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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

2,557 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 128

The Junior Farmers

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 23 April 1936 · page 1

A statement made by Sir Henry Galway, a former Governor of South Australia that Australian boys are reluctant to go on the land, has according to the 'P. P. U…

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Scone Dairy Cattle Sale

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 1

Stan. G. Keene and Co. report yarding and selling 230 head of dairy cattle at their special dairy sale on Wednesday last. Buyers were in…

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The Markets in Queensland Stock and Property Sheep and Cattle

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 5

The intervention of the holidays has had the customary quietening effect upon the market for sheep and cattle in most country centres, and…

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Good Prospects Wool and Wheat Best for Years

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 6

It is likely that only market prices will concern wool, and wheat-growers in the season ahead, and they have held so well that the pastoral and…

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Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 7

At Muswellbrook on Tuesday, April 28, at 1.30 p.m. Edward Higgins, Parkinson had Co., and Dalgety and CO., will offer 1200 quality cattle…

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Dalkeith Sheep

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 3

A lorry-load of magnificent stud ewes and ranis from Sir-Frederick McMaster's "Dalkeith," were at the weekend, sent to the Bathurst Show, which…

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Wool and Top Markets Question of Wool Growing Wethers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 7

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report. 21st April: Though owing to the holiday period demand for wool privately has…

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Wool Sales Opening May 4 SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 1

The seventh series of wool sales will be held in Sydney next month. The first day's will commence on May a and the sales will continue for…

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Wool and Top Markets. the Question of Woolgrowing Wethers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— Though owing to the holiday period demand for wool privately has not recently been brisk, in Sydney, the…

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Wool in East Note of Warning. Japanese Substitutes. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 7

Dr. Clunies Ross., director of the McMaster animal health laboratory at the University of Sydney, who recently returned to Sydney from a…

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Rayon Duty as Loaded Weapon Our Wool Trade with East

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 3

Any tariff that will interrupt Australia's expanding Eastern wool trade will be disastrous, the President of the N.S. Wales Graziers' Association…

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High Standard of Horsemanship Cattle— Drafting and Bull— Dogging. Australians Excel— and Learn

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 6

It was not till the final night lot the Royal Show, that the cattle draft teams from N. S. Wales and Queensland, and the bull-doggers, American,…

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Dairy Report Manning River Co-op. TAREE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 4

The Manning River Co-operative Dairy Society Ltd. paid 705 suppliers 91d a lb for choicest and 89d a lb for second-class butter March, the…

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Dairy Inspection Policemen Object SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 April 1936 · page 3

The conference of the police Association of New South Wales carried a motion that a fee be charged for the registration of dairies, the amount…

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Field Farm & Dairy Pastoral Subterranean Clover

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 9

Conditions this season are ideal for sowing Subterranean clover, as most districts have received good raina and the subsoils, contain ample moisture…

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DAIRYING. Cysts in the Udder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 9

A type of cyst, known as a galacfocele, is not inrequently met with in the udder of the dairy cow. There may be only one or there may be several,…

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The Children's Corner A Section of Interest and Entertainment for Young Folk. (All Right's Reserved) Farm Waggon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 April 1936 · page 3

A model waggon, like the one, sketched may be made from planed wood three-eighths of an inch thick, spme half-inch dowel rods, one or two…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 April 1936 · page 4

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. reports on the 23rd instant:— There have been no recent developments calculated to diminish…

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Caught in Abnormal Tide 400 Sheep Drowned

Singleton Argus · Monday 27 April 1936 · page 2

A message from Wellington (N.Z.) states that 400 sheep were drowned when a mob of 1000 was caught in an abnormal spring tide in a gully on the…

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High Tide 400 Sheep Perish Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 27 April 1936 · page 3

When caught by an abnormal spring tide in a gully at White Cliffs, on the North Taranaki coast, 400 sheep were drowned or killed, and many others…

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