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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

2,711 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 36 of 136

Farm and Garden

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 2

Many who walked in to the farm and garden pavilion missed something. Ever since the show has been in existence there have been lucerne…

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Scone Junior Farmers' Club. Easter Show Camp

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 1

At the Royal Easter Show the Junior Farmers' Club camp, which is financed by the R.A.S. of N.S. Wales, will embrace 25 representatives from New…

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Thirteen 'Planes Searching. What a Farmer and His Son Saw

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1931 · page 3

There are now 13 'planes endeavouring to locate the Southern Cloud. A farmer living in the Yea district of Victoria, where the Southern Cloud…

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Another Advance Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 8

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,462 bales, and the…

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FINED £20 Cattle Stealing Butcher's Lapse Kuiiri Kurri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 4

Frauds Partington was charged at Kurri Kurri Police Court to-day, with stealing three head of cattle, the property of Walter Draper, miner,…

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Wool Sales Good Competition LONDON, March 34

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 1

At the wool sales 10.266 bales were offered, of which [?] 974 per cont were sold. There was a large offering of…

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Wool Sales (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 3

At the wool sales, 10,266 bales were offered and approximately per cent, sold. There was a large offering of super…

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Wool Still Higher Feverish Buying. Season's Record Prices

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 3

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy., reports:— On 23rd March we offered 7150 bales of wool, and effected full clearances…

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News in Brief Sale of Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1931 · page 4

Mr. J. P. idstein reports having sold for Mr. A. C. Payne his agricultural farm of 19 acres, also his cottage property situated…

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Butter Report

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 4

Messrs. Prescott and Co. report under date 21st March, 1931. Sydney:—Production is holding up very well and indications' arc that present…

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Fine Display Australian Butter Orient Co. Prizes London. March 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 1

Sir Granville Ryrie, Australian high commissioner, presided over a large gathering of butter men and business men at a display of Australian butter…

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Home Trade Chief Wool Buyers Brisk Demand London , March 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 March 1931 · page 1

At the wool sales 9947 bales were offered, approximately 97½ percent of which sold there was a good supply of greasy…

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Dairy Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 8

Jerseys.—Bull, 3 years and over, Humphries and Pugh 1, G. Simpson 2; bull, 1 year and under 2, Roy Wilkins; bull calf, under 1 year, Roy…

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Fat Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 8

Durham bullock, White Bros.; crossbred bullock, White Bros; steer, under 3 years, White Bros; heifer, under 3 years, Gundebri Estate Co., Ltd.;…

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Fat Sheep

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 8

Merinos: Wethers, John Lonergan; ewes, John Lonergan; lambs, John Lonergan; wethers, 4-tooth, John Lonergan; wethers, 2-tooth, John…

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Wheat for Cows Dairymen Can Help

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 4

The present position of wheatgrowers is an unenviable and, perhaps, unprecedented one. Millions of bushels of last year's bumper…

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Dairying (Supplied by the Department of Agriculture.) Wheat for Cows. Dairymmen can Help Wheat-growers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 4

The present position of wheat-growers is an unenviable and, perhaps, unprecedented one. Millions of bushels of last year's bumper harvest are…

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Wool Sales

Singleton Argus · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 3

The Australian Mercantile Land and Finance Co. Ltd., reports:— We offored a catalogue of 4065 bales on Tuesday, which consisted of…

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Agricultural. Nitrogen and Wheat. a Farmer's Observations

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 6

In view of the negative results obtained in the past from the use of nitrogenous fertilisers for wheat, the observations of Mr. W. W. Watson, of…

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News in Brief Hereford Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1931 · page 4

Mr. R. W. Alison and Messrs. Hocke and Co. secured a number of prizes at the Dungog show last week with Hereford cattle, of which a fine lot came…

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