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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

2,173 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 61 of 109

Prices Fixed Butter Equalisation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 July 1938 · page 5

The Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee Ltd. estimates that the equalisation price for butter for July will be 1/3.9 per 1b. and for…

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Local Cattle Market To-day's Prices

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 27 July 1938 · page 3

At the Shire yards to-day Messrs W. Bailey and Sons report having sold fat steers to £12, cows to £10 1/, heifers to £8/19/, vealers to £8…

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Wheat Price For Home Consumption Reply to Mr. Huie

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 July 1938 · page 10

In the Corowa (N.S.W.) Free Press of July 15, Mr. A. G. Huie stated that the recent suggestion of a home consumption price of 5/ a bushel for…

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Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 28 July 1938 · page 4

Prescott Pty. Ltd. report. N. S. Wales:—Although, production in some districts continues to decline there is a slight improvement in other…

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Useful Life Late Mr. W. J. McDonald Pastoral Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 July 1938 · page 9

By the sudden death at his residence, "Collyben," West Maitland, recently, of William James McDonald, the district has lost…

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Butter Price Rise Farmers Deplore Attitude of Housewives

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 5

A motion deploring the objections of the Housewives' Association to the increase in the price of butter will be submitted to the annual…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on 22nd instant:— The fourth series of the London…

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Price of Butter Equalisation Figures

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 2

The Commonwealth Dairy Produce Equalisation Committee Ltd. estimates that the equalisation price for butter for July will be 1/3.9 per lb…

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Verdict of Great Importance to Dairy Farmers Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 7

The Full Bench of the Supreme Court to-day delivered a verdict of great importance to dairy farmers. It set aside a verdict for £204 against Marton McCabe, a cheese manufacturer in the Kempsey district, given in the…

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Grave Concern Substitutes for Wool Position Abroad Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 1

Sir Norman Kater, who returned to Sydney to-day after a visit overseas, expressed grave' concern at the increase in the use or substitutes for…

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Substitutes for Wool Sir Norman Kater Expresses Concern. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 6

Sir Norman Kater, who returned to Sydney to-day after a visit overseas, expressed great concern at the use of substitutes for wool in Europe and…

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MIGRATION European Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 3

Of 75 migrants from seven European countries who arrived in Sydney by the Italian steamer Viminale, the majority described themselves as…

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Reserves Enable Confident Farming

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 6

He returned to the farm in 1922, some years after having come back from the war, to find the barn empty, and the lucerne paddock deteriorated…

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Dairy School Students Seek Certificates

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 5

Nine dairy students, including a girl from Penrith, and youths from Dungog, Gloucester, und Bowthorne, are taking part in a dairy school at…

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Dairy Produce Board

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 July 1938 · page 4

The Australian Dairy Produce Board, at its 13th annual meeting, which began in Melbourne on Tuesday, decided to continue unchanged…

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Wool Substitutes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 3

A textile engineer from Berlin said the German wool substitutes, woolstra and vistra, were constantly improving in quality, and it was now almost…

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Official Estimate European Wheat Crop ROME, July 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 1

The International Institute of Agriculture estimates that the European wheat crop, excluding Russia, will be 4½ million metric tons…

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Dairy Farms Coastal Championship Field Days

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 4

Mr. F. V. Sparke, of Stradbroke, Woodville, won the northern division of the dairy farm competition, for which prize money was presented by…

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Field, Farm and Dairy DAIRYING Silage For Security

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 July 1938 · page 4

In no business was it safe to be Without a reserve, pointed out Colonel T. E. W. Irwin, of Bega, in an account at a recent Agri ltural Bureau…

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