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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1933

2,785 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 38 of 140

Wheat Bounty

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 4

The distribution of £442,421, made avallable by the Commonwealth as a bounty to the wheat growers, will acres, Approximately 20,000 clime…

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Butter Export "Limitation Inevitable" Saturation Point

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 9

The Downs Co-operative Dairy Association of Toowoomba has decided to pay suppliers 6½d per lb, for first-grade butter for March, which is the…

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Very Firm Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 9

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,133 bales, and the sales,…

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Mass Meeting Dairy Farmers Confer Selling Floor LISMORe

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 10

At the adjourned mass meeting of farmers, professional and business men, a resolution was passed stating that they considered the time was…

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Farm Home

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 3

Fruit when dry is a concentrated food, and a pound of dried fruit is the equivalent of several pounds of fresh fruft, as shown by the following…

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Killed on Farm Dragged by Cultivator FINLEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 April 1933 · page 9

Simon Fraser, 53, a farm labourer, was fatally injured at Finley when he was run down by a team of horses drawing a disc cultivator…

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Pastoral. She Sheep Blowfly Problem. a Comprehensive Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

It is estimated that in a year when sheep blowfly is bad, upwards of £4,000,000. is lost by Australia as a result of infestation, and it may safely…

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PASTORAL Blowfly Problem

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

It is estimated that In a year "whon sheep blowily is bud upwards of £1,000,000 is lost by Australia as a result of infestation, and It may…

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Butter Output

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 6
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

For the month of March the output from the Butter Factory was 79,154lb., for which suppliers received £2382/17/9. Supplies at present are at a low…

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Agricultural. the Wheat Crop an Important Point in Sowing

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

An important operation in connection with the sowing of wheat is the proper setting of the drill according to the variety and condition of the seed…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 6

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report 4th April: We offered a catalogue of 3169 bales to-day, which included many free clips from the later shearing…

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Good Tone Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge street when the quantity catlogued totalled 10,515 bales, and the tales…

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Butter Restriction (Australian Press Assn. Message.) London

Singleton Argus · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 6

The Australian and New Zealand butter importers have appointed a deputation to wait on the Minister for Agriculture and ask for a restriction of…

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Big Increase Butter,, Exports VIC. Leads MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 1

In a return Issued by the Minister for Commerce, it was disclosed that between January 1, 1932 and April 1, 1933, 89,433…

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Heavy Supplies Continental Butter London Market London. April 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 1

Australian and New Zealand butter, importers appointed a deputation to wait on the Minister for Agriculture to ask for the…

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The Man on the Land Pastoral and Agricultural Notes by Experts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 4

These notes arc issued by the Department of Agriculture, under direction of the Minister, and based on experiments of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work…

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Question of Wool Prices a Universal Problem

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 6

The stronger wool market latterly experienced has been confined by a slight upward movement in rates for merino tops in…

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Bowral Dairy Farmer Has Praise for Milk Board CONTENTED! Southern Men Load of Beer Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 1

When the Milk Royal Commission resumed this morning, the Commissioner (Mr. A. B. Shand, K.C.)…

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Rain is Followed by Activity on District Farms Preparing for Crops Sales of Hay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 April 1933 · page 7

Although the Hunter River district has just passed through one of the worst periods for many summers, again It has shown Its…

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