Workers' State award for the employment of apprentices in butter…

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Branxton Dairy Company

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 May 1929 · page 2

The monthly report of the Branxton Dairy Co. for March shows that 88,501 lb. of butter was manufactured, as compared with 74,020lb. for March…

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Homebush Sales. Cattle Cheaper: Sheep Dearer. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 6

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd, report:c cattle 3500 yarded, the bulk medium to useful quality. The market opened cheaper, good to prime beef made…

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Butter Trade Gradings for Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 5

During the week ending May 4, the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney for export 3680 boxes of butter, which included 3113 boxes of…

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P. D. S. Column Butter Quality

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 4

During the months of January and February a very severe analysis was made of Australian butter in London. It will be remembered that Mr. Wigan, the…

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Wool Sales. Market Unchanged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 May 1929 · page 3

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,192 bales and…

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Pastoral Mycotic Dermatitis. a Skin Disease of Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 3

Attention is drawn in the current "Agricultural Gazette" to a skin disease of sheep which, probably because of its comparative rarity, states the…

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Dairy Cattle. Jerseys

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

Bull, three years and over, [?] land's Glenroy Fox 1, Bull, 18 months and under 2, T. Hyland's, Glenroy Fancy's Milk Boy. Yearling Bull, T…

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Fat Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

Three fat oxen, W. Jupp and Sons, 1; J. K. Mackay, 2. Three fat cows, J. K. Mackay, 1; W. Jupp and Sous, 2. Fat ox, J.K. Mackay, 1; W. Jupp…

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Sheep Dipping

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

The damage effected by the blowfly among sheep flocks of Australasia is enormous, and a very conservatie estimate of the damage…

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Pastoral "Use More Wool." World-wide Campaign Suggested. Special Committee Submits Proposals

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 3

The recent Annual Conference of the Graziers' Association of N. S. Wales appointed a Wool. Publicity Committee to inquire into the possibilities of a…

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Pastoral. "Use More Wool" World-wide Campaign Suggested Special Committee Submits Proposals

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 2

The recent Annual Conference of the Graziers' Association of New South Wales appointed a Wool Publicity Committee to inquire into the…

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Wool Reports

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 10

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:— This company brought forward a catalogue on Monday last of 2718…

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Raising Fat Lambs Value of Good Feed. Special Branch of Sheep Farming

Singleton Argus · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

At the recent Hunter River and Lower North Coast Conference of the Agricultural Bureau of N. S. Wales Mr B. J. Stocks of Harden, delivered a…

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P. D. S. Column Butter Quality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 6

During the months of January and February a very severe analysis war made of Australian butter in London. It will be remembered that Mr…

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Sate Of Store Cattle Alteration at Flemington

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

The Sydney fat stock salesmen have arranged to classify store cattle and bulls, putting them in the new cattle yards on the Flemington…

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Pastoral Problems Discussed by Graziers. Noxious Weeds and Animals

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 4

You could not very well have the Annual Conference of the Graziers' Association and leave the rabbits out. Like the poor, the rabbits are…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Fo[?] the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 3

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

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Sydney Wool Sales. Values Generally Unchanged

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 May 1929 · page 2

The Secretary, Farmers & Graziers' Co-op. Co., writes 7/5/'29:—We offered a catalogue of 6139 bales on 6th inst., which can be described as…

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