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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1920

2,157 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 54 of 108

Miscellaneous. the Problem of the Boy How to Convince Him Farming Is Worth While

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 July 1920 · page 11

"How to Keep Your Boy on the Farm" is a heading of perennial interest in American farm journals, and the solutions offered are many and varied. The question is one with an…

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Necessitous Farmers Government Relief

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 July 1920 · page 4

The Minister or Agriculture has supplied a statement showing the extensive measures of relief granted to necessitous farmers through the Rural Industries…

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Wheat Board. Overdraft of £4,399,000

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 July 1920 · page 6

The Australia Wheat Board an June 28, had a total overdraft of £4,399,000 compared with £3,248,000 a week earlier. The credit balance of New South Wales…

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Profit Sharing on the Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 July 1920 · page 2

Mr. M. H. Peake, of High Lexsley Farm, Dunsfold, (Surrey) the owner of a holding covering some 400 acres, chiefly grassland, adopted a system of profit-sharing with his…

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Crops at Cairns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 July 1920 · page 3

According to advices from Queensland, the crop of sugar cane in the Cairns district is exceptionally good, and is expected to permit of crushing earlier that was…

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High-priced Farm Lands

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 July 1920 · page 4

A record price, was realised for the 26-acre farm, Austral Eden, on the Macleay River. which was sold for £ 134/12/6 per acre. it is first-class alluvial soil, with river frontage…

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Farmers Product Markets. Sussex-street Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 July 1920 · page 4

Quotations in Sussex-street to-day were Maize 7/9 to 9/ per bushed; onions. £14 to £14/10/ per ton; potatoes, £17 per ton…

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Imported Stud Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 4

Mr. T. J. Abbott has just landed another draft of fifty head of pure-bred cattle. These comprise, five pure Hereford bulls, bred by the late John Taylor, of Winton, Campbell Town…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 4

The Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd., report 1st July :—The Australian Wool Council, consisting of delegates from the National…

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Agriculture. the Need of Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 4

As a cattle raising district Muswellbrook will compare favourably with any part of the Commonwealth, and for horsebreeding is known to have…

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The Wool Clip Growers Tree to Export

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 2

Inquiries during the week-end cleared up one matter about which some doubt remained after the statement made on Friday by the Prime Minister (Mr…

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£4,000,000 Worth of Wool Dividends in Bonds

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 2

Winchcombe, CarsOn, Ltd., report:—The copious rains recorded recall the fact that after the floods in the Darling River country in the early…

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High-priced Farm Land

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 4

A twelve-acre farm on the Bolwarra flats has been sold at the rate of £125 per acre. It was the property of Mrs. F. Cooper, and the purchaser is Mr. S. Parish, Originally…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 6 July 1920 · page 1

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

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Sheep Losses. Narrabri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1920 · page 7

The Sydney mail train reached here this morning, carrying a large quantity of mails and passengers. Washaways and damaged bridges had been temporarily repaired by…

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Australian Wool Government's Negotiations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1920 · page 5

The authorities consider that Mr. Hughes is climbing down in his attitude on the wool question and will accept terms that he rejected in the first instance. It is stated…

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Poultry Feed. Harms a Substitute for Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1920 · page 3

The State Wheat Office announces that supplies of chickwheat having become exhausted the Minister for Agriculture had purchased in Melbourne a quantity of…

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Trade with Japan. Wool Trade Goes to South Africa

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1920 · page 7

The Commercial Commissioner for New South Wales in the East states in a dispatch to the Premier that the trade figures for the three months ended March 31 were…

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Sale of Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1920 · page 4

Messrs Swan, Murray, and Hain report having sold at Nelson's Plains property in the estate of the late Mr. A. Perrett It Consisted of 44 acres of farm land and…

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Branxton Dairy Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1920 · page 4

The annual general meeting of shareholder in the Branxton Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd. will be held in the School of Arst Branxton on Saturday 24th…

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