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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

2,413 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 35 of 121

Dairying for Choicest Quality Cream Thorough Cleanlinees Is Essential

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 3

Dirty utensils are responsible for more inferior quality cream than any other single factor—it has been estimated that from 80 to 90 per cent, of…

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Farmer Accused of Killing Nephew Committed for Trial Auckland

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 2

In the Magistrate's Court to-day, Paul Hadfield, aged 32, Maori farmer was committed for trial on a charge of the manslaughter of his nephew…

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Premier's Advice to Junior Farmers Future of Agricultural Industry

Singleton Argus · Thursday 6 April 1939 · page 1

The Premier, Mr Stevens, in an address to the Junior Farmers at the Showground, said that in the years ahead Australia's rural…

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Butter Prizes

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 2

In the dairy produce section, the Blue Star Line continuous grading class for export butter was won by Grafton Co-operative Dairy Co…

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Paterson Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 2

Offerings at Homebush last Monday included 27 heifers from J. & W. Doosey, Paterson, which made £9/3/-, average £8/10/-; and 16 yearlings to…

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Branding of Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 6

A resident of Mt. Rivers asked for particulars of branding cattle according to law. The secretary (Mr. N. D. Bruce)…

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Raymond Terrace Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

At the half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the above company, held last week, the report disclosed that the quantity of butter made was…

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Cattle Route at Dungog

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 6

A resident of Benalba drew attention to the dangerous state of the cattle route on the eastern side of the railway line at Dungog…

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Gloucester Markets. Special Cattle Sale

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

Tom Hicks reports having conducted another very successful special cattle sale on Friday last, when practically the whole yarding was sold…

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Disease Control in Cattle Important Meeting During Sydney Show

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 6

A plan of future experiments which are of vital importance to the cattle industry in light of the investigations and observations of the R. M. Kinross'…

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Worm Farming Better Than Dairy Farming!

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 4

More than 15,000,000 worms are shipped each year from a five-acre worm farm in California. The owner an ardent fisherman who found that…

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Friesian Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 3

The use of photographs or diagrams ' of Friesian cattle submitted for transfer in now optional as the result of a decision reached by the Federal…

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Smut on Wheat Resistant Varieties What to Sow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 7

Flag smut, a disease which affects only wheat and does not occur on wild or cultivated grasses, was once a disease of considerable importance…

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DISMISSED Share Farmer's Action SINGLETON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 April 1939 · page 2

The Police Magistrate, Mr. J. Johnstone, dismissed the information after hearing evidence in the case in which Astley Slack, a farmer of Wollombi,…

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"A Scandal" Low Butter-Fat Yield SYDNEY

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 1

Sir Frederick Stewart, M.P., in proposing the principal toast at the annual, reunion of Old Boys of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, said…

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Farmer's Reply to the Milk Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 April 1939 · page 8

Sir,—In your Issue of March 28 we read the Milk Board's reply to the dairy farmers meeting regarding milk coolers. We are tola that dairymen…

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Stock Sales Cattle 10/ Cheaper Sheep Easier

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 5

Although the yarding of fat cattle at the West Maitland saleyards to-day consisted of some very fine trade quality cattle,…

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Imported Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 3

The Federal Council o[ the Poll Shorthorn Society decided that representations be made to the competent Commonwealth authorities to make it…

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Cattle Exhibits Freedom From Disease

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 2

An important lead in the agitation for the exhibition of cattle to be confined, to disease-free animals has been taken by the Poll Shorthorn Society…

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Wheat Quotes Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 April 1939 · page 1

Wheat prices in Sydney to-day were steady. Bulk parcels were quoted at 2/4½, tapped lots 2/5½ a bushel…

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