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Farming & the land, 1920

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 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. 456…

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Challenge Accepted. Georgeson's State of Health. Wheat for Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 7

Mr. Holman, State Premier, has taken up the challenge made by Mr. John Storey for an independent medical examination of Mr. Georgeson, whose state of health…

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High-priced Farm Land

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

One of the best farms at Glenarvon adjoining what is known as the Bolwarra Flats, has just changed hands at a price that is probably a record for the locality…

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Miscellaneous Shelter Trees for Farms. a Canadian Scheme

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

The "Agricultural Gazette of Can[?] for October gives an outline of the system under which the settlors of the prairies of Manitoba, Saskatchewan,…

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A Big Crop

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 13 February 1920 · page 4

The greatest crop of weeds ever seen in the district were this week cut down in Mr. John Doyle's paddock at the rear of the Commercial Bank. The…

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Muswellbkook Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 2

Rupert Beale & Co. report:—At our sale of cattle held at the Muswellbrook saleyards on Tuesday, the 10th inst, we yarded a fair number…

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Seed Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 2

Messrs Rupert Beale & Co are in receipt of the following letter from the Rural Industries Board, under date 9th February:—Dear Sirs,— I…

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Wheat Pool. Compulsion Against Government Policy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 9

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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The Wheat Cases. Alleged Conspiracy. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 11

Seven men, named Reginald Rheuben, John Brunton, Edward Sheedy, Selby Churchill, Rupert Coombes, Thomas Smith, and William Robinson, were before the…

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London Wool Sales. Best Grades Sell Freely

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 6

The chairman of the Central Wool Committee has received the following cable from London:— Sales opened February 9. United States…

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The 1920-21 Wool Clip. (To the Editor)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 12

Sir,-The disposal of our next season's wool clip is probably the biggest economic question confronting Australia at the present moment. The "wool money" is the…

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Wool Spinners Profits. Profiteering Unchecked. London, Feb. 6

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 11

The report of the Profiteering Act Committee on wool-spinners' profits has been issued by the Board of Trade. It shows that enormous profits were made by the…

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BUTTER 5s 6d Per Lb. England's H.C.L. LONDON, Feb. 6

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 2

The index figure of the cost of living is now 136 per cent, above tho pro-war standard despite the bread subsidy of £50,000,000…

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"Political Dead Beats." Bathurst Farmers and Settlers Discussion

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 9

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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Dairy Company. Annual Meeting. Singleton

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 February 1920 · page 5

The twentieth annual meeting of shareholders of the above was held on Saturday in the Co-operative Society's saleroom. Mr. David Faulkner, chairman of directors…

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Wheat Board. Large Oversea Payments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 6

Large payments were made to the Australian Wheat Board on account of oversea and local sales during the week ended February 9…

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Export of Butter. Statement by the Minister

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 February 1920 · page 3

Replying to representations from a meeting of dairymen held in Lismore, Mr. Massy Greene Minister for Customs, states the Government will not entertain any proposal for…

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Land and Cattle Sale

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 2

Attention is directed to an advertisement in a recent issue of a big land and cattle sale at Gloucester on 3rd March. On that day the whole…

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Extra Wool Offerings. Top Makers' Profits Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 February 1920 · page 1

In order to expedite the appraisements of the present wool clip an additional appraisement has been arranged for March Poster…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 18 February 1920 · page 5

These Notes are issued a very week, under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department…

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