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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

1,960 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 8 of 98

Swedish Butter. Christiania, Jan. 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 January 1916 · page 8

The export of butter has been prohibited…

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Goulburn Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 6

W. H. Wheatley reports selling 1776 head of mixed cattle at an average of £7 2s 6d at Goulburn on Tuesday, the 18th instant. There was a large attendance of local buyers, and from the…

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Sheep-skin Waistcoats

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

The Tanned Shoepskin Clothing Committee have this season disposed of 75,396 waistcoats for distribution to Australian…

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Roumanian Wheat Purchased by Britain

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 3

London Sunday.—Great Britain has purchased £10,000,000 worth of Roumanian wheat…

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Australian Butter. Cheaper in England Than Australia

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 2

Sydney, Monday.—A report from Melbourne states that Australians are paying more for their butter than the price at which Australian butter is being sold…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 January 1916 · page 1

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

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London Wool, Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 1

Winchcombo Carson Ltd, have received the following cable from London:—Good merine woole are 5 per cent, higher. Medium wools and pieces par to 6 per cont…

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Wheat Acquisitions. Compensation to Be Granted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 January 1916 · page 3

The Attorney-General (Mr. Hall) yesterday made available the report of the Necessary Commodities Commission on the subject of claims for additional compensation…

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The Wheat Crop. Assisted by Railway Extension

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 3

The Premier (Mr. Holman), in referring to the State wheat crop a few days ago, said that the Government should be given credit for a considerable portion of the increase,…

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German Resources. Cattle and Poultry Census

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 January 1916 · page 2

Why Germany is so frantic to secure fodder through Holland is made clear by the cattle and poultry census taken on October 1, the results of which appear in the German…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 2

The Australian Mercantile, Land and Finance Co., Ltd., report 27th January, 1916 :—No wool sales are being held in the Sydney market this week owing to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

These 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. 247…

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How Dairymen Should Help Themselves

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 3

In declaring the Wollongong Show officially open last week, Mr. G. M. Burns, M.H.R., had a word to say about co-operation…

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Compensated Farmers

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 2

The Attorney General is hopeful that it will not be long before farmers will receive the additional compensation granted to them by the Government for wheat seized under…

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Dairy Notes

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 28 January 1916 · page 3

The cream supply at Coraki is down to zero. Last month only 26 tons of butter were manufactured at the local factory, as against 122 tons for December…

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Pastoral. Sheep Blow Flies. Effects of Dips and Dressings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 January 1916 · page 12

Pastoralists do not need to be reminded of the investigations that have been proceeding for two years in connections with the sheep blowfly under the direction of the…

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Store Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 January 1916 · page 2

Messrs Higgens, Parkinson & Co., announce the holding, of their next special sale of store cattle at the local sale yards on Tuesday, 8th…

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The Wheat Crop. Assisted by Railway Extension

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 January 1916 · page 5

The Premier (Mr. Holman), in referring to the State wheat crop a few days ago, said that the Government should be given credit for a considerable portion of the increase,…

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Britain's Wheat Deal

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 January 1916 · page 1

London, Wednesday.—The correspondent of the "Times" in Bucharest states that the contract for the sale of 8O,000 tons of Roumanian wheat to the…

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