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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Commercial Special Dairy Cattle Sale Grainger and Falkiner's Ltd. Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 February 1930 · page 3

Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., report having conducted a very successful special dairy cattle sale at the Shire yards on Friday last. The number forward…

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Wool Auctions Healthier Tone Competition Widening

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 February 1930 · page 3

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., reports:— On the 6th February we offered over 7000 bales representative of a wide…

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Australian Stocks Improve Gold Shipment Has Good Effect. Butter Unsatisfactory

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 February 1930 · page 2

Conditions and prospects on the London Stock Exchange are far more favourable than they have been for some time…

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South African Farmers Impressions of Australia

Singleton Argus · Monday 10 February 1930 · page 1

Every province of South Africa, as well as eastern and western Rhodesia, is represented in the personnel of the party of South African…

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Pastoral Industry. General Public and Wool. Home Truths Here. What of the Future.?

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 6

More people than ever before in Australia are thinking and talking wool. In cities and tovns, you hear it discussed, though the nearest…

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London Wool Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 5

The New England, North and North-West Producers' Co. Ltd. (Nenco) Newcastle, have received a cable from their London agents…

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Local and General Dungog Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 2

Good to prome beef realised 46/- to 54/- per 100 lbs, good to prime yearling beef 54/- to 60/- on the hoof at Homebush last Thursday. A draft of…

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Wool Sales. Firm at Late Values

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 3

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool, Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,571 hales, and the sales…

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Wool Auctions. Healthier Tone, Competition Widening

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 2

The secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. reports:— On the 6th. February we offered over 7000 bales, representative of a wide…

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Lucerne Seed. Hunter Valley Crops

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 4

Farmers are busy with their lucerne seed crops on the Baerami and Martindale Creek areas, where it is expected the harvest will be over…

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Farmers' Markets Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 6

There were heavy supplies of forage forward to Alexandria yesterday, but prices remained on a fairly steady hasls, although business was…

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A Good Farmer

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 2

No one would ever dream that Mr. Tom Arnold was a farmer, but they would form a different opinion if they saw his quarter acre of corn…

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P. D. S. Column Australian Dairy Council

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 February 1930 · page 6

The Minister for Markets and Transport the Hon. Parker Maloney)has announced that the Commonwealth Government has…

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Farmer Killed Crushed Under Motor Lorry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 2

Pathetic incidents were associated with a fatal motor accident on the Murwillumbah-Dunbible-road as a result of which James Smart farmer…

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Farmers' Markets Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 2

Business continued dull at Alexandria yesterday and prices for some varieties of forage relapsed a little Both eaten and wheaten chaff were…

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South African Farmers Impressed Australia More Advanced in Top-dressing

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 1

Eighteen South African farmers, who have been touring Victoria and New South Wales, arriving at Katoomba on Sunday…

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Junior Farmers' Club

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 12 February 1930 · page 2

Mr Geo. M. Blacklock, Supervising Teacher of School Agriculture, writes as follows to Mr J. Peacock, the hon. secretary of the Junior Farmer Club's…

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Butter Report

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 2

Sydney:—On the far South Coast the weather continues very dry and production is steadily falling off. Much the same conditions exist in the Riverina except…

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Another Elector. the World's Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 5

Sir.—World wool production during the last seven years has advanced from 8,479,000 bales to 11,000,000 bales—approximately 30 per…

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Wool Sales. Values Maintained in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 13 February 1930 · page 4

Wool sales were held at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,773 bales, and the sales…

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