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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 109

Wheat Yields Bathurst Experiment Farm

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 April 1921 · page 2

The results of last season's cropping on the Bathurst Experiment Farm are now available. The wheat yields ranged from 20 bushels per acre up to 42…

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Wheat Losses. Cabinet and Compensation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 April 1921 · page 3

Consideration was given yesterday by the State Cabinet to the report of the committee which recommended the payment of about £500,000 to…

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Wool Trade Danger of Complete Collapse

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 April 1921 · page 2

The serious position of the wool trade and the danger of a complete collapse of the market were considered by the Federal Cabinet on Tuesday. It is…

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Dairy Produce

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 April 1921 · page 2

Butter, hand-made, P. H. Throsby, 1; A. J. Searl, 2. Box of butter, suitable for export, Glucester District Co-operative Factory, 1; Dungog…

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Butter Outlook

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 2

The Secretary of the P.P.U. writes: The butter position is prominently in the eye of the producers at the moment and to many the position is evidently obscure…

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Australian Butter Markets

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 4

Butter supplies are showing a steady decline, and according to Prescotts Ltd., the falling off in production from now on will be more rapid. The pastures are expected…

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Cattle Prices Drop

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 6

Cattle have never sold at such low prices for years. At the Maitland asl[?]yards on Monday good bullocks were purchased for £5 each. It is wonderful…

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Wheat Board Management

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 2

Another ship— the Paris City—has been allotted to load a bulk cargo of wheat at Sydney. This vessell is not a bulk carrier, and will have to be specially…

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Slack Time in Butter Factories

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 2

The majority of the employees engaged in the butter making industry in the State have been paid off. Out of a total of 1500 employees usually engaged in…

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Cattle and Pigs. Outlook Bad

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 5

Mr G. Smith, the well-known representative of Pitt, Son and Badgery, who is visiting the Dungog Show, holds a gloomy view of the cattle…

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Wheat Guarantee. Difficulty in Financing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 7

At the official opening of the Dubbo Show, the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. W. F. Dun, made an announcement regarding the payment of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 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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Wool Trade. Danger of Complete Collapse

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 4

The serious position of the wool trade and the danger, of a complete collapse of the market were considered by the Federal cabinet…

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Finance and Wheat. Mr. Hughes' Last Words. Melbourne

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 6

THE outstanding feature of Mr. Hughes' speech in the House of Representatives to-day were his references to finance and the wheat pool…

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"All the Wool." Graziers Unable to Pay. Dubbo

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 4

Mr. Donald Cameron states that the Lower Macquarie country is covered with a luxuriant growth of autumn pastures. In his 50 years'…

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Lochend Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 April 1921 · page 4

For about five months a considerable area of farm land at Lochend has been under water, due to the collapse of the tunnel which drains that land to…

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Dairy Cattle. Jerseys

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 5

Bull, 3 years and over, R. W. Alison, 1; Thos. Hyland. 2. Two years and under 3. R. M. Cox, 1; R. W. Alison, 2. One year and under 2…

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Special Yarding of Dairy Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 5

Rupert Beale and Co., draw aliention to their advertisement of a special yarding of dairy cattle at Scone weekly yarding on Thursday,…

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Cattle. Shorthorns

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 5

Grass-fed.—Bull, 3 years and over, V. and A. Carlton. Two years and under 3, V. and A. Carlton. One year and under 2, V. and A. Carlton…

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Wheat Yields. Bathurst Experiment Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 April 1921 · page 14

The results of last season's cropping on the Bathurst Experiment Farm are now available. The wheat yields ranged from 20 bushels per…

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