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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1939

2,413 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 81 of 121

Japanese Wool Buying Generally Improved Consumption

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: A moderate quantity of good top-making: and average spinners' greasy wools have recently been purchased…

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More Bales Per Clip Better-conditioned Wool Market Prospects

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 6

The effects of the better pastoral season are shown in the larger arrivals of wool and the increased number of bales in the clips received at the…

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Gloucester Pastures Protection Board. Legislation for Registered Cattle Brands Proposed Directors Critical Fox Scalp Bonus Not Favoured

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 6

The Gloucester Pastures Protection Board at its quarterly meeting on 4th inst. rejected a proposal by the Manning River Stock Owners'…

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Disastrous Floods Farm Houses Overwhelmed. Auckland

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 2

Floods continue in many parts of the north island of New Zealand. Police and volunteers are out in boats to-day rescuing families who have been marooned…

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Serious Flood Damage In New Zealand North Island Water Pours Through Farm Houses Heavy Stock Losses Auckland (N.z.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 7

Floods continue in many parts of the north island of New Zealand. Police and volunteers are out in boats to-day at Shannon and Levin, rescuing families who have been marooned…

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Cattle at Homebush

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report:—At our Homebush auction on Thursday 9 steers from L. S. Cooper, Bundook, ninde lo £9/5/, at £8/6/9, at…

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Pastoral Spring Care of Sown Pastures

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 4

Proper management is imperative if the full benefit is to be obtained from money spent on pasture improvement. If pasture mixtures sown in the…

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Wingham Butter Pay Wingham

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 5

Suppliers to the Wingham Rural Co.-Op. Society Ltd., during July were paid 1/0 [?] per 1b for choicest butler, and 11[?]d per lb for second grade. The…

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Accused's Plea "Attacked by Sheep" WELLINGTON

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 1

Charged with attempted sheep stealing. Claude Wells pleaded that the sheep had stampeded and knocked him down. He said the sheep attacked him…

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Butter Industry Slight Increase In Production Prices for Week Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 9

Minimum prices determined by the Australian Dairy Produce Board for sales of salted and unsalted butter on and after to-day, until further…

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Field, Farm and Dairy Agricultural Inoculation of Lucerne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 4

Growers from time to time inquire whether the application of cultures of nodule-fornilng bacteria is recommended to lucerne…

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"Will I" Real Question For Mr. Dunstan Wheat Industry Canberra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 1

The Federal Government did not anticipate any constitutional difficulty in carrying out its proposals for stabilising the wheat…

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Dairy Products Quotas

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 10

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Reid, on the recommendation of the New South Wales Dairy Produce Board, has decided upon the following…

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Dairying Winter Feed Abundant This Season

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 4

In most dairying districts winter feed was more abundant this year than for some considerable time. It will be interesting to examine, when…

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Dairy Science School at Wingham WINGHAW

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 5

Eighteen students attended a dairy science school held this week at the Wingham Butter Factory. The school was the third of a series…

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Gloucester Dairy Co. Gloucester

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 August 1939 · page 8

The Gloucester Dairy Co. manufactured 150,086lb. of choicest and 2951 of second grade butter for July. Suppliers were paid 1/1 for [?]cest ard…

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Stock Sales Good Quality Cattle Forward Sheep Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 August 1939 · page 5

The yarding of fat cattle at the Campbell's Hill saleyards, West Maitland, to-day, was far superior in quality to recent supplies. Some…

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Local Butter Quality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 10

The State butter grading staff of the Department of Agriculture examined at Sydney and Newcastle, during the week ended August. 11. 11,879…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 22 August 1939 · page 5
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative co. Ltd. reports on the 18th instant:—Preparations for the opening of the new season's auctions on the 28th…

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