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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 43 of 109

Dairying. the True Worth of a Cow

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 3

The discoveries of the Bubcock tester are so arresting that it seems inevitable that even the least progressive dairyfarmer must eventually say good-bye to…

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The Digger Influence in Farming

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 3

"Can you tell me the best method of making hay from cow-peas?" The foregoing inquiry reached the Department of Agriculture recently. It…

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Cost of Production. Its Determination the First Factor in Profitable Farming

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 3

What moral is to be drawn from a given circumstance or event depends upon one's point of view, but to the least meditative dairy-farmer the recent…

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Dairymen Affected

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 14

Apart from the heavy losses which many farmers in the district have sustained through hundreds of acres of rich agricultural land being…

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Flooded Farms. About Fishery Creek. Farmers' Fight Against Flood Waters

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 14

Their farms threatened with inundation with the consequent destruction of crops and heavy loss to them. several farmers holding land adjacent…

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Dairy Industry. South Coast Conditions. Select Committee's Review

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 9

The select committee of the Legislative Council, which has spent the last week taking evidence from Kiama to Bega, and thence to…

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Dairying. Insure Your Good Milkers. Protection Offered by Silage

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 May 1921 · page 7

Silage is a great standby and insurance, not only against diminution of the products of dairy cows in lean periods, but against the loss of valuable milkers…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 5

It was definitely announced by the Sydney wool selling brokers this Morning that the sales fixed for to-day have been postponed till…

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Australian Wheat Sales. Sir Joseph Cook's Statement. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 5

Sir Joseph Cook, Interviewed this morning as regards the sale of 30,000 tons, of wheat to the French Government in February last, said, "I know…

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Dairy Industry. Necessity for Herd Testing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 May 1921 · page 3

At the closing session of the annual conference of the Australasian Butter and Cheese factory Managers and Secretaries' Association, in…

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Dairy Cattle Sale

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 2

Grainier Falkiner, Ltd, Singleton report having conducted a special sale of dairy cattle on Friday last. There were about 500 head yarded to a splendid…

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Commercial. Singleton Markets. Special Dairy Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 4

Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., report having conducted a special sale of dairy cattle at the Shire yards, Singleton, on Friday last. There were about 500…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. received the following wire from, their Brisbane office:—Owing Customs difficulties Brisbane wool sales did not…

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Wheat Shipments. Half Export Surplus

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 6

The State Wheat Board last week shipped 33,800 tons of wheat at Darling Island. Yen ships were despatched, and on Monday seven vessels were…

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Agricltural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 May 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 Sales to France. the Reticence of the Board. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 2

Sir Joseph Cook, when interviewed with regard to the sale of 800,000 tons of wheat to the French Government in February last, said: "I know no more of it…

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Wool Sales Postponed Customs Regulations Not Finalised. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 2

It was denitely announced by the Sydney wool-selling brokers this morning that the sales fixed for to-day had been postponed till to-morrow on account of…

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Wheat Sales to France SIR J. Cook Disclaims All Knowledge. The Reticence of the Board. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 2

Sir Joseph Cook, when interviewed with regard to the sale of 300,000 tons of wheat to the French Government in February last, said: "I know no more of it…

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Dairy Industry. Necessity for Herd Testing

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 2

At the closing session of the annual conference of the Australasian Butter and Cheese Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association in…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 May 1921 · page 4

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

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