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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1921

2,177 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 109

Big Live Stock Prices. Farmers and Graziers' Co. Pushing to the Front

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 1

The Secretary of the Farmers & Graziers' Co-operative Co. writes: "Although we have not been handling fat stock for any great length…

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Gosford Farms

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 1

We desire to draw attention, of our readers to an advertisement appearing in our columns of "The Gosford Farms." The estate is divided…

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Commonwealth Will Pay Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 6

Commenting on the failure of the N.S.W. Government to find the money to pay the wheat farmers an additonal 2/6 a bushel apart from the…

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Dairying. the Cheese Mite. Pest With Remarkable Habits

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 3

To the average consumer of cheese the cheese mite is merely an object of curiosity, though many suppose that it is only to be found on a good cheese. The…

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Training Farmer Junior. Tasmanian School Children Learn Fruit Packing

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 3

The fruit division of the Tasmanian Department of Agriculture has commenced classes for the instruction of school children in the correct methods of…

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Viticultural. to Safeguard the Grape Crop. Importance of Spraying for Downy Mildew

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 3

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. W. F. Dunn, desires that the attention of vignerons be' directed to the importance of taking precautious against…

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Farming Publication

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 4

It is notified elsewhere that the first number of "Australian Farming," an Illustrated monthly, written by exports, will be published on January 17…

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Dairying. Concrete Floor for Dairy Premises

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 January 1921 · page 3

For all general purposes as applied to dairy premises, the concrete floor will be found most advantageous, being preferable to bricks, flagstones, or other…

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Wheat Board. Reduction of Overdraft

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 January 1921 · page 2

The Australian Wheat Board's financial statement for the week ended January 10 gives the aggregate bank overdraft at £642,000 which…

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Wheat Growing. Great Changes Required

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 January 1921 · page 2

Mr. H. W. Potts, late principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College, who has joined a loading Australian wheat firm, [?] Riverina last…

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Agriculture. Flag Smut of Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 January 1921 · page 2

The spores of flag smut (the fine black dusty matter which is observable on crushing a leaf of an infected wheat plant) can reach the wheat grain in two…

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Wool Sale Scheme. Yorkshire Irritation. LONDON.January 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 January 1921 · page 5

Bradford is showing strong irrilation at the Australian wool scheme. The "Yorkshire Observer" angrily condenms it and declares that the sales in London…

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Dairying. Concrete Floor for Dairy Premises

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 January 1921 · page 2

For all general purposes as appiled to dairy premises, the concrete floor will be found most advantageous, being preferable to bricks, flagstones, or other…

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Butter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 2

During the month of December, Muswellbrook Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., received 99,914 lbs of cream, from which 47,831 lbs of butter were…

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Armidale Cattle Sale

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

We are requested to call the attention of cattle buyers, to Messrs. W. J. Hawke and Co's. very important cattle sale, to be held at…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 3

The Pastoral Finance Association, Limited, report 13th January, 1921:—The resumption, of wool auctions next month is being looked forward to with the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 4

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

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Wool Sales Withdrawals. Yorkshire Protest. London, Jan 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 2

The ."Times" Bradford. correspondent wires The worsted industry is handicapped by the hoarding policy and increasing unemployment…

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Private Enquiry for Wool. More Confident Feeling Loca[?]

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 January 1921 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., report:—The effects of the duties on the importation of wool into the United States are evidenced in the inquiries…

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