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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

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Upward Trend Sydney Wool Values

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 6

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,773 bales, and the…

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A Denman Farm

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 4 January 1934 · page 1

Ample evidence of the improved methods of farming in this district and the wonderful productive powers of the Hunter Valley Hats may be seen on many of the farms…

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Never Better Pastoral Conditions in Queensland. Excited Sheep Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 2

Pastoral conditions right throughout Queensland have possibly never been better. A well-known pastoralist, who has just returned from a tour…

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Butter Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 3

During the week ended December 30 the Commonwealth graders examined for export at Sydney 27,452 boxes of butter of which 22,825 were…

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Record Butter Shipments

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 6

The Port Hobart, new motorship of the Commonwealth and Dominion Line sailed from Newcastle shortly after midnight on Tuesday, carrying one of…

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Armidale Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 7

At H. M. Artur & Co. announce that owing to late bookings, including 100 cows and calves and 120 bullocks the yarding at their…

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Nowendoc Cattle Sale

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 2

Messrs. Nash and McKensey, (Walcha, agents, announce their first cattle sale at Nowendoc Station on 19th January when 800 head will…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercanthe Agency Co., Ltd., reports that during the interval which has taken place since the last series of sales were held…

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Big Transaction Cattle from Wingham WINGHAM, Friday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 4

One of the largest stock consignments over sent from Wingham was entrained on a special stock train on Wednesday last for Curban in the…

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Another Rise Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 6

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,048 bales, and the…

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Artesian Water in North Australia Importance to Pastoral Industry

Singleton Argus · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 6

The of large supplies of artesian water being discovered in Northern Australia should result in the country being opened up rapidly,…

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Prospects of Trade in East Butter Supplies Wanted

Singleton Argus · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 1

The opinion that Australia. could greatly increase her trading in the East if she appointed trade representatives, was expressed by Mr A. Wilde, on his…

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The Buoyancy in Wool. Outlook Generally Favorable

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The wool outlook for the year is brighter than at any time since the early part of 1928. In the 1927/'28…

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Season's Wool Figures Amount to Nearly £60,000,000. Road to Prosperity

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 6

It is generally anticipated that the wool cheque for Australia this season will be in the vicinity of £60,000,000. and if this figure is realised it will be…

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Dairy Production. Previous Records Exceeded

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 6

Last year closed with dairy products exceeding all previous records, and factory outputs probably will not reach the peak before another month…

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Fierce Storm at Inverell Property, Live Stock, and Crops Suffer

Singleton Argus · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 2

It Property, livestock, and unliarvcsted wheat crops suffered at Invorell, when a devastating storm swept the district. Two inches of rain were recorded in…

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The Farm Home How to Make Sour Milk Cheese

Singleton Argus · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 3

The housewife often finds that milk goes sourf but it need not be wasted, for it can be utilised in the making of sour-milk cheese. If it is not thick,…

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The Autumn Bean Crop The Importance of Good Seed

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 8

Growers who intend making autumn sowings of beans (in areas other than the Gosford and Wyong districts where sowings are to be…

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DAIRYING Scours in Calves Sometimes Caused by Eating an Irritant Material

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 5 January 1934 · page 3

Any irritant material eaten by calves is likely to set up inflammatory changes, in the stomach and bowels, and thus, where the animals…

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Wool Averages

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 January 1934 · page 12

The average price obtained for wool sold at auction in Sydney during the current week was [?]24/9/1 a bale, equal to 1/9.3 per lb., the highest…

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