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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1919

1,589 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 74 of 80

Fertilise Your Maize Crops. What the Experiment Plots Tell

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

Farmers who are sowing maize crops on the North Coast just now should recall the excellent results obtained on the farmers' experiment plots last year from…

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Which Is Your Best Cow? Few Farmers Really Know

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

Official tests show that the average fanner knows far less about his individual cows than he frequently supposes, remarks an official of the New Zealand…

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Raymond Terrace Co-op. Dairy & Produce Co. Ltd

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 28 November 1919 · page 3

The thirty-third half yearly meeting of the Company was held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Wednesday afternoon. There were about 40 shareholders present, and Mr. A…

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Starving Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 4

Two big mobs of sheep from districts which have for months been in the grip of the devastating drought paused through Maitland to-day. In one lot from Quirindi…

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Compensating Farmers. Losses in Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 16

The Minister for Lands and Agriculture (Mr. Ashford) has intimated that the Government had agreed to repay the farmers for all definite loss caused through the…

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Dairy Cattle Tests. Reasonable Protection Against Tuberculosis

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 6

The Minister for Public Health (Mr. D. Storey) who recently called for reports regarding the advocacy of more general tests of dairy cattle far tuberculosis, states…

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Farmers' Choice. Wheat Poor or Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 5

Desiring to obtain a definite statement concerning the intentions of the Federal Ministry with regard to the future handling of wheat, the South Australian Farmers'…

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Wheat Commission a Contract Modified

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 4

The hearing of evidence was continued on Wednesday by the commission which is conducting an inquiry into the operations of the State Wheat Office…

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Profits on Wool. British Government's Dealings

Singleton Argus · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 6

London, Wednesday.—The "Manchester Guardian" states that the Board of Trade appointed a committee to investigate charges that the Government is…

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The Wheat Inquiry. Further Evidence. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 6

Cornelius Lane, chief inspector at the State Wheat Office, deposed that in October, 1916, he made inspections regarding the allegations about the mouse plague. He…

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State's Wheat Needs. Supplies From the Pool

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 11

After the meeting of the Australian Wheat Board conference in Melbourne on Friday, the following statement was made by the president, Senator Russell:— "The main…

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Kensington Lease. Mr. Grahame Recalled at Wheat Inquiry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 11

Mr. W. C. Grahame was recalled at the Wheat Inquiry on Friday. Mr. Watt (Wheat Office): Regarding the Kensington racecourse lease, some evidence…

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Live Stock. Malformation in Young Cattle. Some Pre-disposing Causes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 7

Photographs of some typical malformations due to "osteomalacia" in young cattle appear in the November issue of the "Agricultural Gazette" Pre-disposing causes…

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Which Is Your Best Cow? Few Farmers Really Know

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 3

Official tests show that the average farmer knows far less about his individual cows than he frequently supposes, remarks an official of the New Zealand…

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Dairying. a Lesson From Denmark. What Breeding and Testing Can Do

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 3

Denmark's dairying industry has long been regarded as a model to other lands. Not only has this ominence been well earned but from figures lately available…

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"General Principles." a Farmer's Views on Farm Economy

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 3

In a season so excessively trying for the man on the land as the present, when the soundest general principles are temporarily hustled by the urgency of…

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Fertilise Your Maize Crops. What the Experiment Plots Tell

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 3

Farmers who are sowing maize crops on the North Coast just now should recall the excellent results obtained on the farmers' experiment plots last year from…

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The Dairying Industry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 1
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The heavy milking season is now upon us, and consequently there is a great call for Dairying Utensils of all kinds. We have provided large…

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Sons of Farmers. Proposed Technical, College Course. Agricultural Society Discussion

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 29 November 1919 · page 16

At the monthly meeting of the committed of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association on Monday, [?] was given to a communication [?]…

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