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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 30 of 109

Primary Producers' Union. Butter Position Stabilised Up To, 30th September Next

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 3

The above union reports that New South Wales and Queensland have evolved a scheme of pooling and controlling butter to the 30th September…

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Wool Trade. Excessive Stocks. Critical Situation. LONDON, April 12

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 April 1921 · page 5

Unless arrangements are made to hold wool, its value in Australasia will disappear," said Sir Austin Goldfinch, Directors of Raw Materials, on being…

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Wheat Losses Heavy Compensation. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 April 1921 · page 2

The report of the Wheat Compensation Board recommends compensation to represent wheat losses of £549,214,…

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Wheat Sales to Germany Minister Defends His Position

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 April 1921 · page 4

Mr Dunn, the.- Minister for Agriculture, referring to the criticisms regarding the sale of wheat to Germany, stated that he was only one of the members…

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Wheat Pool. the 1916-17 Losses. Total of Half a Million

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1921 · page 6

The report of the Wheat Pool Compensation Board (Messrs. R. S. Drummend, A. S. Back, Robert A. Gemmell. and D. A. Gogie set up by…

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Primary Producers' Union. Co-operative Marketing of Farm Products

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1921 · page 2

Mr. J. S. Scott, publicity officer of the P.P.U., writes:—The Primary Producers' Union is keenly alive to the interests of all sections of primary…

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Bathurst Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 April 1921 · page 5

The annual report of the Bathurst branch of the Farmers and Settlers Association declared that farmers have swallowed the dope of other political…

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Payments to Cease. Imperial Government's Butter Contract

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 4

The Secretary of the Commonwealth Dairy Produce Pool Committee stated that a cable message from the Board of Trade, London, had been received by…

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Commercial News. Homebush Sales. Cheapest Cattle for Years

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 April 1921 · page 3

THE cattle yarded numbered 3540. The general quality was fair, but not equal to the offering of the last two or three sale days. The usual buyers were…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 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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Scone Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 2

Attention is directed to the special cattle sale to be held at Scone yards on Friday next, 22nd. inst., by the New Ztalnnd L. and M. A. Co. Ltd…

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Butter Pool. Trade Gives Support

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 14

Members of the Queensland [?] South Wales Butter Pool C[?] met the Sydney representatives of [?] trade in conference on Friday…

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Nature Study with Wheat. a Pamphlet Designed for Farmer Junior

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 3

Whatever he touches, the American is persistently "different." In Zune Grey's "The Desert of Wheat," the hero weighs in with a two-page extract…

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The Meat Market. Big Slump in Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 9

Cattle prices at Homebush last week were the lowest for years. Good useful trade beef sold as tow as 35/ per 100lb. The market showed a decline…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 3

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal [?] of the [?] of Agricultre, and are based [?] on the [?] fo experiance of the Department…

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Wheat Brokers. Secure Verdict for £5000

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 14

The hearing 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 Pool. Figures of the States

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 7

The contribution by New South Wales 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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Next Season's Wheat Continuance of Pool, Desired

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 14

A deputation representing the Federal Farmers' Organisations, embracing the Country parties in the Commonwealth and State Parliaments. urged…

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Wool Sales. Dull Bidding. London. April 6

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 12

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

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Wool Trade. Excessive Stocks. Critical Situation. LONDON, April 12

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 April 1921 · page 2

Unless arrangements are made to hold wool, its value in Australasia will disappear," said Sir. Austin Goldfinch, Director of Raw Materials, on being…

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