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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

3,186 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 64 of 160

Farmers' Co-operatives in U.s.a

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 3

Co-operative organisation in marketing has a very firm hold in the United States, and one of the proposals for the improvement of…

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Winter Schools For Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 5

Arrangements are being made for the usual Winter School for farmers to be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College. Richmond, from 2nd…

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Fined a "Fiver" Dirty Dairy at Mount View

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 11 June 1929 · page 5

On a charge of having unclean milk yards, Thomas King, dairyman, of Mount View, was, at Cessnock Police Court to-day, fined £5…

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Russia's Farming Project

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 2

Having refused an offer to become a sort of agricultural dictator in Soviet Russia for five years, T. D. Campbell, a wheatgrower, from…

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Branxton Dairy Co., Ltd

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 June 1929 · page 2

During May the Branxton Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured 50,772lbs butter, as against 66,250lbs for May last year. Suppliers were paid 1/5½ nett for…

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Homebush Sales. Sheep Cheaper Cattle Dearer. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 6

Winchcombe, Cardon, Ltd,, report. —Cattle: 3800 yarded, the bulk medium to useful quality. The market was dearer, bullocks…

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Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 3

Messrs Prescott Ltd. report under date 6th June, 1929:— Sydney:—On the far northern rivers pastures are in good order and stock are…

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Branxton Butter Supplies

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 6

During May the Branxton Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured 50,7721bs butter, as against 66,2501bs for May last year, Suppliers were paid 1/5½…

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P. D. S. Column. Butter Quality Investigation

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 4

When an officer from any State is appointed to net in a federal ponton, Inter state criticism naturally arises. In the case of the Feedral Dairy Officer in London, Mr…

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Boiled Wheat and Golden Syrup. Family Saved From Star Vation. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 June 1929 · page 7

Policewoman Davidson stated to-day that she had been informed by a woman, who came to her for assistance that she had been feeding…

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Butter Competitions

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 4

The Butter Classes at the Dairy Produce Exhibition in connection with the Annual Conference of the N.S.W. Dairy Factory Managers…

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Averaging Income From Agricultural, Dairying, or Pastoral Pursuits

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 6

Where the income of a taxpayer is derived wholly or in part from any agricultural, dairying, or pastoral pursuit carried on by him, he is…

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Synthetic Butter Menace to Dairying. Marketed in Melbourne

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 1

Synthetic butter, made from copra, has recently been sold on the Melbourne market, and dairymen are becoming alarmed at its…

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Butter and Cheese Supplies Short

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus

The present position in Australia indicates a winter shortage of both butter and cheese, South Australia has had a very bad season, and…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 June 1929 · 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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Agricultural. Feeding-off Growing Wheat. Some Important Points

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 6

A crop may usually be said to be ready to be fed off when it is about 6 inches high. At is a common, error for farmers to turn sheep on to wheat…

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Pastoral "Unity and Co-operation Tor Country Advancement Slogan of the Producers' Organisations

Singleton Argus · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 2

"We shall have to apply all the unity and co-operation that can be brought to bear on the very serious problems with which we are faced…

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Rail or Motor? Wool Traffic Wanted. Appeal to Graziers. Goulburn

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 8

Evidence of the effect which motor competition is having on the railways is provided by a crcular which the Southern Area Commissioner (Mr. J. D…

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"Reso" Train. Report by Chairman of Australian Dairy Council. Interesting Observations

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 14 June 1929 · page 4

In connection with the late tour of the "Reso" party, Mr. John Rankin, Chairman of the Australian Dairy Council, writes:—…

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