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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

2,157 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 108

Financing the Farmer. What the Labor Party Will Do. Mr. John Storey Explains

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 February 1920 · page 2

The needs of the farmer in the matter of credit are different in one vital particular from the needs of the ordinary commercial trader…

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Large Butter Supplies

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

Large supplies of butter were received in the Sussex-street wholesale markets on Monday. Arrivals were the heaviest since last March. The increase in output was…

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Butter Prices. (To the Editor.)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 4

Sir,—Recent issues of the country press throughout the dairying districts of the State naturally have some reference to the recent fall in the price of…

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Wheat Shortage. Grievance Against Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 5

Mr. Burton, Cabinet Minister, replying to a deputation of millers, detailed the Government's representations to Mr. Hughes, with a view to obtaining Australian wheat…

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Sale of Miller's Forest Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 4

Mr. R. A. Elin reports having held a very successful sale of Miller's Forest property on Wednesday last. The first farm offered by auction, on account of the estate of the…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 February 1920 · page 2

The following applications for patents connected with the farming and pastoral industries have been lodged at the Commonwealth Patent Office:—…

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Butter Prices

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 3

Mr. C. J. McRae, President of the P. P. U, writes:— Sir,—Recent issues of the country press throughout the dairying districts of the…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 1

The New Zealand Loan and Meriantile Agency Co., Ltd., report 4th February: Appraisements have been resumed in Sydney during the week…

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Wheat Pool. Compulsion Against Government Policy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 7

A deputation, representing the Australian Wheat Farmers' Conference, urged Mr. Hughes, Prime Minister, to agree to the formation of a compulsory wheat pool…

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Primary Producers Union Butter Prices To the Editor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 3

Sir,—Recent issues of the country press throughout the dairying districts of the State naturally have some reference to the recent fall in…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man of the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 455…

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Butter and Bacon Employees. Notice of Intention to Strike

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 3

It is announced by Mr. Thompson, secretary of the Meat Preserving and Cold Storage Employees' Union, that it has been decided by the butter and bacon factory…

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Live Stock. Tuberculosis in Cattle. Symptoms and Preventive Measures

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 4

A valuable series of leafi[?] under the general heading "Diseases of Animals" is in process of compilation by the Veterinary Officers of the Stock…

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"Political Dead Beats." Bathurst Farmers and Settler Discussion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 6

At the monthly meeting of the Bathurst branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, the question of politicians seceding from the Nationalists and joining the…

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Farmers & Graziers' Coy. Remarkable Growth. Triumph of Co-operation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 3

The Secretary of the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance and Agency Co., Limited, writes:—The completion, at the end…

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Financing the Farmer. What the Labor Party Will Do. Mr. John Storey Explains

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 February 1920 · page 3
Also in The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder

The needs of the farmer in the matter of credit are different in one vital particular from the needs of the ordinary commercial trader…

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Price of Butter. Dairymen Resent Reduction

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1920 · page 14

The Premier (Mr. W. A. Holman) [?] terviewed by Messrs. Perry and [?] Ms. L.A., concerning the recent lowe[?] the price of butter by 2d a pound, and…

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Cattle Sale at Tenterfield

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 February 1920 · page 4

Special attention is directed to the advertisement appearing in to-day's issue of a big cattle sale which Cotton Bros, are holding at Tenterfield on…

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British Wool Profits

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 February 1920 · page 11

Mr. H. J. Mackinder, M.P., upon being interviewed, said that if the Government doss not disclose the full details of wool profi[?] the public should demand a Royal…

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