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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

2,557 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 37 of 128

Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 3

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd., reports 3rd inst.: No new market features are reported from Melbourne where sales…

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Market Notes Stud Cattle Sales

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 1

The sales of Shorthorns were marked by somewhat restricted bidding at the opening of the stud cattle sales field in connection with the Royal…

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West Australian Drought. 1,000,000 Sheep Lost

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 7

The Commonwealth Meteorologist (Mr. E. V. Curlewis) stated that the drought now prevailing throughout Western Australia was one of the…

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Butter Exports Cut Down. Due to Fall in Production

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 7

In view of the decrease in the production of butter in the Commonwealth, the Australian Dairy Board has decided that from 18th…

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Dairy Produce Awards at Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 6

The Bowtherne Co-operative Butter Factory Ltd., Morpeth, received first prize at Sydney Show for two large matured cheese, Pasteurlsed, second…

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Falsified Books of Dairy Company Man Sentenced at Grafton Sessions

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 April 1936 · page 3

John Hayes Campbell, aged 43, whose defalcations were said to have been in the vicinity of £3700, in Grafton Sessions, changed his plea of not guilty…

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Sickness Among Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 4

Many cases of a rather strange sickness among cattle are being reported to Mr. A. E. Moore, Stock Inspector of Gloucester P.P. Board, says…

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Rotation of Crops. Benefits the Farm and the Farmer

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 April 1936 · page 5

Plants are composed of a great many compounds or substances, but of the eighty or more elements known to the chemist, only fourteen are…

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Wheat Stocks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 3

Wheat stocks in New South Wales Government grain elevators on April 9 comprised 9,815,000 bushels in country silos and in transit and 905,000…

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High Average Victorian Wheat Crop MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 10

The Victorian wheat yield for the season 1935 - 36 was 37,552,062 bushels. according to figures issued by the Government Statistleian, This exceeds…

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Butter Factory Raymond Terrace

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 9

The Raymond Terrace Co - operative Dairy and produce company Ltd., has issued the following factory report for [?]…

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Filed Farm & Dairy Agricultural Restored by Lucerne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 8

An outstanding feature of the Royal Agricultural Society's wheat growing championship of the southern slopes area was the excellent results…

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DAIRYING High Production

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 8

The fame of the Hawkesbury Agriculture College Jersey herd is world-wide, due mainly to record producers like Wagga Gladys, Richmond Honour…

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Junior Farmers Annual Conference SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 April 1936 · page 10

The annual conference of Junior Farmers Club advisory committee delegates took place at the showground…

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Cattle on Line Struck by Train BRISBANE. Monday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 3

The Northern mail train crashed into a mob of cattle which had broken through the protecting fence on the railway line 30 miles north of…

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Mustered Sheep To Make Landing Pilot's Feat Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 3

Mr. B. Godsall, piloting a Puss Moth from Mascot, experienced much difficulty in effecting a safe landing at Bowral, owing to the presence of sheep…

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Farm Escapee From Train to Train Daring Leap Sydney, Monday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 6

When he Jumped from the root of a stationary train on to the root of the Brisbane mall train as it was drawing out of Hornsby station last,…

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Junior Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 April 1936 · page 8

The competitions amongst members of the Junior Farmers' Club from Queensland, Victoria, and New south Wales ended on Saturday night, with…

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Wheat Surplus Stocks in Canada

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 8

At the and of January tho total Canadian wheat supplies visible In nil positions was under 250,000,000 bushels, and stock are now below those of…

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Lost Cattle Found in Show MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 April 1936 · page 5

Isolated in deep snow for four days on the summit of the Alps between Mt. Hotham and Mt. Feathertop 300 head' of cattle were located by…

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