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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 29 of 109

Wool Sales. Dull Bidding. London, April 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 5

The third series of wool sales opened to-day with approximately 50,000 bales of Australian free wool and also 16,000 submitted by the…

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Price of Butter Another Reduction Made 2/- Per Pound Retail

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 6

In the Profiteering Prevention Court on Thursday further consideration was given by Judge Beeby to the question of the price of butter…

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Wheat Pool. Nearly 50,000,000 Bushels Received

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

The accounts of the State Wheat Office to the 4th inst. show that, 16,852,302 bags, or 40,014,537 bushels, of wheat had, at that date been…

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Sales of Wheat. Prices Fixed Justified. Prime Minister Explains

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

The Prime Minister, on behalf of the Federal Government, has issued a statement in justification of its attitude towards the price of wheat for…

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Dairying. the Danger of Petty Spurge

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1921 · page 6

"He won't eat it. I don't know shy—it seems good green feed." The owner of the calf spoke resentfully; the calf regarded its owner with…

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Record Fodder Crop. Saccaline on the Manning

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

The success which has attended the growing of saccaline sorguhm on the initiation of manurial trials to…

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Dairying. the Danger of Petty Spurge

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 April 1921 · page 6

"He won't eat it. I don't Know why—it seems good green feed." The owner of the calf spoke resentfully; the calf regarded its owner with…

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Denman Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 2

Attention is directed to the alteration of date of cattle sale to be held by Higgens, Parkinson and Co., at Den man yards, from Saturday, 16th.,…

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Store Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 2

Messrs Weaver and Perry, Ltd., will, offer at the Muswellbrook yards to-day (Tuesday) 1000 head of store cattle, comprising a particularly well-bred lot…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 1

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Ltd., report:—The sales which were to have been held in Sydney this week, have- been indefinitely postponed,…

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Surplus Coastal Cattle. Menace of Asset?

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

In the Casino and Tweed-Richmond stock districts it is estimated that there is at least 50,000 head of stock more than can be carried…

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Agricultural and Pastoral for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

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

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Wheat Pool. Figures of the States

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 3

The contribution by New South for the week ended April 4 to the Wheat Board, 1920-21 pool, has been reduced to 49,014,000 bushels, the…

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Primary Producers Union Profitable Butter Production. Herd Testing Pays

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 5

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

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Wheat Sales. Statement by Mr. Dunn. "Not the Only Person Concerned."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 3

In the course of a statement regarding the sales of Australian w[?], Mr. Dunn, Minister for Agriculture, States that he was not the sole person…

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Agriculture. Important to Farmers. Free Publications Available From the Department of Agriculture

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 4

The latest list of the publications issued by the Department of Agriculture is now obtainable post free on application to the Under-Secretary…

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Dairying Better Control Wanted

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 5

From the farmer's point of view, the present state of the milk trade is most unsatisfactory, says the Albion Park correspondent to the "Daily…

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Bigger Profits for the Farmer. by Reducing Farm Production Costs

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 1

High selling prices make for carelessness and waste in production. This is true on the farm as in the factory…

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Immigration Farmers Praise of Pommies

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 April 1921 · page 2

Mr F. H. Shepherd, speaking at a meeting of Dubbo farmers, said that every encouragement should be given to immigration. It was largely the…

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Pastoral Industry. Menace of Shorter Hours. Evidence Before 44 Hours' Inquiry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 2

Judge Beeby continued his inquiry into the application of the Suddlers, Tanners. Wool, and Basil Workers' Unions for a 44 hours week in their…

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