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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

2,173 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 26 of 109

London Wool Sales. Better Selection Offered. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 March 1938 · page 1

A better selection was offered at the wool sales to-day, with an improved demand, chiefly from the Home trade, with improved…

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Wool Sales Good Clearances

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 16

At the wool sales in Sydney, 10,033 bales were catalogued. The clearance, Including private sales of passed-in and fell-mongered wools, amounted to…

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Empire Farmers Primary Producers to Meet British Delegates Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 March 1938 · page 4

Representatives of farmers in England and Wales and all organised farmers in Scotland and North Ireland, the British…

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Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 8

Pitt, Son and Badgery Ltd. report: At our wool sales to-day we experienced a good general demand with prices firm on yesterday, especially for…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 7

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Ltd. reports: The seventh series of sales in this centre was commenced on Monday…

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Dairy Organisation P.P.U. Organisation. Butter Scheme Debated

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 5

The power of the Primary Producers' Union in the economic life of the dairying industry was referred to by the general president, Mr. M. P…

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Maitland Stock Sales Fat Cattle Firm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 4

With a brisk demand, all classes of stock, with the exception of store pigs, maintained the best of last day's rates at the Maitland stock sales on…

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British Demand for Australian Butter. Latest Figures

Singleton Argus · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 3

As a result mainly of greater British demand for Australian butter, our butter exports to British countries exceeded the 1,000,000 cwt…

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Dairying Reconstruction of Dairy Premises Many in Need of Remodelling

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 March 1938 · page 4

The need for the reconstruction or replacement of dairy premises presents itself to many dairymen every year—more so in recent years, as the…

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Pastoral

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 4

Established areas of lucerne will stand any amount of rough treatment,but to ensure long life for a paddock it requires a certain amount of care…

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Field, Farm & Dairy AGRICULTURAL Control of Black Beetle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 4

The scarab beetle Heteronychus arator, which is a South African pest, accidentally introduced, has since 1930 become a major pest along the coast…

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DAIRYING Cleansing of Dairy Premises

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1938 · page 4

The provision of ample water supplies at all times for the washing o[ dairy utensils as well as the floors of the milking shed, dairy and inner…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 3

The Farmers & Graziers co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 23rd instant. We submitted at our sale on…

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Place of Butter in Dairy Industry. an American Broadcast

Singleton Argus · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 2

In an American broadcast giving publicity to the dairy products industry of the United States, the place of butter in the industry was…

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Butter Market Weak in London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 3

Butter has developed a sudden sharp weakness. Choicest Australian has been quoted down to 113/ per cwt without buyers showing…

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No Change Cattle at Homebush SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: Cattle: 2910 yarded. There was no quotable change. Best vealers to 44/ hundred 1b.; steers to 37/, heifers to…

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Record Crop Grapes at Fordwich SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 2

The picking of a record crop of grapes was concluded last week at J. Y. Tulloch's vineyards at Fordwich…

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Youth Killed Quirindi Farm Tragedy QUIRINDI

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 5

Thomas Boland, 18, of Quirindi, was fatally shot at his employer's dairy farm near Quirindi about 4 p.m. on Saturday…

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Training of Immigrant Children Details of Fairbridge Farm Scheme Part II

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 6

A year ago (January, 1937), Lord Nuffield donated the munificent sum of £5000 to the Fairbridge Farm School at Pinjarra, Western Australia. A week or so before Lord Nuffield's arrival at Fremantle, I travelled on board a vessel which…

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Two to Pay Compensation Sought Farmer Injured Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1938 · page 6

William Turnbull Duffin. c/o Cessnock Hotel, and Morgan Shakespeare, of Wollombi-road, Cessnock, were each ordered at Cessnock Police…

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