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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 109

The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report under date, 6th April 1921.—It was anticipated that selling would…

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Price of Butter. Reduced From Yesterday

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 2

The long awaited fall in the price of butter in New South Wales took effect yesterday morning, when all grades were reduced 2d per lb…

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Wheat for Germany. Statement by Minister

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 6

At the A.L.P. Conference on Tuesday, Mr. Dunn, Minister for Agriculture, dealt with allegations that had been made regarding the…

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The Meat Market. Big Slump in Cattle. Homebush Markets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 3

Cttle prices at Homebush on Thursday were the lowest for years. Good useful trade beef sold as low as 35/ per 100lb. The market showed a decline…

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The Stoppage of Wool Sales Reason of Postponeent

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 April 1921 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., write:—Wool sales, which were arranged for this week in Sydney, were postponed owing to the fact that the…

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Butter Control

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 11

By 75 votes to 33 representatives of dairying interests in Victoria declared against further Government control of butter, and in favour of an open…

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Big Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 2

Weaver and Perry Ltd. will hold a big sale of store cattle at Che local saleyards on Tuesday next, 12th. instant, when 1000 head will be yarded,…

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Butter Pool in Force

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 4

The Queensland-New South Wales Butter Pool Committee on Thursday afternoon expressed its appreciation of the full endorsement given by Judge Beeby…

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Butter Pool. Trade Gives Support

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 3

Members of the Queensland New South Wales Butter Pool Committee met the Sydney representative of the trade in conference on Friday…

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Cattle Disease Outbreak in Queensland

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 6

A disease, new to Queensland and of French origin, known as petechel fever, has broken out among stock the central west, about Jericho and Yalleroi…

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Dairying. the Caee of Cream. Some Factors in the Production of Choicest Butter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 3

Separate milk at blood heat as soon as you can after milking, writes the Dairy Expert of the Department of Agriculture, in a recent pamphlet on…

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Profitable Butter Production Herd Testing Pays

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 6

The Publicity Officer (Mr J. M. Scott), of the Primary Producers' Union, writing on the 4th inst., gives some interesting facts on herd testing, and…

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Wheat Sales Purchases by Germany

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 6

Mr Tudor (leader of the Labour Opposition) asked the Prime Minister in the House of Representatives on Wednesday if it were a fact that the Wheat…

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Lucerne for Wheat Farmers. King of Fodders Proves the Hospitality of the West

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 3

Experience is showing that the western districts are more hospitable to the growth of lucerne than was once thought. Generally speaking, about…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 3

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

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Wheat Brokers. Secure Verdict for £5000

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 7

The heating was concluded in No. 4 Court, Sydney, before Mr. Justice Wade, of the action in which De Lauret and Co., Ltd., stock and…

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Wheat Guarantee. Second Payment on

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 9

Payment of the second advance of 2/6 a bushed on the 1920-21 wheat crop will be made to wheatgrowers of Australia on April 4, and this payment…

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Wheat Finance. Credit of £326,000

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 9

The Australian Wheat Board, on March 21, had a credit balance or £320,000, a fairly substantial alteration in the financial position since March…

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Next Season's Wheat Continuance of Pool Desired

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 7

A deputation representing the Fede-ral Farmers' Organisations, embracing the Country parties in the Commonwealth and State Parliaments, urged…

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Price of Butter. Reduced From To-day. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 8

The long awaited fall in the price of butter in New South Wales took effect this morning, when all grades were reduced 2d per 1b. wholesale,…

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