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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

2,413 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 121

Butter Substitute Menace "Masquerade" Alleged By Producers SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 6

Addressing members of Parliament, the vice-president of the Primary Producers' Union, Mr. G. W. Gordon, declared: "Substitutes are a serious menace to Australian…

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Western Woman Who Has Remarkable Record as Breeder of Shorthorn Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 1

Mrs. I. Whitney, of "Coombing Park," Carcoar, will enter her 95th year next June. She has been associated with Shorthorn cattle breeding for 76 years—surely a world's record for a woman. Despite her great years, Mrs. Whitney still takes a keen…

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Recent RACE from and GUIDE to ... Winning Selections St. Constant Appeals Class Horses at Warwick Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 9

The Doncaster favourite, St. Constant, appeals as the winner of the Liverpool Handicap, the first leg of the double at Warwick Farm to-morrow. Bourbon has the best form of the…

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Value of Farm Manure

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 4

Mr. Henry mentioned as two of the things that impressed him in England the extensive use of farm manure and the absence of thin cattle…

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District Crops Instructor's Report Good Recovery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 6

Mr. G. T. Dawson, Agricultural Instructor, states that during the past month the Hunter Valley and central coast districts have been…

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Luck of Road Farmer Rewarded

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1939 · page 12

Mr. C. J. Borman, a farmer living In the Nylstroom district of the Transvaal, rendered assistance at 2 o'clock one morning to a party of visitors…

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London Wool Sales London, April 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 9

A gratifying feature of the wool sales has been a brisk demand for crossbreds. Traders are regarding the future confidently, believing that…

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Butter Market Production Holding Export Grading Prescott Pty., Ltd., reports—

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 5

New South Wales: Production is holding well, arrivals being only Slightly less than those oF the previOus week. However, it should not be…

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Field, Farm and Dairy Agricultural Bacterial Blight of Peas

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

Bacterial blight, caused by tho bacterial organism Bacterium pisi, is one of several serious discases which affect pens and is of ion responsible for…

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The Farm Garden Building Up Fertility

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

A flower and vegetable patch, however small, should be a feature of every farm home. Most soils can be made to produce successful gardens,…

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Dairying Cysts in the Udder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1939 · page 4

A type of cyst, known as a galactocele, is not infrequently met with in the udder of the dairy cow. There may be only one or there may be…

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Sheep Firmer. Prime Cattle Values

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 5

Pitt, Son and Badgery report:—34,207 sheep and lambs penned yester day. Wethers and ewes were firmer, light lambs a little dearer, and heavy…

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Danger to Dairy Industry Butter Substitutes

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 3

"Substitutes are a serious menace to Australinn dairying, and the longer we leave them the better entrenched will they become…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 31st March:—We submitted at our sale on…

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Wool Reports

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 3

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. report on 28th March, 1939:— Our concluding catalogue of the…

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Wheat Prices Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 7

In the Sydney wheat market to-day bulk parcels were quoted at 2/4; bagged lots were nominally 2/5 a bushel…

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Butter Substitutes. Federal Hew Needed. Combating Menace

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 5

Speaking at the annual meeting of Casino Chamber of Commerce, Mr. J. T. Reid, M.L.A., said that one way of combating the butter…

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Output of Artificial Fibres. Increases Enormously. Germany's Greater Wool Purchases

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 5

Until European conditions are more settled wool values, in common with prices for other raw materials, are likely to show some…

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An All-electric Farm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1939 · page 1

Miss Lorna Byrne, B.Agr.Sc., told the members of the Glenridding Agricultural Bureau of advertising on a huge scale by American business firms…

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