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Farming & the land, 1939

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Cattle Diseases Specialist in Maitland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 7

Mr. A. W. Marker, manager of the Spedosal Supply Co., specialists in abortion, sterility and mammitis in cattle, is now in the Maitland district…

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Gloucester Markets Special Cattle Sale

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 3

Tom Hicks reports having conducted another, record special cattle sale last week, when there was a very heavy yarding of good quality station…

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The Markets. Denman Cattle Market Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 6

Edward Higgens, Parkinson & Co., Denman, report having a fair yarding of cattle on Friday last. There was a good attendance of buyers, and…

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Wheat Silos Burned £15,000 Damage at Young Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 1

A disastrous fire occurred at Young late last night. The out brear commenced in wheat silos where 100,000 bushels of wheat…

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Warwick Farm Double Flying Handicap Six furlongs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 9

June, Aureus, Arabia. Diamond Wedding, Forward, Head Check, Cloudy. Bean Ercil, Grey Derby…

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Recent RACE form and GUIDE to Winning Selections June Ti Score Again Warwick Farm Race Prospects

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 9

June, who recorded a meritorious victory in City Tattersall's Denman Stakes at Randwick last Saturday, is expected to repeat the performance in the Flying Handicap at…

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Dairying Tests at Gresford Show Mr. H. G. Crew's Successes

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 5

Mr. H. G. Crew, of Gresford, who won the Guernsey cow championship in addition to a number of other prizes on Friday, curried off the…

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Sporting Turf To-morrow's Warwick Farm Races. Acceptances and Starting Times

Singleton Argus · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 4

Trial Hurdle Race, 1 mile (1.45). —Lockslea 10.6, Crunatus 10.2, Fernave 9.8, Fairlaw 9.6, Jester's Lady 9.6, Bowthorne 9.2, Jack Mac 9.2, Arkhein…

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Cattle Diseases Control of Vaginitis How Germ Lives

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 9

The Question in a common one, and to those dairymen who have not had this explained, the answer may be of interest…

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Stock Sales Fat Cattle Dearer Pigs Lower Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 10

A general improvement on recent sales in values for fat cattle was noticeable at the fortnightly stock sales at the…

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Butter Supplies Queensland Leads In Production 50 Per Cent Increase Canberra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 5

Figures released by the Commonwealth Statistician (Dr. R. Wilson), reveal a remarkable change in factory butter production figures in Australia…

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Poultry Lecture Tenambit Poultry Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 6

Under the auspices of the Tenambit Poultry Farmers' Association an address on poultry farming will be given on Wednesday, May 10, at 8…

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Dairy Expert Mr. J. J. Scarr Returns From Abroad NEWCASTLE

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 April 1939 · page 5

Mr. J. J. Scarr, assistant manager of the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Company, Ltd., who has been overseas for six months…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 4

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company brought forward their concluding catalogue of the present series of sales on Wednesday last…

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N.Z. Wool Cheque Auckland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 3

Final returns of the season's wool sales will not be available until next month, but it is estimated that growers will receive more than £9,000,000…

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Shortage of Meat in Germany Slaughter of Cattle Reduced One-fifth. (Australian Press Assn. Message.) BERLIN

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 1

The slaughter of cattle for meat has been reduced one-fifth. Queues for the first time are to be seen outside butchers' shops…

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Farms Benefit South-East Quarter Week-end Rain Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 1

The Acting Divisional Meteorologist, Mr. Newman, said to-day that the farms in the south-east quarter of New South Wales had…

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Sporting Turf Warwick Farm Races

Singleton Argus · Monday 1 May 1939 · page 4

Following are results of the meeting at Warwick Farm on Saturday: Trial Hurdle Race, 1½ mile.—Crunatus, 10.2 (J. Stanton), 1; Jack…

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Stock Sales Fat Cattle Firm Sheep Dearer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 5

Although the quality of the fat cattle at the Campbell's Hill sale yards, West Maitland, to-day, wan better than it was last sale day,…

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Nothing Like Wool

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 2 May 1939 · page 1

Great improvement has taken place in the maunfacture of synthetic wool in Germany and in Italy. At a recent meeting of the Farmers' and Settlers…

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