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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 32 of 109

Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 April 1921 · page 1

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

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Wheat Prices Advance. Vancouver, April 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 April 1921 · page 5

A message from Chicago says that wheat prices advanced 5 cents on receipt of the news of the storm damage. A wild scramble to buy occurred on…

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Wheat Pool Advances. Payments by Settlers. Minister's Appeal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 April 1921 · page 6

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Loughlin) is especially pleased at the way the settles under the Closer Settlement Acts, including many returned…

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Victorian Butter Supplies

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 5

The production of butter in Victoria is falling away considerably and Melbourne merchants have been compelled to purchase supplies from New South…

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Butter Position Stabilised

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 2

Mr. Scott, Publicity, Officer P.P.U. writes, as follows:— New South Wales and Queensland have evolved a scheme of pooling and…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited, report 20th April, 1921:—No arrangements have yet made for the resumption of auctions…

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Saving the Farmers' Money

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 April 1921 · page 3

New South Wales has again led the Commonwealth. The first grain ship, with the wheat shipped by bulk handling process has left Sydney…

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Payments to Cease. Imperial Government's Butter Contract

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 9

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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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 3

Thes Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervisiers of the Minister of Agriculture, and are [?] [?] on the experi[?] of the Department…

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Wheat Prices Advance. Vancouver, April 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 3

A message from Chicago says that wheat prices advanced 5 cents on receipt of the news of the storm damage. [?] wild scramble to buy occurred on…

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A Big Overdraft. Payments to Wheat Growers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 16

Payments made to wheat-growers on account of the second dividend on the 1920-21 crop accounted for a radical change in the banking…

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American Wheat. Market Advances. Vancouver April 15

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 13

message from Chicago reports a sharp advance in the wheat [?]et followed the renewed hopes of [?]ing the British strike…

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Wheat Pool Advances. Payments by Settlers. Minister's Appeal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 8

The Minister for Lands (Mr. Loughlin) is especially pleased at the way the settlers ander the Closer Settlement Acts, including many returned…

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Poultry. Profitable Duck-farming. Cheap Food Supply a Prime Necessity

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 3

Way back in the timoes of cheap pollard and bran, when meat offal was plentiful and finally obtained, and when the tallow skimmed from the boiling…

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Dairying. the Virtue of Boiling Water. Wholesome Milk Depends on Its Extensive Use

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 3

The wholesomeness of milk has been found by practical experience to depend largely on boiling water or steam being used to scald utensils and…

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To Work Up a Dairy Herd

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 3

To work up a dairy herd, writes the Herdmaster of the Department of Agriculture, the best method is to breed from the average [?], using a…

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Dairying Requisites

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 2

Our various lines of Dairying requisities are, as will naturally be expected, most comprehensive and up-to date. The quality and price…

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Queensland's Cotton Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 4

A comparatively large cotton crop is assured in Queensland, this season, and already good supplies are being received by the Department of…

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Wallalong Estate Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 4

Mr. E. W. Sparke reports that there has been a good enquiry for the Wallalong Estate farms. During the past week he has sold direct, and in…

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Railway Fatality. Farmer Killed at Oakhampton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 April 1921 · page 5

Mr. Jeremiah Sheeley, a resident of Oakhampton, was killed this morning on the North Coast Railway by a special picnic train proceeding to…

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