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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

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Wool and Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

Elsewhere on this page appears an article elaborating the views of Mr. Dawson, a well-known Sydney wool broker, a brief reference…

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HOMEBUSH Values Unaltered Cattle-sheep Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 7

Winchcombe Carson Ltd., report that 2800 cattle were yarded, The market opened cheaper. Good to prime beef made 24/ to 27/ hundred…

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Low Price for Butter

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 3

Butter prices are very weak in London at present. The best Empire butter, including Australian, can now be obtained for 8d per lb., and in some cases 7 1/2d per lb…

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Strong Market Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 8

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridgestreet, whon the quantity catalogued totalled 10,803 bales, and the…

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Butter Sales Overseas Slump Position Grave Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

The President of the Primary Producers' Union, Mr. M. P. Dunlop, M.L.C., referring to cable messages that Australian butter…

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Bright Future Wool Industry Demand Grows Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 6

A few months ago the woolgrowers of Australia faced a gloomy future but to-day they appear to be on the path to…

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Build Own Sheds Advice to Wheat Men SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 1

Referring to the decision of the Government to close down all silos from saturday, the managing director of the Farmers and Grazlors'…

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Wheat Inquiry Terms of Reference Wide Powers Canberra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

All aspects, of wheatgrowing, including the flourmilling and bread manufacturing industries, covered by the terms of reference…

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Silos Closing Wet Wheat Feared Spoil Stocks Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 4

It is announced that from Saturday next, the whole of the country grain elevators and the terminal silos at White Bay will be closed…

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South Coast Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 8

The flood rains on the south Coast have a serious effect upon pastures, and agents are fearing that a decided decline in milk supplies will…

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Cheeper Breeding Poultry Farmers Benefit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

Professor R.C. Punnett, of the cambridge School of Genetics, has guided the evolution of a new breed of poultry, the sex of whose chickens…

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North Coast Dairying

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1934 · page 2

The first co-operative butter factory on the Richmond River was established at Spring Hill, near Wollongbar, in 1888, and the value of its first month's output was…

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A Fair Price for Butter Case for the Dairy Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 4

That dairy farmers to-day are in a serious plight is demonstrated by the fact that payment is being made at the rate of 7 1/2 d. lb. in the…

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Butter Output

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 5
Also in The Scone Advocate

For the month of December the out-put from the Aberdeen factory was 157,6191bs., for which suppliers received a total payment of £4914/2/-…

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Armidale Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 9

In announcing in this issue a monster yarding of 2800 store cattle, mostly New England bred, at Armidale on Wednesday, 17th inst., the seiling…

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Wool Sales

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 2
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle, The Scone Advocate

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Coy. reports on the 9th instant: At our opening sale of the New Year on the 8th instant we submitted a…

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Wool Sale

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 January 1934 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:— We submitted our first catalogue of the second half of the season on…

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