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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1918

1,370 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 4 of 69

Local and General News. Cessnock Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

Messrs. Kempe and Co., in conjunction with John Hogan and Co., will offer at auction, at their yards, Wollombi Road, adjoining O'Neill's wineshop, on Friday next, 100…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · 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. 350…

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Stock or Wheat? Move by Cabinet. Producers to Meet

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

The New South Wales Cabinet on Thursday approved of a scheme submitted by Mr. Ashford (Minister for Lands), for the expansion of the…

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15 Millions for Wheat. First Instalment Payable on Monday. Ominous Outlook for 1918. MELBOURNE

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 1

Sir John Forrest (Treasurer), after a conference to-day with the Governor of the Commonwealth Bank, announced that the…

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Live Stock. Barbed Wise Cuts. Some Suggestions for Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 4

Unsightly scars, the results of barbed wire cuts, materially depreciate the value of colts and horses when the time comes for them to bo sold. These scars…

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Live Stock. Barbed Wire Cuts. Some Suggestions for Farmers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 January 1918 · page 6

Unsightly scars, the results of barbed wire cuts, materially depreciate the value of colts and horses when the time comes for them to be sold. These scars…

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Cattle Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

Attention is directed to cattle sales to be conducted at the local saleyards on Tuesday next, by Messrs. Higgens, Parkiinson & Co., who will…

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Tamworth Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

As will be seen in our advertising columns, Garvin & Cousens Ltd, are offering 1700 cattle at Tamworth on Friday 25th instant, commencing at…

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Great Victoria Desert. Pastoral Prospects

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

On the school maps of 20 years ago, some of which are still in circulation, the country lying north of Eucla and on either side of the boundary between South Australia and…

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New South Wales Butter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 1

The Premier's attention having been invited to a proposal to pool Australian butter in the United Kingdom with other imported butter, Mr…

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Glen Innes Cattle and Horse Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

Dalgety and Co., Ltd. (Sydney), and Mr. E. A., Small (Glen Innes) in conjunction will offer at auction at the Glen Innes yards on Wednesday, 23rd inst., 1500 head of store…

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Agricultural. Cost in Wheat Production

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 9

The labour cost on a wheat farm is much more easily ascertained than the horse cost, say the writers of the article referred to last week. The single provision is that when the…

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Stock Raising or Wheat. State Minister's Proposals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4

The suggestion pat forward by Mr, Ashford, State Minister for Lands, in the direction of encouraging growers to substitute of some exlent Nock-raising for wheat…

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Wheat in Mesopotamia. Victorian Harvesters to Be Despatched

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 7

Since the British occupation largo, wheat crops have been planted in Mesopotamia under, the direction of the Indian Government and the harvesting of this will commence in…

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Muswellbrook Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 2

A special general meeting of shareholders of the abovenamed company has been convened for Wednesday next, at 11 a.m., at the School of…

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Live Stock. Barbed Wire Cuts. Some Suggestions for Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 4
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

Unsightly scars, the results of barbed wire cuts, materially depreciate the value of colts and horses when the time comes for them to be sold. These scars…

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The Farm Girls. Turning England Into Food

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 9

What they were before the war I do not knew. They belonged, one imagines, to the great company of prettily dressed, pleasant girls who through all our cities, drifting from…

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The Dairy Industry. Aim of the Commonwealth

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 January 1918 · page 13

Supervision of the export of all dairy products from Australia has been taken over by the Commonwealth Government and Mr Wigan, late of the New South Wales…

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