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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Butter Report

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 4

Messrs. Prescott Ltd. report under date 4th January, 1930, as follows:— Sydney:— As a result of splendid rains on the far North Coast, pastures which…

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Wool Values. Caution of Buyers. London, Jan. 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 8

Mr. George Whittaker, addressing the British Wool Federation on his re-election to the presidency, replied to a suggestion in the Australian…

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Fruit Crop Prospects

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 1

From a report issued in November by the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture, prospects for the coming season apple crop are that it will be about 3,250,000…

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Australian Delegation of Co-operative Dairying Interests Visit to New Zealand

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 9 January 1930 · page 3

A delegation, including dairymen, factory directors, and factory managers representative of the co-operative interest in the dairying industry from all States,…

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Sydney Wool Sales Blandford Wool Realises 25d

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 2

The A.M.L. & F. Co., Ltd., report (by wire), having sold, at their sale yesterday, on account T. Murphy, Burnewang, from Blandford, 8 bales at…

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Newcastle Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 6

The New England, North and North West Producers' Co. Ltd. report that matters are being finalised in connection with the catalogue to…

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Newcastle Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 12

The New England, North and North West Producers' Co. Ltd. report that matters are being finalised in connection with the catalogue to…

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Sold Most Number. Fat Cattle—high Prices

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 12

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy. writes:— For the year ended 31st. December, 1929, we, at Flemington (Sydney),…

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Merriwa Wool. Prices in 1885

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 9

Wool prices were the topic, and Mr. E. Potts, of "Alndale," Merriwa, chatting with our representative, recalled looking up old records of the…

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Wool Report. Past and Present

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 5

Schute, Bell & Co., Ltd., report: Hope for better times in 1930 supersedes unregretful farewell to 1929. Combination of persistently adverse seasonal…

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Stud Southdown Sheep Imported From England for Merriwa

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 5

Per the s.s. Ferndale, which reached Sydney on Boxing Day, there arrived probably the biggest shipment of stud Southdown sheep from England that…

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Australia's Wool Clip Receipts Much Less

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

"Australia's receipts for wool this season, from Europe, Japan, and the United States, will, it is estimated in various quarters, total fully £15,000,000…

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Wool and Cotton. Cotton Relatively Dearer

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report. 7th January, 1930.—The most heartening aspect of the wool position is that the value of the…

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Wheat Supplies. Canadian Delegation for Britain. Vancouver, Jan 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

The Canadian Wheat Pool has announced that, at the request of the Lord Privy Seal (Mr. J. H. Thomas last September, three representatives…

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Wool Sales Resumed. Little Change in Pre-holiday Conditions

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 10
Also in The Scone Advocate

The secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. writes on the 6th. January:— Much interest centred in the…

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Tariff and Wool. "Creating a Vicious Circle." a Striking Illustration

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 7

It is not generally recognised how high or heavy the tariff has now become on imported woollens. It will come as a surprise, if not as a shock,…

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Looking Ahead. 100 Years Hence. New Materials. Will the Cow and Sheep Disappear?

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

We have pretty well accomplished oil those inventive dreams of our great grandfathers. They thought of steam carriages which would replace…

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Meeting of Farmers. Swan Reach Flood Gates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 4

Mr. W. F. O'Hearn, M.L.A., attended a meeting of farmers and residents of Osterley, Swan Reach, and district, held at the residence of Mr…

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What a Farmer Is

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 5

A capitalist that labors. A man that works eight hours a day twice a day. A man who has every element of…

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