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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1940

1,842 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 75 of 93

270 Miles in Cattle Truck Sick Man's Ordeal

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 October 1940 · page 2

Having been carried 270 miles from Katherine in a cattle truck, the only conveyance available, a, man who is seriously ill has been admitted to the…

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For The Man On The Land Agriculture and Pastoral Notes

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 October 1940 · page 5

(There Notes are [?] by of the [?]…

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Fat Cattle Exhibits of Royal Show Altered Conditions Sydney

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 October 1940 · page 7

Fat cattle producers who intend exhibiting at the next Royal Empire Show, to be held in Sydney in April, will welcome alterations meds by the…

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Newcastle As Wool Marketing and Export Centre Operations of "Nenco."

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 9 October 1940 · page 4

"Nenco," at Newcastle, has completed four appraisements so far this season. The fifth appraisement (known as No. 16 since the…

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Nerve Disease Loss of Dairy Herd Feared Moss Vale

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 October 1940 · page 5

The loss of an entire milking herd of high-grade [?]cattle is [?] by the development of a [?] disease [?] not previously…

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Butter Markets

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 10 October 1940 · page 3

Prescott Ltd. reports:N. S. Wales:—Some further useful rain have fallen on many of the coastal dairying districts and on the South…

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Wool Committee

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 10 October 1940 · page 8

Mr. E. L. Killen of the New South Wales Graziers’ Association has been appointed representative of the woolgrowers on the Central Wool…

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Sheep and Cattle. Yesterday's Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 1

Messrs Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report that 54,240 sheep and lambs moderate showing of prime, but the were yarded yesterday. There was a…

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Few Cattle Shipped

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 4

It had been rumoured that many head of cattle had actually been shipped from both Jersey and Guernsey to England, but persistent enquiry…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 5

Pitt. Son and Badgery, Ltd., Newcastle, offered a catalogue of 3169 bales, drawn mainly from Moree, Warialda, Tamworth. Narrabri…

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Maitland Stock Sales Cattle Market Firm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 4

The quality of the fat cattle yarded at the Campbell's Hill saleyards, West Maitland, on Monday was much improved on last week. Vealers were…

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Victorian Wheat Failure Melbourne

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 8

No crop will be harvested this season from the 400,000 to 500,000 acres of the Victorian wheat [?], Normally there would be a crop from 300,000…

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Show Fat Cattle. Altered Conditions for Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 4

Fat cattle producers who intend exhibiting at the next Royal Empire Show, to be held in Sydney in April, will welcome alterations made by the…

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270 Miles in Cattle Truck Sick Man's Ordeal

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 5

Having been carried 270 miles from Katherine in a cattle truck, the only conveyance available, a man who is seriously ill has been admitted to…

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High Level Cattle Prices In Brisbane BRISBANE

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 4

Prices paid of medi[?] heel at yesterday’s Cannon Hill sales [?] cattlemen. One grazier said bullocks which sold…

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£9,651,503 Wool Appraisements SYDNEY

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 4

The Central Wool Committee announces that wool appraisements for the current season to date amount to [?]418 bales, valued at £9,651,503…

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Store Cattle Kain Would Mean Big Move. Record "Fat" Prices May Harden

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 5

Generally speaking, the demand for store cattle is decreasing because cattle-fattening areas are short of feed, but if good general rains fall…

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Store Cattle. Rain Would Mean Big Move. Record "Fat" Prices May Harden

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 5

Generally speaking, the demand or store cattle is decreasing because cattle fattening areas are short of feed, but if good general…

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Armed Man at Large Near Rouchel Four Shots Alleged to Have Been Fired at Farmer. Intensive Police Search for Man and Girl

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 1

Scone and Aberdeen police, in charge of Detective-Sergeant Barber, of the Newcastle wireless patrol, are to-day engaged in an intensive search for a man said to be armed and accompanied by a young girl, who, it is alleged, he forced to accompany…

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MARGARINE. Menace From New Angle. Huge Damage to Dairy Industry. Pertinent Analysis

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 October 1940 · page 4

At a meeting of Yarram branch of the Victorian Dairymen's Association, Mr, L. P. Ryan, manager or the Alberton Butter Factory, revealed the…

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