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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1931

2,711 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 76 of 136

Butter Export Increased Shipments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 July 1931 · page 2

Shipments of butter from Australia much in excess of last season still continue to go forward. The figures for the first fortnight…

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New Lismore Butter Factory

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 23 July 1931 · page 4

The new butter factory at South Lis more, creeled by Norco Cooperative Ltd., has commenced operations. It is a notable contribution to Australian dairying science…

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Wider Demand London Wool Sales Values Improve London, July 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 July 1931 · page 1

At the London wool sales, 9688 bales were offered, of which approximately 5270 were sold. It was a Satisfactory closing to…

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Pastoral. a Maintenance Ration for Sheep. Departmental Trials at Trangie

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

No problem is of more vital interest to pastoralists than that of how to maintain their flocks most economically during the periodically recurring dry…

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Store Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 5

J. Enright reports selling 564 store and dairy cattle on Tuesday last. The whole of the consignments comprised was not as large as…

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Dehorning of Dairy Cattle. Treatment of the Calf

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 6

Horns of dairy cattle serve no useful purpose and are a source of much danger and annoyance. Only in the case of high-class animals that are…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 6

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:— It is a remarkable feature that in spite of the unsatisfactory Continental…

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Dairying. Dehorning of Dairy Cattle. Treatment of the Calf

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 4

Horns of dairy cattle serve no useful purpose and are a source of muc danger and annoyance. Only in the case of high-class animals that are…

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Russian Butter LONDON, July 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 1

Mr. Greenwood, Minister for Health, in the House of Commons, said the Ministry had recently examined…

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Final Figures Wheat Pool Ballot

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 2

Minor adjustments in the voting in connection with the compulsory wheat pool ballot have brought the total to 17,146 out of a not enrolment of 19,772…

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The Markets. Newcastle Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 10

The New England, North and North West Producers' Co. Ltd. (Nenco) report that the new wool store which is being provided close to Lee Wharf,…

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Wider Demand London Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 2

At the London wool sales 9688 bales were offered, of which approximately 5270 were sold. It was a satisfactory closing to the sale…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 4

These notes are issued every week, by direction of the Hon. the Mi[?]of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the land…

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The Wool Outlook. THe German Situation

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— Difficult though, the Continental situation appears at the present time, reports of London wool sales indicate a…

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Lucky Escape Crashed into Cattle Slight Injuries Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 1

Charles Kinsella (46), a funeral director, had a fortunate escape from death early this morning, when a car which he was driving, crashed…

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Wool Growing Hope for Future. World's Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 2

In an address to the annual conference of the Agricultural Bureau, DR. I. Clunion Ross, or Sydney University, spoke encouragingly of the…

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Growers' Fears. "More Lang Legislation' Wheat Ballot Issue

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 8

Mr. A. K. Trethowan, M.L.C.., commenting on the result of the wheat pool ballot, said that farmers were afraid "of more Lang legislation…

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Farmers' Sons. Small Percentage SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 5

When the Hakesbury Agricultural Conference resumed to-day at the Hawkesbury College, Mr. E. A. Southee, Principal of the College…

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Dairy Cows. Points that Buyers Should Look For

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 July 1931 · page 2

"Supplier" asks Uncle Wiseman (Farmer and Settler Newspaper), for his advice on the buying of dairy cows, and as to whether it is…

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