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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1935

2,769 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 79 of 139

Bounty on Butter

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 18 July 1935 · page 2

Central Executive of the P. P. U. has before it recommendations from the Dr. Hunter and Gloucester, Tweed, Central Rivers, Raleight, Raleigh, Southern and Richmond…

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Jersey Record Butter Fat Production Hawkesbury Cow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 July 1935 · page 2

A record for Australian Jerseys of all ages has just been established by Richmond Posy Vth in yielding 15,097[?]1b milk, averaging 6.5 per cent…

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Rural Products Bureau Conference Butter Substitutes Richmond

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 July 1935 · page 4

Problems affecting primary in dustries were discussed by speakers at the Agricultural Bureau , conference at Hawkesbury…

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Wheat Quieter Bran and Pollard SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 July 1935 · page 10

The tone of tile city wheat market was quieter yesterday. For prompt bulk wheat buyers' indications were nominally 2/101, and sellers'…

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Wool Sales Strong Competition LONDON, July 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 July 1935 · page 1

At the wool salon to-day 9771 bales wore offered, Including 1733 from Now South Wales. Approximate sales of Australasian wools amounted to 5889…

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Grow Less! Hope for Wheat Big Surplus Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 July 1935 · page 1

The statement that he could see little hope for the wheat industry without a reduction in world acreage, of…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 6

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., tLd., report: The centre of interest in wool circles has been focussed on London during the week, where sales opened…

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A Warning Deadly to Cattle Poison Plant

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 3

Timely warning is given to stock-owners by Mr. N. H. Litchfield, Stock Inspector for the Singleton district, to be on their guard against a certain…

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Wheat and Eastern Market. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 2

Giving evidence before the Wheat Commission to-day, Rupert James Hemphill, of J. A. Hemphill & Sons, expressed doubt that the Machukuo…

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Skeleton Weed Large Wheat Areas Ruined

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 8

Mr K. K. Carr, agricultural instructor, in addressing the Agricultural Bureaux Conference at Richmond on Wednesday, dealt with the ruin being…

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Sheep Die Queensland Gold Heavy Losses Brisbane

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 3

Referring to stock losses caused in Western Queensland by a cold snap following rain, the president of the United Graziers' Association…

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RAIDERS Italians Attacked Cattle Seized London, July 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 1

An official communique issued in Roma, states that parties of Abyssinians crossed the Abysinlan and Eritrean frontier, and…

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Immunisation of Sheep From Blowfly Pest Successful Experiments

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 3

Extraordinary results in the immunisation of sheep from the blowfly pest have attended the efforts of prominent scientists of the…

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Risked Lives To Save Seven Sheep MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 3

Two quarry workers risked their lives to rescue seven sheep which were stranded for two days on a narrow ledge half-way down the 150ft…

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Wheat Market Steadier in Sydney SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 4

The local wheat market opened steadier yesterday on the advance in Oversea options. There were buyers for prompt bulk wheat at 2/11, but none…

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Record by Jersey Cow 983.291b Butter in 273 DAYS

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 7

A record for Australian Jerseys of all ages has just been established by Richmond Posy 5th in yielding 15,097½1b. milk, averaging 6.5 per cent, test, and…

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Sheep Prices Soaring Effort to Restock Hampered Ewes Quoted at 20/-

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 1

Now that further good rain has fallen which, in most cases, has consolidated the position created by the earlier rains, owners will at last be…

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Colossal Sheep Losses Thousands Die From Cold in Queensland Brisbane

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 6

The far western districts report heavy losses of sheep after the second rains of a week ago. In the Winton district some of the coldest…

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New Wool Fabric Produced Secrets of Process Closely Guarded

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 3

Secret experiments over a period of more than two years into a process for manufacturing a 100 per cent, unshrinkable wool fabric,…

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Wheat Royal Commission Unwrapped Bread a Menace to Public Health

Singleton Argus · Friday 19 July 1935 · page 7

That the supply of unwrapped bread was more detrimental to the public health than the manufacture of the article by a person in the first stages…

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