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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

2,173 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 59 of 109

Cattle Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 July 1938 · page 5

Brooker and Lindeman report a most successful cattle find pig sale. Over 500 cattle yarded to a good attendance of buyers. Competition was…

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Stock Sales Heavy Cattle Supply Pigs Dearer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 July 1938 · page 5

Heavy supplies of fat cattle were again forward at the Maitland stock sales to-day, and, with keen competition, recent…

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Menace to the Wool Industry Artificial Fibre

Singleton Argus · Monday 18 July 1938 · page 2

The warning issued by the former Agent-General for New South Wales, Mr A. E. Heath, that artificial fibre would prove a menace to Australian…

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Seasonal Forecast. Breeding of Stud Cattle. July Rain Periods

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 July 1938 · page 4

Mr. Inigo Jones, in his weather prediction for July, anticipates two rain groups during the month. During July a minor and aw major Mr. H. C. Carter (in the Assembly last week): I wish to ask the Minister for Agriculture whether there has been offered to the Government…

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London Wool Sales. Active Competition. LONDON

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 19 July 1938 · page 2

The selection at the wool sales to-day was moderate, and chiefly New Zealand crossbreds. Competition continued active, and good clearances…

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Maltese Poultry Farmer. Remanded on Serious Charge. Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 19 July 1938 · page 2

At the Central Police Court to-day, Joe Camilleri (32), a Maltese poultry farmer, of Wentworthville, was remanded on a charge of having at…

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Wauchope Chosen For Dairy Science School

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 July 1938 · page 3

Earlier in the year it was announced that in continuation of the policy of giving instruction to dairy factory employees, arrangements had been…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 July 1938 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the fifteenth instant: Interest in the Trade is centred at…

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Local Cattle Market To-day's Prices

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 July 1938 · page 3

At the Shire yards to-day Messrs W. Bailey and Sons report having sold fat bullocks to £11/14/, steers to £10/16/, cows to £8/8/6, helfers…

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Stabilised Wheat Price Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 July 1938 · page 4

The state Cabinet empowered the Premier (Mr. B. S. B. Stevens) to call a meeting of Premiers to discuss the suggestion of the Premier of South…

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Wool Sales in London (Australian Press Assn. Message.) LONDON

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 July 1938 · page 1

The selection offered at the wool sales to-day was moderate Demand Was less active, and withdrawals were more frequent…

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For Quality in Dairy Products

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 July 1938 · page 8

Quality in milk and cream is not accidental-it is the re-sult of care that conditions shall be satisfactory in a…

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Butter Report

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1938 · page 1

N. S. Wales:—Reports from dairying centres are favourable and it is unlikely that production will be any lower this season. Choicest is in good demand…

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"Milk Wool" German Manufacture

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 July 1938 · page 2

Up to this time the so-called "mills wool" has been produced only in Italy, from which it took its commercial name "lana Italiana."…

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Wheat Belt Beneficial Rainfall More to Come Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 July 1938 · page 7

The State Meteorologist, Mr. Mares, said to-day that a wide area of the State had useful rain yesterday and last night,…

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Sewerage Farm "Not an Ideal Site" SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 July 1938 · page 2

Patrick Plains Shire Council does not think that the area selected at "Cliffdale," Whittingham, for the sewerage farm is the ideal site…

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The Raymond Terrace Dairy Co. Factory Report for June, 1938

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 21 July 1938 · page 1

Markets: Australia: butter 1/5 per lb, cheese 10 1/2d per lb; London 1/1 and 7 1/2d. Equalisation Quota: Butter 10 per cent export average price 1/4.4d per lb…

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Gundibri Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 22 July 1938 · page 8

Twenty-two steers sold at Flemington on Tuesday by Pitt, Son and Badgery on account Gundibri Estate, realised to £12, averaging £11/8/6…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 July 1938 · page 5
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on tHe 15th instant: Interest in the trade is centred at…

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