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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

2,173 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 65 of 109

Improving Dairy Pasture Lands

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1938 · page 3

Under Die above heading: "The Primary Producer" in its last issue says: The dairy farmers in the coastal districts of New South Wales have…

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Damage to Maize Crops Heavy Losses Due to Disease

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 9 August 1938 · page 4

Addressing a recent conference or farmers at Candelo, the departmental agricultural instructor for the district referred to the prevalence of disease…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 August 1938 · page 3

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. Ltd. reports on the 5th instant: The opening of the Australian…

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Local Cattle Market Today's Prices

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 August 1938 · page 3

At the Shire yards to-day Messrs W. Bailey and Sons report selling fat bullocks to £11/19/, steers to £11 6/, cows to £9/18/6, heifers to £9…

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Butter Quality Gradings for the Week

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 August 1938 · page 9

The state butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined, at Sydney and Newcastle during the week ended August 5, 8247 boxes…

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Sugar and Dairying Industries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 August 1938 · page 6

THE perennial complaints and controversy respecting the price of sugar continues with unabated vehemence. In Victoria the…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association Forecast of Empire Organisation. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 August 1938 · page 2

In his presidential address at the opening of the Farmers arid Settlers' Association to-day, Mr Henley, M.L.C, forecast the formation of an Empire…

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Butter Box Timber

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 11 August 1938 · page 4

After a lengthy discussion, following reports that experiments in shipping butter in boxes made of hemlock timber had proved successful, the Board passed the…

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Price of Wheat Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1938 · page 1

The Farmers and Settlers Association conference to-day carried a resolution urging that every effort should he made to have a…

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Wheat in Australia Canberra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1938 · page 12

The Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. R. Wilson) estimates that the area sown to wheat in Australia for the current season as 14.178.000 acres,…

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Citrus Crops Review of Conditions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 August 1938 · page 9

The Director of Marketing, Mr. A. A. Watson, in a review of the citrus industry, as at August 1, states that during the greater part of July, dry…

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World Wheat Record Crop Possible

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 2

The Commonwealth Statistician, Dr. Ronald Wilson, estimates the area sown in wheat in Australia for the current season at 14,178,000 acres…

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The World's Wheat Record Crop Possible

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 4

The Commonwealth Satistician, Dr. Roland Wilson, estimates the area sown to wheat in Australia for the current season at 14,178,000 acres,…

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Wear More Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 2

A well-known grazier, Mr. A. C. Blaxland, declared in an interview in Melbourne that if every Australian could be induced to wear 28lbs. more…

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Motion Rejected Tariff on Machinery Farmers' Conference Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 1

When the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association met to-day, a motion that the tariff on agricultural machinery be abolished…

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'Hasten Slowly' Compulsory Testing of Dairy Herds P.P. Union View

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 6

Sneaking at the meeting of Central Hunter branch of the Primary Producers' Union at Singleton yesterday, Mr. J. L. Schute,…

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Farmer's Death Body Found in Gully MANILLA

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 9

The body of Ambrose Roy Blanch, 37, farmer, was found in a gully 300 yards from his father's home, about three miles from Manilla. A single…

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Farmers and Settlers Conference

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 2

Many subjects relating to the land were, discussed at the annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, which opened in Sydney on…

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Building Up Fertility In the Farm Garden

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 4

With the approach of spring conditions, renewed interest will be taken in the garden which should be a feature of every farm home…

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Farmers Impatient for Local Rural Electricity Deputation From P.P. Union to Meet Both Councils. Mr Pankhurst Resents Alderman's Remarks

Singleton Argus · Friday 12 August 1938 · page 8

At the quarterly meeting of the Central Hunter District Council of the Primary Producers' Union, held at the Masonic Hall…

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