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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

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Keen Demand London Wool Sales LONDON, May 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 8

To-day's wool sales were the concluding sales of the first series for 1936. The catalogue totalled 6900 bales of…

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Field Farm&dairy Agricultural Disease in Maize

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 8

The root and basal stalk rot disease of maize is very prevalent in New South Wales, and each season is responsible for serious loss. Field…

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DAIRYING Scours in Calves

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 8

Any irritant material eaten by calves is likely to set up inflammation changes in the stomach and bowels, and thus, where the animals…

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My Dairy of the Week

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1936 · page 8

I read in the cable news today that golfer Jim Ferrier had been fined for careless motor driving in England. Jim must have thought he was on the…

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Stock Sales Fat Cattle Rise Sheep Cheaper

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 5

Fat cattle, the quality of which improved, rose 10/ a head at the Maitland saleyards to-day. Pigs were unchanged, but sheep were…

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Sheep Mauled Raiding Alsatians BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 2

Alsatians which entered a butcher's stockyard on the property of Pobar and Sons, of Toowoomba at the week…

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Falling Off. Supplies of Butter Weekly Review

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 6

Prescott, Ltd., In their weekly review of the butter industry, state that production continues of fall off in all districts; in some areas the decline…

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Danish Butter Reason for Higher Price on English Market

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 1

Tho Consul-General for Denmark (Mr G. L. Host), in an illustrated address on Denmark at the Y.W.C.A. Hall, to the A.G.L. Company's Popular Science…

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Merino Not Understood in England Wool Publicity Favoured

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 4

Woolgrowers regard an Australian's experience of an English shopman's ignorance of Australian wool as an argument in favour of a wool publicity…

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The Milk Inquiry Dairy Farmer Favours Raw Milk

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 2

Giving evidence before the Milk Inquiry to-day, Alexander Burnett, a dairy farmer, said it was in the best interests of the farmer to put best,…

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Milk Inquiry Testing for T.B. Dairyman's View Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 1

Alexander Burnett, dairy farmer, of Penrith, said to-day at the Milk Inquire that a motion, which has been carried at a meeting of the Nepean…

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Dissatisfaction with Milk Industry Nepean Farmers' Evidence

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 May 1936 · page 4

Dairy farmers in the Nepean district are dissatisfied with everything associated with the milk industry, according to Mr Russell Walters, of Badgery…

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Cattle Stealing Case Adjourned

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 3

On the Cessnock Court list this morning was a case in which Thomas Lewis and Dick Lewis, both of Qorrobolong, were charged with cattle…

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Minerals for Dairy Cattle. Bone—chewing a Sign of Deficiency

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 5

An adequate supply of minerals is essential for the health of cattle. Practically the whole of the soil of this State suffers to a greater or…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 2

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., report: Sales terminated in this centre on Tuesday last, the offerings for the last ten days comprising…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 7

At the Cessnock Court to-day, Thomas Lewis and Richard Lewis, both of Querrobolong, were charged with cattle stealing. An application…

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Dogs Shot Destroyed Sheep TOOWOOMBA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 4

Two of the dogs which have been maiming and destroying sheep in the stockyards of Messrs. Pobar and Son and V, Vonag[?]ia, butchers, were shot by two boys returning from a…

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Wool Report Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. Ltd., report 13th inst

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 3

We submitted at our sale on 12th inst., a catalogue of 2243 bales, comprising a number of autumnshorn wools from the Western areas of the…

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Wool's Improved Position Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report 19th inst

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 4

The wool position certainly shows strength. Time after time during the past year political and threatened European international disturbances…

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Visit to Russia Australian Animals in the Gardens Bigger Sheep Being Bred

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 May 1936 · page 1

Mr. E. J. Bryce, a retired Sydney merchant, and former President of the Royal Zoological Society, Sydney, who returned by the Niagara on…

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