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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

2,557 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 49 of 128

Dog Killed Sheep Damages Awarded LITHGOW

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 9

At the local police court James Albert Ryan, of Lowther, was awarded £6/15/ damages against Vivian Tay-lor,…

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QUIET-EASIER Wheat Market Pollard Dearer Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 4

city wheat market was very q[?]et and easier yesterday on the weaker, tone of overseas cable reports. Prompt bulk wheat was offering at…

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Keen Demand London Wool Sales LONDON, May 13

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 1

Only four bales of New South Wales wool were submitted for auction when the wool sales were resumed to-day, A total of 8805 tales was…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Co. Factory Report for APRIL

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 1

Markets: Australia, butter 1/3 per lb; cheese 9½d per lb; London, butter 9d per lb; cheese 5d. Equalisation quota:—Butter 49 per…

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Junior Farmers' Club

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 14 May 1936 · page 2

In the maize competition carried out by the Club recently there were five competitors, the 1st prize being won by Trevor Hindmarsh, of Millers Forest, with 114…

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Pastoral Sheep Classing. As a Means of Increasing Profits

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 1

"However small your flock, class it periodically," advise officers of the Sheep and Wool Branch of the Department of Agriculture, in whose…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 12

The Farmers and Graziers Co-op. Jo. Ltd. reports on the 13th. instant. We submitted at our sale on Tuesday 12th. instant, a catalogue of 2,243 bales…

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Infant Bitten by Sheep Dog

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 5

Ronald May, 14-months-old son of Mr and Mrs Les. May, of Chisholm-street, inverell, was savagely bitten by a sheep dog while playing in the yard at…

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Wool Sales. London

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 2

At the wool sales to-day 9957 hales were offered, of which 7717 bales were sold. New South Wales submitted 1484 bales. The offerings were a rather good…

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The Wool Situation Japan's Increased Demand

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report 12th inst.: Due to lack of an adequate Continental demand, competition for…

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Wool Sales a Keen Demand LONDON, May 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 1

At the wool sales to-day 9957 bales were offered, of which 7717 were sold New South Wales contributed 1484 bales. The offering were of a…

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London Wool Sales Keen Competition. (Australian Press Assn. Message. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 1

At the wool sales to-day 9957 bales were offered, of which 7717 were sold, Now South Wales submitted 1484. The offering was rather good and there was…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Co

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 8

Factory report for April:— Markets.—Butter: Australia, 1/3 per lb., London, 9d per lb. Cheese: London 9½d per lb., Australia 5d per lb…

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Denman News Monoxide Gas. Farmer's Lucky Escape

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 9

Overcome by fumes from a suction gas engine, Mr. Fair hall, of Mangoola, may consider himself fortunate that the mishap did not…

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District Farms Fodder Conservation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 7

The secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society has written to the secretary of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Society,…

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Milk Inquiry Nepean Farmers All Dissatisfied Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 7

Giving evidence before the Milk inquiry to-day, Russell Walker, a dairy farmer, of Badgery Creek, said that milk producers in the…

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Gloucester Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 2

Gloucester Co-Operative Dairy Company Limited, for April paid suppliers £9395/19/3 at the rate of 10¾d. for choicest and 9¾d. for second class…

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Stock and Crop Returns

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 2

Landowners who have not completed their stock and crop statistics are advised to call at the local police station and have the matter attended…

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Primary Producers' Union Weekly Notes Sydney, 11th May Dairy Board Elections

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 May 1936 · page 5

In all the States entitled to elect producer representatives to the new Australian Dairy Produce Board with the exception of N.S. Wales, there…

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Wool Purchases Mexico's Ambition SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 1

Mr. E. J. Bryee, a retired Sydney merchant, has discovered that Mexicans are anxious to buy Australian wool direct, instead of through…

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