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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

2,711 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 136

Newcastle Wool Sales on the Air

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 1

The New England, North and North West Producers' Co. Ltd. (N.E.N.C.O.) announce that for the first time in the history of…

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Shearers to Replace Strikers Queensland Pastoral Workers Object. Police Draw Revolvers

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 3

Following a report that southern shearers to replace strikers were on the mail train for Crossmore station, in the Muttaburra district (Q.)"' 200 local…

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Wheat Silos Full Serious Position by Week-end

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 3

The wheat position in the country will be extremely serious at the end of the week, when all silos in the country, with the exception…

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Vicious Attack by Brown Snake Dairy Farmer Attacked

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 3

When William James Hyde, dairy farmer, aceidentally placed his hand on the tail of a brown snake, it sprang backward,just missing his face, and…

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Hawkesbury Dairy Course Scholarships for Factory Employees

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 January 1931 · page 1

The Department of Agriculture has, arranged that persons who have had at least three years' experience in dairy factory processing and manufacture…

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Homebush Sales Cattle Firm Sheep Easier Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, report. 2300 cattle yarded, the bulk medium to useful quality, Prime description were unchanged. Good to…

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Butter Report

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 4

Messrs. Prescott Ltd., report under date 3rd January, 1931:— Sydney:—On the far nothern and parts of the central rivers output has bee…

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Wheat Shippers Interview Minister MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 7

"Loading wheat shippers interviewed the Acting Minister for Markets (Mr. Forde) yesterday to discuss the wheat position consequent upon the…

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Abnormal Tides Land Flooded at Hexham Crops Affected Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 7

During this very tides "king tides," in the fishermen's phraseology have prevailed in the harbour and Upper Hunter River…

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Dairy Employees' Scholarship

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 8 January 1931 · page 4

The Department of Agriculture advises that persons who have had at least three years' experience in dairy factory processing and manufacture are eligible to…

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Wheat Crop Farmers' Plight No Wages Money

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

At a large and representative meeting of farmers and citizens at Wellington, the serious position of the farmers…

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Merriwa Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

On the hoof at Homebush last Monday good to prime beef sold from 30/to 34/- per 100lbs., good to prime yearling beef 32/- to 36/-. Mr. C. C. Bradly,…

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Pastoral Award Emphatic Protests

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

At a meeting of the committee of the pastoral section of the Australian Workers' Union yesterday, at Perth, a resolution, emphatically protesting…

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Cattle by Dutch Auction

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

Gloucester has been without any auctioneers since 1st January. All licenses terminate on the 31st December when applications must be…

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Dutch Auction of Cattle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 5

At Gloucester there were no auctioneers early in the present years because of the lack of facilities to be licensed. An attractive got over the…

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The Wheat Muddle

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 3

The last of the wheat trucks has for the time being been sent to the country. The manager of the Government Grain Elevators (Mr…

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PASTORAL (Supplied by the Department of Agriculture.) GRASS. The Most Important of all Crops

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 4

The economic significance of pasture becomes evident when the values of our agricultural and animal products are compared, hand-feeding being still…

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MUSWELLBROOK Butter in London MUSWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 6

The Muswellbrook Co-operative Dairy Co., manufacturers of "Tax" butter, have received a cablegram from London, stating that butter…

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Returns Needed. Reminder to Sheep Owners

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 2

Owners of 50 or more sheep who have not yet filled in and returned the special sheep and wool form posted to them in December last by the Government…

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Wool Market General Tone Better

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 January 1931 · page 1

The Secretary.Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy. writes:- At our sale on 7th January we offered 6416 bales comprising a good…

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