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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1929

3,186 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 87 of 160

Boy Scouts. Visit to Model Farm. Australian Menu. London, Aug. 7

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 August 1929 · page 5

Most of the Boy Scout contingents to-day visited Port Sunlight, and saw Viscount Leverbulme's model town…

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Canberra Hog Farm

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 August 1929 · page 4

The Federal Capital Commission has established a hog farm at Canberra at a cost of £7,000 to £8,000 consisting of 120 acres all necessary outhouses, and every…

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Bounty on Wheat Farmers and Settlers' Discussion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 2

"It is something they have already taken from our pockets for the benefit of other industries," said Mr, H. A. Travers (Young), who moved at…

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Use More Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

Perhaps the most significant development during the last several weeks in the proposed "Use More Wool" campaign was the resolution…

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Inconsistency! Wool Publicity

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 4

A city merchant, a heavy dealer in woollens, fumed in this fashion a few days ago:—"What a joke—what a force—is this proposed publicity scheme…

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Pastoral. Against Rabbit Farming. Voice of the Man on the Land. Will Information Be Prohibited?

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 3

SO strongly do our organised men on the land feel about rabbit farming that a deputation from the Producers' Associations Central Council will go to…

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Pastoral. Against Rabbit Farming Voice of the Man on the Land Will Importation Be Prohibited?

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 2

So strongly do our organised men on the land feel about rabbit farming that a deputation from the producers' Associations Central Council will go…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 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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Pastoral. Important During Shearing. Care of the Ewes and Lambs

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 6

Special thought should be given during shearing to ewes with lambs at foot. Dry ewes and wethers present little trouble so long as it is seen that…

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Wool and Prices for Goods. Raw Material not Blamahle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 10

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. imports:The price of the raw material and clothing made from wool has undoubtedly been a hindrance to their…

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Tubercle-Free Milk. Favored by Dary Farmers. (To the Editor)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 2

Sir.—I am indeed very pleased to note that the local Municipal Council is moving in the matter of a pure milk food, insofar as Muswellbrook is…

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Wire In lucerne Bales. Losses of Dairy Stock

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 7

Mr. A. H. Collett, secretary of the Metropolitan and Suburban Dairymen's Association, writes:— The dairymen in the metropolitan and…

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Land Matters. Motions at Farmers and Settlers' Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 2

At the Farmers and Settlers' Conference, Mr. T. I. Campbell said that extreme conditions govern permissive occupancies…

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Proposed Milk Bill Outlined to Dairymen

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 6

The provisions of the proposed Milk Bill were outlined to members of the Dungog Branch of the Milk Suppliers' Association at the annual…

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Free Information for Farmers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 6

Not every farmer is aware that there is a free information service at his disposal. Local experiment and research and contact with that of other…

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Wire in Lucerne Bales Losses of Valuable Dairy Stock

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 4

In a letter to the metropolitan press, Mr. A. H. Collett, Secretary of the Metropolitan and Suburban Dairymen's Association, draws attention to…

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Dairyman Robbed. Youth Confesses to Theft. Money Hidden in Cow Yard

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 5

While Sidney Frederick Walker was asleep in a house attached to his dairy at Lidcombc on Tuesday night, a thief entered his bedroom and stole about…

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Farmers Protest. Against Mass Picketing

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 August 1929 · page 8

At the Farmers' and Settlers' Association's conference in Sydney a motion protesting against mass picketing was carried unanimously…

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Wheat Pool. Farmers Favour Referendum Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1929 · page 1

The Farmers and Settlers' Conference carried a motion urging that a referendum he held throughout the Commonwealth the question of…

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