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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1937

2,193 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 77 of 110

Butter Pay. Best Fob Seven Years

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 6

The North Coast Butter Factories' Association at a meeting in Lismore on Friday fixed the pay for supplies received during August at 1/1½ a lb…

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Butter Industry Increased Production Rains Help

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 4

Prescott, Ltd., report that most districts have benefited by the recent rains and in due coruse, production should be stimulated. Meantime,…

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Yesterday's Wool Sales. Market Lower

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 6

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report: To-day we submitted a catalogue of 3910 bales of wool. The irregularity in evidence in the market at the close of…

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Weaker Tendency Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 2

The wool sales were continued at the Sydney Wool Exchange yesterday, when 12,030" bales' were catalogued. The clearance, including private…

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Price of Butter. Attitude of the P.P. Union

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 6

Addressing the quarterly meeting of the district council of the Primary Producers' Union at Wauchope the general secretary (Mr. Shute) dealt…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory Profit of £1809 Bonus on Production

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 4

A profit of £1809/19/2 for the six months ended June 30, 1937, was revealed at the half-yearly meriting of the Bowthorne Co-operalive…

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Dairy Farmers' Co-op. Milk Co

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 2

At the annual meeting of the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co., Ltd., on Friday the chairman, Mr. A. N. Binks, said that the output of milk…

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DAIRYING. When Pastures Fail. This Value of Silage

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 4

Pasturing is no doubt the easiest method of feeding, but it is within the mark to say there is hardly a single district in the State where this can…

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The Muswellbrook Chronicle Tuesday, September 7, 1937. Equalisation Scheme. Benefit to Dairying Industry. Address by General Secretary

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 3

Speaking at the quarterly meeting of the Upper Hunter District Council of the P.P. Union at Denman, the Union's General…

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Black Beetle Damage to Maize Crops Control Measures

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 8

The Primary Producers' Union, recently naked the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Main) that experiments for the control of…

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Charge Against Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 September 1937 · page 4

Farmers, said Mr. Horsley, were more interested in the quota system and in the market system than in the fertility of the land; they were more…

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Coastal Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 12

Wincheombo, Carson Ltd. report: Sales at Wincheombe, Carson's Home-bush auction last Monday included: A. J. McDonald, Dungog, 19 steers to…

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Local Cattle Market To-day's Sales

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 3

At the Shire yards to-day Messrs Grainger and Falkiner Pty. Ltd. report having sold fat bullocks to £11 18/6, steers to £9/18/6, cows to…

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Butter Grading Sydney and Newcastle SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 10

The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended last Friday 7414 boxes of butter…

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Coming Wheat Harvest a Preliminary Estimate

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 1

A preliminary estimate issued by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. Roland Wilson) indicates that 13,774,000 acres will be under wheat…

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Farmers Resent Criticism' "Hit-or-miss" Methods Lismore, Wednesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 September 1937 · page 8

Farmers in Lismore district district are Incensed at the condemnation of their methods of farming by New Zealand farmers…

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Butter Prices Position in London Sept. 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 5

Reviewing the imoported dairy produce trade for 1936-37, W. Weddell and Company, Ltd., declare that though slightly more business was done and better prices…

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"STARVED" Australian Cattle Wellington (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 7

Referring to a Sydney cablegram resenting his criticism of cattle in Australia, Mr. J. Moore, leader of the New Zealand farmers, who recently…

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£20 a Bale Sydney Wool Average

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 8

At the wool sales in Sydney yesterday 10,034 bales were catalogued, and the cloarance, including private sales of passed-in and fellmongered wools,…

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Fifth Series London Wool Sales LONDON, Sept. 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 September 1937 · page 8

The fifth aortas of the London wool Bales for 1037 will commence on September 14 and conclude on September 24…

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