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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

1,842 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 31 of 93

Farm Work Cheapest for Power Premier’s View

Maitland Mercury · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 4

In a letter to the Clydesdale Horses Society, the Premier (Mr. Meir) stated that the Government’s station station Registration Bill…

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For The Man On the Land Agricukure and Pastoral Notes

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1940 · page 6

(There Notes are used by direction of the [?] as another for agriculture and are based [?] to the experience of this [?] would any [?] intersection [?] to this work on the had set married to be these Notes at the [?]…

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Maize Crops American Smut Found Bathurst Area

Maitland Mercury · Saturday 6 April 1940 · page 2

American maire smut has [?] found in crops on three properties the Bathurst district, as the result an inspection by departmental [?]…

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Stock Sales Fat Cattle Dearer Sheep Lighter

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 5

Although the yarding of the [?] of the cam[?] Hill [?] day was [?] now up to [?]…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 3

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-op erative Co. Ltd. reports on the 5th instant:—We submitted our 19th appraisement; catalogue of 5370 bales on…

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Heavy Loss Victorian Apple Crop MELBOURNE

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 8

Apple leases m Victoria, particularly of Jonathans, caused by the unusual hot weather in March, are estimated at no fewer than 500,000 cases…

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Cross Charges Mount View Residents Share Farmers Cessnock

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 1

Before Mr. C. G. Carr-Boyd, at the Cessnock Police Court to-day. Leonard Bridge charged Augustans S. G. King with assault, King also charged…

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Illawarra Herd Experimental Farm

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 3

Three cows and a bull have arrived at the Grafton Experiment. Farm, where a herd of Australian Illawarra Shorthorn cattle is to be established…

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Frank Wootton Farmers Jockey Dead Brilliant Career

Maitland Mercury · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 6

R[?] as one of the [?] the world has [?]…

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Interests of Farmers Who Enlist Government's Scheme

Singleton Argus · Monday 8 April 1940 · page 2

Steps taken by the New South Government to safeguard the interests of landholders who had joined the A.I.F. were proving of great value,…

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Wool Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 3
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Co., Ltd., reports on the 5th instant:—We submitted our 19th Appraisement Catalogue of 5370 bales on…

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The Markets. Denman Cattle Market Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 5

Edward Higgens, Parkinson & Co., Denman, report having a small yarding, comprised only of stores, on Friday last. There was a large…

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Sheep in Queensland Merinos and Crossbreds

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report: —Queensland stock returns show that in every year but one since 1929, the State has pastured over 20,000,000…

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Producer Gas Plant Operating on Local Farm

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 6

After hearing so much about "producer-gas" plants abroad, and experiments in Australia, it comas as a pleasant surprise to see one in…

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Share-farming Agreement. Action in District Court. Verdict for Defendant

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 4

The case in which Andrew Harold McClymont proceeded against Claudius Clarendon Foot, claiming £252/9/6 damages for alleged…

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Romance of Baerami Great Hopes Prom Oil Shale Farmer's Find 60 Years Ago

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 April 1940 · page 2

On a bright morning, about 60 years ago, a farmer was trudging behind his plough, watching the seemingly endless stream of earth…

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Sheep in Queensland Merinos and Crossbreds

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 10 April 1940 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd. report:— Queensland stocK returns show that in every year but one since 1929, the state has pastured over…

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