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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 109

Sydney Wool Sales. 4964 Bales Offered

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 3

At the wool sales yesterday 4964 bales were offered. There was a fairly good selection offered, but many faulty lots were in evidence…

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Dairymen's Difficulties. Advantage of Condenseries

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 2

With reference to a press statement of only three mornings milkings iron the Iliawarra district finding its way…

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Farmers and the Profiteering Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1921 · page 4

Addressing a large and enthusiastic meeting at Nundah lask evening Mr. W. F. O' Hoarn, M. L. A. said that he had been asked by some farmers…

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Wool Sales. Official Statement. London, January 31

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 5

Sir Arthur Goldfinch, Director of Raw Materials, says that the Colonial Wool Association must insist that at least two-thirds of the wool offered in London…

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Profiteering Prosecution the Price of Sheep's Tongues. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 2

In the Profiteering Court to-day, before Judge Beeby, the Cambridge Delicacies Company, Pitt-street, pleaded guilty to having sought to obtain 2/11…

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The Wheat Harvest Pouring Into Sydney. (By. Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 2

Nearly 1600 trucks are now being used by the Railway Department to convey wheat from all parts of the State to Darling Harbour. The golden grain is…

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Commercial. Farmers' Produce Markets. Sussex-street Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 4

Not much business was transacted in Sussex-street this morning. Agents state that things were quieter than for some time past. Clarence River…

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Farmers Estate

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 5

The estate of the late John Frape, of Millthorpe, farmer, has been valued for probate at £57,886…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 February 1921 · page 4

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

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Wheat Guarantee

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture, speaking at Gulgong, said it was certain that arrangements would be arrived at by which the Government could fulfill its…

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Wool Market. Wool Sales Resumed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 1

The Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd. report, 3rd February 1920: Monday's auctions provided the reopening of the selling season after the…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 1

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report 2nd February:—The interest of the trade is now largely centred in the opening of the first sales of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 2

New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report, February 2nd 1921:—Wool selling was resumed in the Sydney market on Monday, 31st ultimo…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 4

These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Honorable the Minister for Agriculture and are based mainly on the…

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Sale of Raworth Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 4

Mr. J. P. Idstein reports:—Two luscene and dairy farms at Raworth, near Morpeth, were recently disposed of by private, treaty, on account of…

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The Fruit Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 4

Mr. L. J. Smith, who has just visited Gesforth, states that there is an excellent grape crop, in that district, it being the best for some years. The…

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The Case for the Country. How Sydney Has Expanded at the Country's Expense. The Decline of Agriculture. The Slump in Dairying

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 4 February 1921 · page 4

The war excepted, the most arresting fact in the letter-day history of New South Wales, the decline of the rural industries, and hence of the rural population…

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Butter Prospects and Prices

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 3

The Imperial Government contract for the absorption of New South Wales surplus, runs out on March 31, and there is considerable, speculation in the…

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Dairying. Milk Records Their Effect on Dairy Cattle Values

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 5

In recent years says a writer in the Scottish Journal of Agriculture milk recording in Scotland has had a…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1921 · page 3

These NOtes are Issued every week, under the personal superviosion of the MInister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experince of the Department…

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