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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 109

Disappointing. New Zealand Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 7

The Dunedin wool sales, which were postponed for three weeks, owing to the waterside hold-up, began on Tuesday. Prices were disappointing, and 10 per…

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Wool Trade. Government Control Criticised. London, March 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 5

The Government's policy of withholding wool from the market, thus inflating prices, is criticised in an addendum to the report of the sub-committee…

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Muswellbrook Show. Increased Entry Good Displays of Horses' and Cattle. MUSWELLBROOK

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1921 · page 2

The cattle and produce sections of the Muswellbrook Show, which opened yesterday, illustrated, when compared with last year's displays, what an…

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Butter Pool

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 3

The Minister for Customs, Mr Massy Greene, returned from Sydney on Saturday where the attended a conference respecting the disposal of butter supplies, stated that…

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Butter Trade Outlook

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 8

The Butter Pool Committee has formulated a scheme for equalisation of prices during the remainder of March and for this period butter business will…

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Cost of Butter Production

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 3

Mr. H. P. Dunlop, General Secretary, Primary Producers' Union, commenting on the inquiry now being held by the Board of Trade…

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The Cost of Butter Production

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 2

Mr. P. Du[?]lop, General Secretary, Primary Producers' Union, commenting on the inquiry being held by the Board of Trade into the cost of production of dairy…

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Butter Industry. Average Production Per Cow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 6

Giving evidence at the inquiry into the cost of the production of milk, butter and cheese, Alfred James Kent, investigating accountant of the Profiteer…

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Dairying. Vary the Pasture

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 2

Progressive coastal farmers are beginning to see the wisdom of sowing suitable grasses and clovers with a view to providing a change from…

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Mammoth Farm Undertaking

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 4

America is a place of big things but even Americans might well be stirred by the story of the work on what is called "The Biggest Farm in the…

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High Priced Farm Land

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 3

Lucerne and dairying blocks on the Paterson River (Wallalong Estate) brought big prices at an auction sale on Saturday. One block comprising…

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Two Wives for Farmers a Colorado Proposal

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 18 March 1921 · page 8

Governor Shoup has been asked by a farmer named George Smith to include in his message to the Colorado Legislature a proposal that farmers be…

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Wheat Board

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1921 · page 8

The credit balance of the Australian Wheat Board at the banks was reduced from £1,281.000 to £178,000 in the week ended March 7…

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Second Wheat Payment

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 March 1921 · page 6

Farmers view with pleasure the Wheat Board's intention to make the second payment in connection with the Wheat guarantee available on…

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The Cost of Butter Production

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 March 1921 · page 1

Mr M. P. Dunlop, General Secretary, Primary Producers' Union, commenting on the inquiry being held by the Board of Trade into the cost of production of…

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Butter Control. Primary Producers' Decision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1921 · page 2

On the recommendation of the butter section committee, the Primary Producers' Association resolved that in any scheme for the equalisation of butter…

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Cattle Crisis. Position in Britain

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1921 · page 13

The livestock of this country was never in greater danger than it is today (Mr. Frank Longworth recently wrote in London "Daily Mail"). Dis…

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Milk and Butter Fat a Notable Shorthorn

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 March 1921 · page 3

The dairy branch of the Department of Agriculture has supplied the results of the pure-bred cows whose tests of milk and butter fat yields were…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 March 1921 · page 3

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal superivi[?] of the Minister of Agriculture, and are [?] mainly on the experience of the Department…

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Milling Position. Wheat Board Blamed for Crisis

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1921 · page 12

Mr. G. G. Downs (secretary of the Federal Council of Flour Mill Owners of Australia), referring to the statement made by Senator Russell on…

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