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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

2,193 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 71 of 110

Bright Wool Outlook. General Confidence

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 6

"Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The uncertainty which prevailed regarding values at the opening Sydney wool sales a year ago is entirely…

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Butter for Consumption on Local Market Grading Figures

Singleton Argus · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 1

The State butter grading stuff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle- during the week ended Augusut 13, 8643 boxes of…

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Wool and Stock Salesmen Acquire New Premises

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 2

Messrs. Schute, Bell, Badgery, Lumby, Ltd., have completed and removed to new premises in Chatsworth House, 1 to 7 Bond-street, Sydney, where…

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Model Farm Poultry Demonstration at Glenridding SlNGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 2

A party approximating 30, under the auspices of Glenridding Agricultural Bureau, visited the model poultry farm of Mr. Tom Ernst, at Clydesdale…

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Eighty Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 3

The district committee Appointed by tho Government to inspect holdings offered for closer settlement believes that Gordon-brook find Baryulgil stations, both on the…

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DAIRYING Continuity of Supply Urgent Need

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 8

The district agrostologist at Llomore, Mr. L. W. McLennan, in a statement to the press, voiced the opinion that the big gulf between…

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Otato Crop Proposed Competition Bolwarra Bureau

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 5

The potato crop competition proposed to be conducted by the Bolwarra Agricultural Bureau in conjunction with the Maltland Show council engaged the attention…

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Tuncurry Prison Farm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 2

Mr. C. E. Bennett (U.A.P., Gloucester) asked the Minister for Mines and Forests (Mr. R. S. Vincent) in the Assembly on Tuesday whether it was…

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Junior Farmer Movement

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 August 1937 · page 4

The Secretary was instructed to write to the Department of Agriculture for the supply of full articulars necessary for the establishment of a…

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Field Farm&dairy Agricultural Selection of Maize

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 4

The character of the seed has a considerable influence on the maize crop and proper care should be exercised by the grower in its selection…

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DAIRYING The Form Separator

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1937 · page 4

There are many styles of separators, but all make use of centrifugal force exerted within the separator bowl to separate the lighter from…

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Significant Figures in Dairy Exports Butter Losses

Singleton Argus · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 2

In 1936 the people of Great Britain bought butter for £44,057,000, which would have cost £39,284,000 more if the price of 1929…

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Japanese Wool Freights Tokio, August 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 7

The "Asam Smm[?]" reports that fre[?] rates for South Africa and South American wool to Japan will be raised by 50 per cent. in September…

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A Dairying Problem

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 August 1937 · page 4

The extracts from an interesting address, recently, delivered by Lieutenant-Colonel,. G. P. Pollitt before, the Royal Society of Arts,…

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Butter for Export Sydney, Tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 August 1937 · page 8

In the week ended August 21, 1937, the Commnonwealth graders examined for export the following quantilles of butter:-Sydney: salted 1208 boxes,…

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Bleached Wheat Milling Qualities

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 August 1937 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Main) was naked by the P.P. Union for particulars with regard to the milling and baking qualities of l…

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Saving Sheep Shearing Delayed SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 August 1937 · page 7

The Secretary of the Graziers' Association, Mr. Allen, said to-day that to prevent possible loss of life the shearing of big flocks of sheop in the…

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Butter Supplies Increase in Some Parts Export Gradings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 August 1937 · page 4

Prescott, Ltd., in their weekly review of the butter industry, states that although there has been a Blight Improvement in output in some districts, reports…

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Shearing Deferred. Thousands of Sheep Saved. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 August 1937 · page 2

The secretary of the Graziers' Association (Mr. Allen) said today that in order to prevent possible losses of life shearing of big…

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Cold Snap Kills Sheep Thousands Lost Forbes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 August 1937 · page 4

Many sheep have died as a result of the recent sudden cold map In the Forbes district. The estimates are as Mali as 15,000,…

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