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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 176…

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War Food Prices. War Food Price. Government Seize Wheat. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 2

A deputation representing the Flour Millers' Association interviewed Mr. Hall, Attorney-General, yesterday, and reported that the…

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Necessary Commodities. Commission Fixes Prices. Wheat, 4s 3d; FLOUR, £9 TO £9 10s; BREAD, 3½d

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 1

THE State Governor has, acting on the recommendations of the Necessary Food Commodities Commission, issued a proclamation fixing…

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German Sugar Crop. London, Sept. 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 5

In the House of Commons inst night Mr. Alexander MacCallam Scott (Liboral) asked whether Germany was attempting to realise on her sugar crop by exporting the surplus,…

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Dairying. Herd Improvement. One Means of Achieving It

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

One of the most direct testimonies to the hold-testing system that could be obtain is mentioned somewhat incidentally by the Dairy Instructor, for the…

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Agricultural. Crops for Green Feed

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 4

Green feed suitable for poultry has exercised a number of poultry farmers this spring, and lately suggestions were made by the Poultry Export for…

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Agricultural. Crops Fob Green Feed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 September 1914 · page 3

Green feed suitable for poultry has exercised a number of poultry farmers this spring, and lately suggestions were made by the Poultry Expert for…

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No. 176. Pastoral Sheep Maggot Flies. Suggestions for Checking Them

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 6

Since the formation of the Government Sheep Fly experiment station in the Brewarrina district in September, 1913, a considerable amount of…

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Starving Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus

A consignment of starving sheen, some 7500 in all, arrived here on Wednesday from Victoria. The sheep, which were nil stores, in low condition, have been taken to…

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Store Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 4

A big sale of store cattle is announced to be held at Gloueester on Tuesday next by Messrs, Stanley Jones and Co. The yarding will comprise 350 and Co. The…

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Wheat Supplies. Government Action

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 3

Important and decisive action by the Government to enforce, observance of the proclamation, fixing the maximum selling price of wheat throughtout the…

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Wheat Supplies. Government Action

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 5

Important and decisive, action by the Government to enforce observance of the proclamation, fixings the maximum selling price of wheat throughout the…

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Wheat Seized. Prompt Government Action

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 7

The police on Thursday seized on behalf of the State Government 142,000 bags of wheat stored' in the railway sheds at Darling Island…

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The Butter Industry. Question of Cool Storage

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 14

Fears having been expressed as to the extent to which the European war might affect the export of butter, the Minister of Agriculture, Mr. W. G. Ashworth, has had…

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Wheat and Gas. Drastic Government Action

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 2

A proclamation was issued on Thursday afternoon, giving the Government authority to seize and distribute all the [wheat stored at Darling Island]…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 September 1914 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Asnford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department…

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