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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

2,557 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 128

Dartbrook Farmers. Pumps Idle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 1

In consequence of the drying-up of the Dartbrook Creek irrigation plants on farms adjacent to the stream are idle. Severe losses have…

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Farming Boom If Poor Had Full Diet Professor's View London, February 3

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 7

Addressing Farmers' Club members to-day, Sir John Orr, Research Lecturer on the Physiology of Nutrition at the Aberdeen University, elaborated…

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Lucerne Seed Northern Crops SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 4

In the Tamworth district a considerable quantity, of lucerne hay has been stored since the spring. For seed, a considerable area has been…

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Crops

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 3

With the exception of the early maize, crops of corn are a picture. The season has just suited the growth of maize and many fine crops can be…

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Share Farmer's Death Manilla

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 February 1936 · page 1

The District Coroner (Mr. J. D. Kennedy) will hold an inquiry on Tuesday into the circumstances of the death of Aubrey Percival Cummins,…

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Brands on Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1936 · page 4

The directors of the Maitland Pastures Protection Board, at their meeting on Monday, carried a motion recommending to the Minister that the…

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Wool Sales

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 5 February 1936 · page 4

New Zealand Loan &nd Morcantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:— The sixth series of sales commenced in the Sydney market on Monday,…

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Wool Review 800,000 Bales Left

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1936 · page 8

In their weekly wool review Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., point out that at the end of the week, Australia will only have about…

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Wool Sales Values Maintained Sydney Market Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 February 1936 · page 6

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,369 bales, and the…

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Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 1

Sydney:—Hot weather has in some districts counteracted the benefit of the earlier rains, but reports from other centres indicate that production is being fairly…

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CONDEMNATIONS Report to Council Cattle Killings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 4

The annual, report by the meat inspector (Mr. T. C. Atkinson) which was submitted to Tarro Shire Council, showed that within the shire in…

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Wheat Quiet The Sydney Market SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 10

The city wheat market opened quiet and easier yesterday. A limited quantity of bulk wheat offering at 3/8 for prompt delivery, with an odd…

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Wool Sales The Sydney Market Unchanged Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 10

Wool sales were hold yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridgestreet, when the quantity catalogued totalled 12,348 bales, and the…

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JUSTIFIED Wool Sales Confidence Council's Review Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 4

In a review of the July-December period, issued to-day, the Australian Woolgrowers' Council states that the result of the first half of the 1935-36…

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Dairy Industry Farm Competitions Aiming Higher

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 February 1936 · page 8

During the past four years the coastal dairy farm competitions, conducted by the "Farmer and Settler," in conjunction with dairy…

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Wool, Wheat, Cars. Increased Figures Interesting

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 10

How deadly accurate arc figures! How often is a heated and lengthy argument cut off by the year book, just like the swish of a knife…

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The Week in Wool and Wheat. Proposed Wool Levy. MB. J. P. Abbott Interviewed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 7

The proposed wool levy to conduct advertising and publicity campaigns abroad has now taken definite form following the Melbourne conference…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 1

N.Z.L. and M.A. Co., Ltd., report 3rd February: The sixth series of sales commenced in the local market to-day, when this company brought…

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Butter for Britain Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 2

The steamer Largs Bay, which sailed at midnight, loaded 6258 boxes of butter from Lower North Coast and Hunter River districts for the United…

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Drover Dies Sheep Dogs Carry On WAGGA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 February 1936 · page 3

Unaware that their master had collapsed and died behind them, a team of sheep dogs continued to conduct a flock of sheep along a road near…

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