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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

1,923 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 56 of 97

Next Season's Wheat Crop. No Shortage

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 1

Mr. Tudor, the Minister for Customs, when asked whether the Federal Government intended to take action to ensure that Australia would not be left…

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Farmers' Conference. United Political Party. The Wheat Legislation

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Wednesday.—The Farmers, Conference to-day resumed the diseussion on the motion that the Farmers and Settlers' Association join forces…

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Wool Merchant's Suicide

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Wodnosday.—Goorgo Wilcox, aged 42, a wool'merchant, who recently had been suffering from norvous breakdown, was found dead at' his home,…

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Food Prices. Increase in Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 5

The Attorney-General stated yesterday that a proclamation will issue to-day increasing the price of butter a penny per ib. Merchants, said Mr. Hall, will bot be…

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Duty on Butter, Question of Suspension

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 7

On June 20, Mr. Holman, State Promier, address the following letter to Mr. Fisher, the Prime Minister, regarding the duty on butter:—…

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Wheat From South America. Arrival of First Shipments

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 4

The barque Invenlyom arrived at Adelaide from the Argentine on Mom, day, with a consignment of 110,000 bushels of wheat The Dieppedale is…

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The Sugar Crop. What Mr. Hall Is Willing to Do

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 2

During his recent visit to Melbourne, Mr. Hall, New South Wales Attorney General, had an interview with Mr. Hughes, the Federal Attorney-General,…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 4

Messrs Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, roport that the following applications for patents connected with the…

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The Sugar Crop. Government Intentions. Acquisition If Desired

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 July 1915 · page 2

Sydney, Wednesday.—The AttornoyGeneral stated to-day that while the Governmorit did not intend following Queensland's example by seizing the…

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Queensland Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 7

A deputation from the brisbane butter and cheese shippers waited on Mr. Ryan, the Queensland premier, and pointed out that, owing to the approach, of the spring,…

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High Priced Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 4

At the Homebush sale yards, yesterday, six station-fed bullocks, consigned by Captain Dangar, of Uralla, sold at £37/15/ a head, constituting a record for the year…

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The Wheat Crop. Mr. Hall's Statement. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 5

Mr. Hall, Attorney-General, stated to-day that the Government did not intend to acquire compulsorily any of next season's wheat, crop. "We will be handling our own…

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Pastoral. "Phalaris Bulbosa." Some Further Experiences

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 4

[?]at the favorable impressions so created on the coast and table[?] by the grass "Phalaris bulbosa" [?] likely to be sustained by…

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Pastoral "Phalaris Bulbosa" Some Further Experiences

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 4

That the favorable impressions so far created on the coast and table-lands by the grass "Phalaris bulbosa" are likely to be sustained by…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 3

John Bridge & Co., Ltd., report under date 10th July:— Wool.—Sales will be resumed in Sydney next week. We will open…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate, Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 221…

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Huge Wool Cargo. From Sydney to Frisco

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 7

The steamer Queen Mand, which is now inward bound from new York to Australian ports, has been taken up to load a large carge at Brisbane and Sydney for San…

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Agricultural. the Tobacco Crop. Stripping and Bulking

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 July 1915 · page 6

So much time and labor has been expended by growers before the tobacco leaf is ready for the last stage in its treatment on the farm, that the…

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