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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

2,193 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 68 of 110

Cattle Sale Values at Tamworth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 9

Messrs. Mahony and Co., auctioneerts Tamworth, report:-We conducted a special sale of 800 splendid quality cattle at Tamworth municipal…

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Farm Home Pruning of Shrubs Points Stressed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1937 · page 8

Their pruning is one of the most important phases in the growing of shrubs. The art of ^pruning, as applied to ornamental as well as…

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Cattle Movements

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

Cattle movements have continued to be brisk, and all classes are moving out freely. So far there does not appear to be a shortage of fats,…

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Tamworth Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

Messrs Mahony and Co., auctioneers, Tamworth, report:— We conducted ft special sale of 800 splendid quality, cattle at Tamworth…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus, The Scone Advocate

The Farmers and Graziers Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 6th instant:— Shearing is progressing…

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Wheat Crop Position in Victoria MELBOURNE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

Po The Weather Bureau in its monthly report, states that in the greater part of the Malice wheat crops are making substantial headway…

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Newcastle Wool Sales

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 3

Nenco, at Newcastle, is preparing its catalogue for the opening sale of the season, to take place on September 9th. The company is being favoured…

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Stock Sales No Cattle at Flemington To-day Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 6

Cattle.—There were 110 supplies forward in this section. Sheep.—1200 yarded, the offering being mixed. The market generally was…

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Milk Board Inquiry Evidence of Dairy Farmers

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 1

At the Milk Board inquiry in Sydney on Wednesday, Robert Valentine Moore, dairyfarmer, of Camdon, and secretary of the…

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Ingenious Invention by Farmer

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 6

Mr. T. Starr, well-known grazier, of "Escholl," Dalton, has invented and patented a gate which will open and close automatically…

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SWEATING Dairymen's Children Milk Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 5

Otto Brown, a dairyman and solicitor of Narelian, told the Milk Board that a largo proportion of dairymen were only able to carry on because they…

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Keeping Up Wholesale Price Part of Coffee Crop to Be Destroyed

Singleton Argus · Friday 13 August 1937 · page 7

Thirty per cent. of the 1937-38 Brazilian coffee crop will be burned or dumped into the ocean, in order to keep up the United States wholesale price of…

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Quirindi Butter Quirindi

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 August 1937 · page 9

Despite the dry and unsuitable seasons the Quirndl Butter Factory concluded its year to june 30 with a profit of £1500, derived from only about…

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Record Price For Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 August 1937 · page 9

Believed to be a Melbourne record price for a Corriedale stud ram, a Scottish breeder recently paid 345 guineas for a two-year-old, sold for…

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Supplies Short New South Wales Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 August 1937 · page 11

The monthly report to the Producers Co-operative Distributing Society states that supplies of butter are very short, the intake from factories during July being…

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Motto Farm Government May Buy SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 August 1937 · page 2

The Commonwealth Government, acting at the request of the State Government, which has promised to improve the ground, is considering the purchase of the…

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Ensuring Safety Warwick Farm Crossing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 August 1937 · page 8

Motor users will have to suffer deluy and inconvenience at the railway level crossing at Warwick Farm, on the Hume Highway, for another four…

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Not Suitable for Sheep Murwillumbah

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 August 1937 · page 4

The opinion of expert officers of the Ecpartment of Agriculture la that the country in the Tweed district is not cultable for sheep-raising. The very high…

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