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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

2,157 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 45 of 108

Dairying. Bacteria in the Butter-factory. Their Absolute Defeat is Essential

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 4

Modern food goes through involved processes of preparation before it is considered worthy of disposal in man's increasingly sensitive stomach, and the…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 June 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. 473…

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[?] of New Wool Clip. Hughes's Financial Scheme

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 6

In consequence of the rejection by graziers of the scheme of wool control submitted by the Australian Wool Council, the Prime Minister formulated other suggestions, for…

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The Wheat Position. Statement by West Australian Minister

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 3

Replying to the statement by Mr. Dyna, New South Wales Minister for Agriculture, that that State had received 3,000,000 husheis of wheat in about are months, instead…

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Local and General News. Notice to Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 4

In this issue Mr. George Grant, of Lochend, notifies that Mr. W.W. Froggatt, Government Eatomologist, will be visiting his farm at 3.30 p.m. to—morrow to enquire…

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Cowman Major. Now Back on the Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 4

A Cowman before the war, Major J.W.J. Millar, D.S.O., D.C.M., of Ball Cottage Greensted, Essex (England), has returned to be cowman to a farmer who served as a…

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Winter Schools for Farmers. Entries Close 31st May

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 4

Applications for admission to the annual Winter School for Farmers and for the special poultry farming course, to be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural…

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Past the Million. Success of State Loan. Relief to Farmers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 4
Also in The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder

In every way it is a matter for profound gratification that the State loan floated by the New South Wales Government should have been…

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Production From High Class Dairy Cows

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 4

One series of tests which were made recently of six ordinary herds gave an animal production of 1751bs butter fat per cow. (Average for Victoria is…

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Help for Farmers. Fodder for Seed Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 5

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn.) stated that in order to enable farmers to carry out seeding operations without delay, he had given special instructions to the Local…

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Argentine Wheat Legislation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 2

Reuter's Buenos Ayres correspondent reports that owing to a rise in the price of bread the Chamber of Deputies passed a bill imposing till November 30 a super tax of 4d…

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[?]Rger Wheat Crops. France and India. London, June 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 11

[?]s Paris correspondent states that [?]ts estimate that the wheat harvest with [?] 61 to 65 millions of hectolitres, ex[?] last year's production by 20 to 25…

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Butter Supplies. Price Fixing to Cease

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 9

Mr. Laird Smith, Acting Minister of Trade and Customs, informed a deputation of Queensland dairymen which waited on him, asking for an increase in the present price of butter,…

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The Wheat Pool. Financial Position

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 11

Remittances on account of account of realisations caused an unusually large reduction of £585,000 in the overdraft of the Australian Wheat Board for the week ended May 31…

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Wheat Shortage Some Mills Close

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 5

A large of the Federated Millers and Mill Employees, Union are threatened with unemployment in consequence of the wheat shortage…

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Wheat Shortage. Murrumbidgee Mill Closes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 2

The wheat position in New South Wales is illustrated by the fact that the Murrdmbidgee Milling Company's mill at Wagga has suspended operations. The mill is in…

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Wheat Supplies. Larger Quantities Expected

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. D[?] who recently returned to Sydney from [?]bourne, where he has been interesting [?] self in wheat matters, referred to the [?]…

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Wool Sales. London, June 1

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 June 1920 · page 11

The decline of from 15 to 20 per cent, in the price of merinos and from 10 to 15 per cent. in the price of crossbreds at the London, sales, following on similar declines at…

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Wheat Production. Figures for Various States

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

Victoria stands easily first amongst the States for production of wheat since the pools were initiated in 1915-16. Her total yield is not down in a statement issued by the Wheat…

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