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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

1,589 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 80

Bega Flooded. Farmers' Heavy Losses

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 6

Messages from Bega state that the district has experienced its record flood. From Monday till Saturday last week. 28 inches, 72 points of rain…

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Success in Dairying

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 2

The desire to be successful naturally appeals to everybody in allfields of activity and enterprise, and stimulates everybody to put forward…

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Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 4

It is notified by Mr. R. Blacket secretary of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Ltd., that Mr. W. Smith, of Swan Reach, Hinton, has been elected to the…

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Big Potato Crops with Electroculture

Singleton Argus · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 4

Striking experiments in electroculture were carried out by the South. Wales Electrical Power Distributing Company, during 1917 and 1018 on a…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Main on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal [?] of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture [?] based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 409. Agricultural. Seed Potatoes. Select Them on Performances

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 March 1919 · page 4

A number of recent enquiries from North Coast farmers touch the subject of the selection and storage of seed potatoes, and Die Chief Inspector of…

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Australian Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 3

A frank admission of the reason why America does not want Austraian wheat at present is made in the semi-monthly letter of the Guaranty Trust Co., of New York…

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Shipment of Wheat. Shortage of Tonnage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 6

Senator Russell, Action Minister for the Navy, has been informed through the British Wheat Commission of the Food Controller's recent announcement regarding the…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 March 1919 · page 4

The Raymond Terrace Co-op. Dairy and Produce Co., Ltd., factory report for month of February shows that the quantity of butter manufactured during the…

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Gloucester District Co-op. Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 11 March 1919 · page 3

The thirty-fifth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the above was held at the factory, at Stroud Road, on Friday, Feb. 28th. The Directors…

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Wool Appraisements. Prices Under the Scheme

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 11 March 1919 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report: —The amended roster provides for the offering of 115,000 bales of wool in Sydney between February 26th and…

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A Farmer's Bets. Two Men Committed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 March 1919 · page 4

The case in which David M'Gavin (36) clerk, and Charles Michel (36), cutter, were charged with conspiring to defraud George Percy Cobbledick of large sums of money, was concluded…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 March 1919 · page 1

The following applications for patents connected with the Farming and Pastoral Industries have been lodged at the Commonwealth Patent Office:—…

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Wool, Wheat and Gold. Wheat 40,000,000 Bushels Short

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1919 · page 4

The estimated total yield of the Com monwealth wheat harvest in 1918-19 is 40,000,000 bushels short of the yield for 1917-18. With the exception of West…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 12 March 1919 · page 4

Dairymen in the Paterson district are notified by advertisement in this issue that the Bow-thorne Co-operative Butter Factory's launch will leave Paterson wharf daily on and after…

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Outbreak Among Sheep

Singleton Argus · Thursday 13 March 1919 · page 2

London, Monday.—County inspectors report an outbreak of influenza among several flocks of sheep in Westmoreland…

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Butter Box Material

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 3

The conservation of supplies of hoop pine for use in the butter industry was the subject of a discussion at the quarterly meeting of the Executive of the Primary…

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Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, reports : Our appraisement No. 55 will not be concluded until after…

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Avon and Barrington Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 6

At the annual meeting of the Avon and Barrington Co-operative Butter Factory the directors' report and balance sheet was read and adopted…

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A Test for Damaged Wheat

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 4

It has been discovered that an effective indication of the contamination or deterioration of wheat is afforded by the ammonium content of the extract…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 14 March 1919 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervisio[?] of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture. [?] based mainly on the experience of the Department No. 409…

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