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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1938

2,173 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 83 of 109

Export Butter Graded Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 5

In the week ended September 24, 1938, the Commonwealth graders examined for export the following quantities, in boxes, of butter-Sydney…

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Wool Sales Held Up. International Situation

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 6

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., telegraphed this office last night that the Sydney wool sales were held up yesterday, buyers being unable to…

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Wool Sales Not Held. Lot Splitting. Buyers and Brokers' Dispute. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 2

Wool sales listed for to-day were cancelled following a meeting of wool buyers at the "Royal Exchange this afternoon…

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Primary Producers' Union. Executive Council Meets. Dairying Problems

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 1

Many matters affecting the interests of dairymen and mixed farmers were discussed at the quarterly meeting of the central executive council…

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Better Returns from Better Pastures. Good Feeding Essential for Profitable Dairying

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 4

A herd must be well fed if it is to produce to its maximum ability, and good pastures are no less Important than good cows. Good cows and good…

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Pasture Deterioration in Dairying Districts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 4

More than twenty-five years ago It was noted by observant dairymen that the pastures on the North Coast, which consisted then, as they do now…

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Market Notes Important Dispersal Sale. "Puen Buen" Dairy Herd. Thursday Next

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 September 1938 · page 1

The dispersal sale of the well-known "Puen Buen" Jersey herd, founded in 1910 by Colonel J. R. C. Davies, will take…

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Increases in Dairy Produce Exports Butter and Cheese

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 28 September 1938 · page 2

As a result of an increase of over 200,000 cwts. in shipments to the United Kingdom, Australian overseas butter exports for the year ended…

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Cattle Slaughtering Cessnock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 28 September 1938 · page 8

The Minister for Health (Mr. H. P. FitzSimons) has informed Kearsley Shire Council that he has had several communications recently in regard to…

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Butter Markets

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 29 September 1938 · page 4

Prescott Ltd. report: N. S. Wales:—Production continues to increase rather slowly on the North Coast, but improvement in noticeable in…

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Stud Sheep Export Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 September 1938 · page 12

"The policy of tho Graziers' Association of New South Wales re mains definitely for the retention of the embargo on the export of merino…

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Butter Supplies Production Increasing Weekly Review

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 September 1938 · page 10

Prescott, Pty., Ltd., in a review of the dairying industry, state that production continues to increase rather slowly on the North Coast, but…

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Wool Sales Keen Competition in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 September 1938 · page 11

An average selection of 17,515 bales was submitted when the Sydney wool sales were resumed. Of these 15,230 were sold at auction and an additional…

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Potato Crop Review of Conditions Frost Damage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 September 1938 · page 12

The State Marketing Bureau, Department of Agriculture, New South Wales, has issued a review of coastal potato crop conditions as at…

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GLOUCESTER Visitors From Newcastle Dairy Company Gloucester

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 September 1938 · page 10

On Sunday last 30 car-loads of Newcastle people journeyed to Copeland, and, in conjunction with a large number of…

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Farm Home Raising of Seedlings Seasonable Hints

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 29 September 1938 · page 11

With the advent of spring the garden becomes a territory of fresh interest. A departmental pamphlet on the home production of…

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Fat Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1938 · page 4

About 950 fat cattle yarded, a good trade quality offering, which included a good proportion of prime medium to heavyweight bullocks, with a fair…

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Muswellbrook Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 30 September 1938 · page 9

At Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co. Ltd's. wool sale on Wednesday, a consignment sold on behalf of W. B. Mitchelhill (Muswellbrook) sold at…

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Maitland Stock Sales Cattle Firm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 30 September 1938 · page 4

Competition was more restricted for poorer quality pigs at the Campbell's Hill saleyards on Monday and as a result prices were generally…

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