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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

2,173 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 77 of 109

Plea for Segregating Mentally Unfit Farm Colonies Suggested

Singleton Argus · Friday 9 September 1938 · page 8

A deputation representing the Racial Hygiene Association and other organisations on Wednesday waited upon the Honorary Minister (Mr A…

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Field, Farm and Dairy AGRICULTURAL Better Maize Crops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 4

The importance of seed selection in maize production cannot be too strongly stressed. Provided selection is carried out on the right lines, it is often…

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Hobart Wool Sales Hobart

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 11

At the first wool sale of the season brokers offered 272 bales and 270 tags, mostly cratchings and eye pieces. Competition was restricted, and less…

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A Huge Enterprise Dairy Farmers' Co-op. Milk Company the Annual Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 2

Some idea of the magnitude of the operations of the Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co., which draws large supplies from the Hunter Valley and Dungog districts, will be gathered from the fact that the Company purchased from producers for…

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Pigs and Pork Forage Crops For Pigs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 4

There is nothing that will solve as many of the problems of pork or bacon production as an abundance of good forage…

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Dairy Science School at Nowra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 9

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

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Relief Sought Compensation Costs to Farmers GRAFTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1938 · page 10

Speakers at the meeting of the Clarence District Council of the Primary Producers' Union at Grafton, stated that costs of workers' compensation…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 September 1938 · page 4

The Farmers & Graziers Cooperative Co. Ltd. reports on the 7th instant. We submitted at our sale on…

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Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Coy's Splendid Position Handled Million and a Quarter Gallons More Milk Last Year Sound Policy Endorsed at Annual Meeting of Shareholders

Singleton Argus · Monday 12 September 1938 · page 4

The annual meeting of shareholders in the. Dairy Farmers' Co-operative Milk Co., Ltd., held in Sydney on Friday, revealed a happy state of affairs of special interest to dairymen in Singleton and district, the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co.,…

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Arm Mangled Farm Hand's Ordeal GRAFTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 September 1938 · page 3

Walter Irwin Burns, 19, a farm hand, at Nymbolda, was working a chaffcutter when his shirt sleeves caught in the cogs and his arm was dragged…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The Fanners and Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 7th instant:— We submitted at our sale on…

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Advance in Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 8

The price of bulk wheat for prompt delivery advanced in the Sydney market by 1[?]d a bushel, bringing the rate to 2/10 a bushel, all charges paid…

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Pastoral Award Case Judge Dethridge Delivers Judgment

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 2

Judge Dethridge, in the Federal Arbitration Court on Friday, delivered judgment in the pastoral award case, covering all eastern States with…

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Surplus of £1074 Dungog Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 5

A very satisfactory position was disclosed by the directors' report and statement of accounts presented at the thirty-third annual meeting of…

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Cattle Slaughtering Act. j Proposed Amendments

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 3

Mr. J. M. Baddeley, M.L.A., has received from the Minister for Health (Mr. H.P. Fitzsimmons) a communication which reads:—…

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Wheat Market Quiet Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 1

The Sydney wheat market was quiet to-day. Bulk prices were quoted at 2/6½, Sydney March basis, and bagged lots 2/11 a bushel. Bran and pollard…

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Art. Wool Menace. Mr. Abbott's Warning

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 6

On his return, to Sydney, Mr. J. P. Abbott, vice-president of the Australian Wool Board, who, with Sir George Kelly, acted as consultants to the…

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No Improvement in in Wool Prices

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 4

On his return from abroad, the Chairman of the Australian Wool Board said he could see no reason why there should be…

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Brisbane Wool Sales Germany Chief Buyer BRISBANE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 September 1938 · page 4

Germany was the principal buyer at the Brisbane wool sales. Bradford also lent assistance, but Japan was completely out of the market…

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