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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1936

2,557 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 68 of 128

Stock Sales Good Cattle Rise Sheep Dearer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 7

Prime quality fat cattle showed a rise of from 5/ to 10/ a head at the Maitland saleyards to-day. The sheep market was brisk and…

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Sheep Dearer Best Cattle Unaltered Sales at Homebush Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carbon, Ltd., reports: 2826 cattle yarded. Prime were unaltered, others easier. Good to prime beef 22/ to 30/100 lbs, yearlings 25/…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 2nd inst.: A pleasing feature reported from Brisbane this week is a wider…

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Record Likely Wheat Crops Benefit BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 3

Much benefit will result from the splendid soaking rains, which occurred during the week-end over a wide area, extending from the central west to…

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Cattle Fees Travelling by Lorry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 7

At its meeting to-day the Maitland Pastures Protection Board decided to write to the Advisory Council to find what was the correct charge for cattle…

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High Prices Butter Payments LISMORE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 3

The North Coast Butter Factories' Association, which met at Lismore, fixed the pay for supplies received during June at 1/09 a lb. This is the…

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Stock Sales Cattle Unchanged at Homebush. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 2

Cattle.—3100 yarded, and the market was unchanged. Bullocks realised from £5 to £11/10/ and cows from £3 to £9. Best beef worth 36/ per 100 lbs, good…

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Butter Trade Dutch East Indies Alarm Felt Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 1

Alarm at the increasing hold which Dutch butter was gaining in the Dutch East Indies at the expense of Australia was voiced to-day by Mr. H. C. Soden,…

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Cattle Brands Objection to Proposal MAITLAND P.P. BOARD

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 7

At the meeting of the Maitland Pastures Protection Board to-day, Mr. G. B. Waller mentioned that to-morrow morning the Pastures Protection…

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Nursery Tales Farmer Protests

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 10

President of the National Farmers' Union, Mr. J. H. Wain blames nursery rhymes for holding farmers and other rural workers up to rid[?]…

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Useful Rains Dairy Centres Benefit Production Shrinkage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1936 · page 4

In their weekly review, Prescott, Ltd., report that useful rains have fallen in most dairying centres. In the aggregate production is still…

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Butter Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 4

During the week ended July 4 the Commonwealth grades examined for export at Sydney 388 boxes of butter, all but one being salted. They also…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 1
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The Farmers and G[?]s' Co-op. Co., Ltd., reports 2nd inst.: A pleasing feature reported from Brisbane this week is a wider…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Returns Notice to Landholders

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 2

The local police have asked us to advise all landowners concerned that forms detailing agricultural and pastoral statistics for the past year…

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Wool Sales. Adelaide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 4

During the 1935-36 Adelaide woolselling season, which ended on June 11, 263,380 bales of greasy and scoured wool were sold by auction. They…

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Big Increase Butter Export Rural Wealth Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 1

Instancing the Wonderful growth of Australian dairying, the Commonwealth supervisor of dairy export, Mr. F. Wigan, at…

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Butter Payments. High Prices for North Coast Supplies

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 1

The North Coast Butter Factories' Association, which met at Lismore, fixed the pay for supplies received during June at 1/0¾ a lb. This is the…

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Artificial Wool. Dear and Harsh Material

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 1

Mr. C. E. Conrick, managing-director of Convelin, Ltd., who returned to Sydney by the R.M.S. Orama, said that while overseas he had seen samples of…

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Wheat Steady The Sydney Market SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 July 1936 · page 4

The city wheat market opened steady yesterday with sellers asking 3/9 ½ February sile basis for prompt bulk parcels. Buyers were offering…

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