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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

2,193 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 110

Cattle Injured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 2

A timber lorry and trailer travelling towards Gresford ran into a mob of bullocks at the turn at the bottom of Willard's Hill on Monday…

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Wool Cheque

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 2

Wool sold in Australia during the nine months ended March realised £50,260,000, being £640,000 more than during the whole 1935-36 season…

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New Gloucester Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 2

On Tuesday, 20th inst., the new butter factory and plant at Gloucester will be officially started. The new factory is one of the most modern in…

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Butter Boxes Australian Timber Test Urged

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 5

The decision of the New Zealand Government to restrict the export of white pine, which is used largely for making butter boxes, has placed the…

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Butter—Cheese. Voluntary Equalisation. Scheme to Continue

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 3

A meeting of representatives of buter and cheese factories in Victoria on Wednesday passed a resolution supporting a continuance of the…

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Wool Outlook Bright. General Trade Recovery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— All indications point to the balance of this season's clip commanding keen competition at an excellent level of…

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Pastoral Firms Link Up. Schute, Bell & Co. and Keith Badgery, Lumby & Co

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 1

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report: We have much pleasure in advising that our company, which has carried on business as wool and…

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Bonnie Legion May Have Change of Luck in Sprint Warwick Farm Barramul Chosen for Handicap Mohican for Mile

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 9

Although left many lengths at the start of the La Perouse Handicap at Randwick, Bonnie Legion finished so fast that he was within five lengths of the winner, Silver Rose,…

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Dairy Produce Equalisation Scheme Support in Victoria

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 6

Representaives of the butter and cheese factories in Victoria on Wednesday passed a resolution supporting the continuation of the Commonwealth…

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Good Double-up Bet for the Farm

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 9 April 1937 · page 8

A good double-up bet at Warwick Farm to-morrow should prove to be Battle Play in the Hurdle race and…

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Cattle Killed by Train

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 9

During the week a mob of fat cattle, which were to be trucked at Willow Tree, strayed on to the railway line during the night, and were run into by…

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Stroud Show Rain Mars Opening Session Dairy Cattle Weaker Stroud

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 10

Threatening weather, with two sharp showers during the afternoon, marred the first session of the 16th annual show of the Stroud Agricultural and Horticultural Association…

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Butter Boxes White Pine Shortage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 11

The decision of the New Zealand Government to restrict the export of white pine, which is used largely for making butter boxes, has placed the…

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Warwick Farm Goorka's Victory in Sprint Handicap to Kinsfolk Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 6

Allowed to go out at double figures, Goorka proved too good for the sprinters opposed to him in the Denham Court Handicap at Warwick Farm this afternoon. In an exciting finished defeated Mark…

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Field Farm & [?]Airy Agriculture Sowing Of Oats

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 4

As with all crops, the first of the essential points in the successful growing, of oats is the selection of a good sample of seed. The grain…

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DAIRYING. Fodder Reserves

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 4

Although the farmer has had the necessity for fodder conservation "drummed into, him," and droughts of more or less severity have also…

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Farm Home Home Vegetable Garden

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 4

Homo vegetable growing is too important in many country districts to be classed as a hobby. In those localities, mainly the more distant inland…

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Road Needed King's Island Farmers Shire Deputation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1937 · page 4

A deputation of King's Island farmers met Bolwarra Shire Council yesterday afternoon with a request for a better road from their area, which…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 6th instant: We submitted at our sale on…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 April 1937 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., reports:— This Company submitted a catalogue of 4139 bales on Thursday last, the 8th…

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