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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1934

2,897 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 56 of 145

Dairy Expert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 May 1934 · page 2

It is announced that applications will be called in all States for the position of Superintendent of Dairying in the new dairy branch of the…

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Dairy Industry Marketing Butter Produced Director's Address

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 May 1934 · page 5

"Unless manufacturers standardise their outputs at the highest grade quality, marketing overseas and locally will become increasingly difficult," said Mr. L. T. MacInnes, Director of Dairying, in addressing a Bureaux Conference at Bega…

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Commercial Singleton Markets. Special Dairy Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 May 1934 · page 4

Grainger, and Falkiner Ltd. report having conducted their usual monthly special dairy cattle sale on Friday last. The attendance of buyers was hardly…

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Butter Exports Higher Figures SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 May 1934 · page 7

With the total at 91,176 tons, the shipments of butter to the United Kingdom are now more than 900 tons in excess of the quantity for the…

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Butter Supplies a Further Shrinkage Demand Quiet

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 May 1934 · page 4

In their weekly circular, Prescott, Ltd, report that shipments delayed the previous week have helped to swell this week's arrivals. Most…

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Maitland Markets. General Rise of 10/ in Cattle. Maitland, Monday. Mr J. Enright reports:-

Singleton Argus · Monday 21 May 1934 · page 2

Fat Cattle.—850 head yarded, comprising medium to good trade quality in both cows and steers. Heavy bullocks and cows in small supply, also…

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Dairying. Future of the Industry Price Stabilisation Scheme

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 May 1934 · page 6

It was the unanimons opinion of a conference of northern dairy representatives held at the New England Experimental Farm on Thursday that the…

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Dairy Produce Act. Poll of Faemers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 May 1934 · page 3

Arrangements by the Department of Commerce to hold a poll of dairy farmers in Australia are nearly complete. The poll will determine whether the…

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Dairy Show London Schedule

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 May 1934 · page 5

The Minister for Commerce (Mr. F. H. Stewart) announces that copies of the prize schedule and entry form for the colonial section of the annual dairy…

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Mice Plague in Queensland Crops Ravaged

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 May 1934 · page 1

Reports are to hand from districts in the Darling Downs of a mice plague which is causing considerable damage to standing grain…

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Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1934 · page 3

Prescott Ltd. report under date 19th May:— Sydney:—Shipments decayed the previous, week have helped to swell this…

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Effects of Butter Speculation

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 24 May 1934 · page 4

The first mouth's equalisation figures will be seriously lessened by the speculative element. It got busy at the earliest opportunity with the result that there are…

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No More Delay Wheat Bounty Payments SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 May 1934 · page 1

In the Legislative Assembly to-day, Mr. Kilpatrick (U.C.P., Wagga), asked the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. H. Main, why there has been…

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Wool Reports

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 May 1934 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report 24th inst.: Following last week's Sydney auctions a moderate amount of private treaty for passed in wools has…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 May 1934 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., report: The sales in this centre during the past week have been most disappointing. Certainly this catalogues have…

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Pastoral. Where Merino Breeders Differ. the Question of Development

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 May 1934 · page 8

The question of development is rather a contentious matter with breeders of merino sheep. How much development can be used? Some…

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The Wool Outlook. Smaller American Clip

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 May 1934 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— Announcement by the German authorities regarding a decision on the question of imports of wool, tops and…

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Wild Dog Caught at Last Killed Over 900 SHEEP

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 May 1934 · page 4

A wild dog which experienced dingo trappers have been trying to capture for seven years, and which has been responsible for directly or indirectly…

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Wool Outlook Good Increasing Use of Staple

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 May 1934 · page 4

Mr. H. Dawson, principal of the wool firm of H. Dawson and Sons, of Bradford, in an article in the special Empire section of the "Times Trade…

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