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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1930

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Brisbane Wool Sales Good General Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 3

Winchcombe carson, Ltd., received the following wire from its Brisbane office:—"Good general competition opening Brisbane wool…

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Pastoral Industry. Graziers on the Job. for Better Marketing. Meat and Other Matters

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 4

Matters discussed by the last meeting of the general council of the Graziers' Association are clear indication of the increased and increasing…

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Clothing Costs and Wool Prices. Graziers Complain of Dis-parity

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 5

Woolgrowers have been commenting upon what seems to them a remarkable disparity in the amount paid for the raw product and the prices charged for…

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Denman Dairy Production

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 2

The Denman Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured during December 95,054 lbs. of choicest and 21,675 lbs. of second grade butter. This shows a decrease…

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Gloucester. Dairy Factory Returns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 January 1930 · page 8

The Gloucester Dairy Co. manufactured 186,1441b. of butter for the month of December, suppliers being paid at the rate of 1/3 per lb, for…

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Commercial. Cattle at Homebush

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 6

Good to prime boat sold from 45/ to 52/ per 100lbs, good to prime yearling beef 58/ to 60/ on the boat at Homebush last Monday. Winchcombe…

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Wool Sales. Brisbane Market Unchanged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 3

In Brisbane 15,550 bales were submitted at the wool sales. The selection was slightly better than that offered yesterday, there being more…

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Wool Sales 10 TO 20 Per Cent Decline. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 2

The wool sales opened showing from 10 to 20 per cent, decline…

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Farmers' Markets Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 January 1930 · page 3

Supplies were not very heavy At Alexandria yesterday, but the market was still dull, few buyers making an appearance. Prices, however, were…

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Butter Report

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 1

Sydney:—The dairying districts, with the exception of the Hunter, have experienced very nice rains, and as a [?] pro[?]n is increasing. Cattle, in most [?]s…

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Wool Market. Position of the Industry. Sales in London. London. Jan. 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 2

The Drat series of wool sales in London opened tills afternoon. There was a good representative selection of all sorts, except superior merinos…

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Assistant Dairy Instructor

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 4

In the recent examination in the Dairy Produce Manufacture Course, held at hawkesbury Agricultural College, Mr. J. S. Wilson, of Dungog…

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Trade Treaty Canadian Farmers Dissatisfied. Calgary (Canada), Jan. 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 January 1930 · page 8

The United Farmers of Alberta, at their annual convention, decided to ask the Federal Government to renounce the Australian Trade Treaty…

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Our Reduced Wealth Wool, Wheat and Coal

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 8

In an address to members of the Rotary Club, Mr. H. W. Gepp, formerly chairman of the Migration and Development Commission, submitted some…

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Muswellbrook Butter Output

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

During the month of December £5204/7/10 was distributed to suppliers by the Muswellbrook Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. Payment was made…

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Wool Market

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 7

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

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan & M.A. Co. Ltd., report 23rd inst. The extraordinary position that has been established in the wool trade during the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 3

These notes are issued every week, by direction of the Hon. the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Should any fanner desire information relevant to his work on the land not referred to in these notes at the time, a query addressed to the…

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Leave Wool Alone. a Polite Request

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 4

A somewhat unique deputation waited upon the Prime Minister on Saturday (says the "Evening News.") It represented the wool-growers of…

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Wool Sales Prices Unchanged. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 8

At the wool sales there were large offerings of greasy merinos, principally Continental spinners' sorts, with a small offering of crossbreds…

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