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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

1,589 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 80

Wool Market. Sydney Wool Offerings. Blocking German Wool Trade

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write : —Wool appraisements continue with out interruption in Sydney. We offered a catalogue of 7200 bales last…

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Sale of State Cattle. Average Price, 57 Guineas

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 2

At the sale Wednesday," of purebred Guernsey cattle at the Wollongbar State Farm over £1000 worth were sold. [?]ormales averaged 50 1/2 guineas, and the whole of the cattle averaged…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 4

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal e[?]pervision of the Hon. W. O. Grahame, M.L.A. Minister of Agriculture, [?] are [?] mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 407…

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Agricultural. "Take-all." The Wheat-Growers' Worst Enemy

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 4

For some years the Plant Brooder of the Department of Agriculture has observed the prevalence of "take-all" in the wheat breeding plots at Cow[?]…

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The Orchard. to Maintain Soil Fertility. Green Manuring Crops

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 February 1919 · page 4

The maintenance of fertility, notwithstanding the loss of plant food that results from constant cropping, is one of the problems that confront every…

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Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 8

Suggested matters to be discussed at a General Conference on the Wheat Question, to be held at Harden Tuesday, March 11th., at 9 a.m. This…

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Price of Butter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 2

With regard to the request of the Aberdeen Branch of the Primary Producers Union that application be made for an increase in the price of…

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Big Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 2

Messrs, Donoghue arid Stevenson and Albert. Knight, auctioneers in conjunction, will hold an important cattle sale at Amosfield, Tenterfield district, on…

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Sydney Wool Offerings. Blocking German Wool Trade

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. write: Wool appraisements continue without interruption in Sydney. We offered a catalogue of 7200 bales last week…

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Pastoral. Spread of the Prickly Pear

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 10

When prickly pear plants once become well established they produce an enormous number of fruits that contain a dark purple pulp[?]of a sub acid flavour than is not at all…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory. Half-yearly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 6

The Lwenty-fourth half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Limited, was held in the company's office, Morpeth, yesterday…

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Shortage of Butter. Supplies to be Commandeered

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 6

Supplies of butter held in stock in the State are to be commandeered. The Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee has been devoting…

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Primary Producesr' Union. the Price of Butter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 7

The annual meeting of the District Council of the Huntar River branch of the Primary Producers' Union was held in Singleton on Tuesday…

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The Wheat Industry. (To the Editor)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 3

Sir,—In view of the uncertain' attitude taken up by farmers and others with regard to the future of wheat, I think it well to endeavour to dispel the…

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New Varieties of Wheat. How They Behaved This Season

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 4

One of the features of this season's work on the Plant Breeder's plots at Cowra has been the success of youth African varieties of wheat under test…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. 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. 408. Pastoral. the Spread of the Prickly Pear. How Birds and Animals Help

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 4

When prickly pear plants once become well established they produce an enormous number of fruits that contain a dark purple pulp of a sub-acid flavor that is…

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Experience with Farm Tractors. What Farmers Said

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 March 1919 · page 4

The extent to which mechanical power displaces horse power on farms where it is tried is a question that has aroused much discussion in America, and…

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Pastoral

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 7

SPREAD OF THE PRICKY PEAR. When prickly pear plants once become well established they produce an enermous number oif fruits that contain a dark purple…

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Wool Tops Dispute. Commonwealth Issues Writ

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 7

A writ has been issued by Mr. G. Castle Crown Solicitor of the Commonwealth, at the instance of the Commonwealth Government and the Contral Wool Committee against the Colonial Combling…

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Wheat Prices in U.S.A. VANCOUVER

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 March 1919 · page 8

The Administration [?] appropriating £200,000 to fulfil the Government guaraniee for wheat prices for the 1919 crop, has passed the Senate…

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