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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

2,557 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 128

Wool Sales Strong Competition SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 4

Wool sales were held, yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, "when (he quantity catalogued totalled 10,862 bales, and the clearance,,…

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Wheat Firm The Sydney Market SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 4

The local wheat market opened firm yesterday with sellers of prompt bulk parcels asking 9/9 and, sales were made at that figure during the day,…

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Sale of Dairy Farm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 2

Readers are reminded of the sale of the dairy farm of 215 acres known as "Moorool" (the homestead of the late Mr. S. T. Smith) situated at Glen…

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Pit Silage Value to the Dairy Farmer

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 3

Whilst dairy farmers on the coast rarely have to contend with long droughty periods such as are experienced inland, seldom does a winter…

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Still Negotiating Government and Wool Freights Relief to Graziers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 1

The Acting Minister for Commerce (Mr. H. V. C. Thorby) said to-day he was continuing negotations with interests to secure freight reductions…

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Beef Cattle from U.S.A. £10,000 Purchase. Pedigreed Shorthorns Tor Gundibri

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 8

Mr. Douglas Munro, of Gundibri station, has imported a number of stud beef cattle from the United States. The importations are of Shorthorns and…

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A Wool Marketing Problem. Does It Pay To Carry Over Stocks?

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— This selling year has undoubtedly been a Merino wool season. For months authorities in all parts of the…

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Petrol Explodes Clothes on Fire Farmer's Loss Lismore

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 3

Despite the fact that his clothes wore on fire, T. Cronin, a tenant farmer at Pinchin's Lane, about 20 miles from Lismore, tried to save his…

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Less Production Grafton Dairy Company GRAFTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 5

The report submitted to the annual meeting of the Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., showed a total turnover of £211,334,…

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Poison Grass Farmers Warned SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 8

Roots and seed of a piant called winter growing Rhodes grass, a potential poison plant, have been purchased and planted by a few farmers in costal…

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Petrol Vapour Explodes Lismore Farmer's Loss

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 February 1936 · page 6

Although his clothes were on fire T. Cronin, a tenant farmer, at Pinchin's Lane, about 20 miles from Lismore, tried to save his property after two…

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PASTORAL Grassland Improvement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 9

Having selected the species and strains, and the quantities of each to be included in a pasture mixture, it does not necessarily follow that each…

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Motions Rejected Bowthorne Butter Factory Shareholders Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 4

Efforts to reduce the number of directors of, the Bow-thorne Co-operntive Butter Factory from nine to six and to give Stroud Road branch the right to always have a representative on the board of directors were defeated at the half-yearly…

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Wool Publicity Proposed Campaign SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 1

The President of the Graziers' Association, Mr. J. P. Abbott, stated to-day that the next step in the proposed, wool publicity and research…

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Wheat Market Quieter in Sydney SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 9

Quieter conditions ruled in the city, wheat market yesterday on the tone of overnight cables. Buyers were more inclined to look on. For prompt bulk…

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North Coast Haulage of Butter Rates, Protest Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 4

The Minister for Transport has advised the Council of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce that the chamber's protest against the inequitable…

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Field Farm & Dairy Agricultural Smut in Oats

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 9

If oats are grown merely for feeding oft there is no necessity to treat the grain, since grain is not allowed to be produced; neither is treatment…

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DAIRYING Value of Pig Silage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 February 1936 · page 9

Whilst dairy fanners on the coast rarely have to contend with long droughty periods such na arc experienced inland, seldom does a winter…

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Armidale Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 March 1936 · page 3

As announced in our advertising columns, Messrs Walter J. Hawke and Co. will hold a sale of good quality New England bred cattle at Armidale…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 2 March 1936 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:— The closing sales of the week were held on Thursday, when we brought…

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