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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

2,413 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 72 of 121

National Pool Proposed As Wheat Aid

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 8

Mr S. Lockhart, a Former president of Victorian Wheat-growers'…

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Butter Export Official Figures for 1938-39 Season

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 4

Latest official figures indicate that exports of Australian butter during the 1938-39 season have totalled 1,601,964 cwt., compared with…

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Late Mr. William Henry Small Pioneer of Dairying Industry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 3

The death of Mr. William Henry Small, on Sunday last, removes from our midst one who had shared in the task of establishing the dairying…

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Profit of £44,952 Farmers and Graziers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 4

Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance, and Agency Co., Ltd. earned a nett profit of £44,952 for the year ended June 30, 1939, after…

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The Maize Crop Preparation of the Soil

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 6

Thorough preparation of the land is important in the case of any crop, and none responds better to good cultivation than maize. If maize has…

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Australian Dairy Produce Board Annual Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 4

When the Australian Dairy Produce Board meets on the 31st of this month for its annual meeting in Melbourne, the first business will be the…

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Australian Dairy Produce Board Official Report Board's Annual Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 3

When the Australian Dairy Produce Board meets on the 31st of this month for its annual meeting in Melbourne, the first business will be the…

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Field, Farm and Dairy. Agricultural Preparing Soil for Maize Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 July 1939 · page 4

Thorough preparation of tho land is important in the case of any crop, and none responds better to good cultivation than maize. If maize has been…

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Dairying Stainless Metal Equipment

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 July 1939 · page 4

Discussing recant trends in the dairying industry, an article in the "Agricultural Gazette" refers to the reduction during the past year in the amount…

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Sheep Cheaper Sales at Homebush Cattle Unchanged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 2

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report: 44,362 sheep and lambs penned, prime quality generally. Light lambs were weaker, and all other classes 6d to 1/…

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Wheat Market Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 1

Sydney wheat market was steadier to-day, Bulk parcels were quoted at 2/. Sydney March basts, basts, bagged lots 2/3 [?] a bushel…

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Stock Sales Porker Values Decrease Sheep Easier

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 5

Supplies in all sections at tho Maitland stock sales to-day were satisfactory, and there were no drastic changes in values…

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Pleas of Guilty Newcastle Sessions Sheep Stealing Case Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 5

In the Quarter Sessions this afternoon, George Ramsay Wright, 25, station hand, pleaded guilty to charges that, at Moree, on June 12, he stole…

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Dairy Industry Review of Conditions Price Unaltered

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 2

Prescott Pty, Ltd., reviewing the dairy industry, state that production continues to shrink a little in most centres, but in other areas a slight…

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In Support of Milk Board Control "Helped the Farmer."

Singleton Argus · Monday 31 July 1939 · page 4

"Board control has worked to the advantage of producers in many ways," said the chairman of the Milk Board (Mr R. H. Nesbitt) in a…

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Dungog Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 2

A contract has been let to Mr. J. C. Pickles, of Waratah, for the erection of a refrigeration chamber at the Dungog Co-operative Butter…

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More Money From Our Dairy Farms Plan to Relieve the Butter Situation Manufacture of Other Dairy Products

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 3

Much consideration is at present being given in this. State to the possible manufacture of other dairy products in order to rcduce the butter surplus…

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Wheat Trade Problem

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 7

Mr R. C. Tilt, manager of the Victorian Wheat-growers…

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Huge Sheep at the Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 2

Three pens of crossbred wethers of immense size were sold at the Flemington saleyards late on Thursday afternoon, and attracted much…

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Wheat Market Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 1 August 1939 · page 1

The Sydney wheat market was a shade steamer to-day bulk parcels being quoted at [?] Sydney March basis bagged lots [?]…

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