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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

1,968 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 19 of 99

Wheat and Flour. Advance in Melbourne

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 13

The price of wheat in Melbourne was again advanced on Saturday by the Victorian Wheatgrowers' Corporation. The increase was 1d per…

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Wheat Pool. Quantity of Grain Delivered

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 3

Only about 50,000 bags of wheat were received into the New South Wales voluntary wheat pool during the pst week, the total quantity…

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Export Butter. the New Regulations. Questions of Control

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 5

With the coming into force Wednesday of revised and amended regulations under the Dairy Industry Act in the State, the co[?] between the [?]…

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Butter Market. Position in London. Prices Should Harden

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 9

Mr. Mearcs, general manager of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Ltd., supplies the following interesting data upon the current…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. London, February 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 12

The "Times" Antwerp correspondent reports that realisation sales are concluded, and 18,250 bales were offered in the two days. French and…

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Wool Sales. Values Firm for Good Fleeces

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 5

At the wool sales in Sydney on Wednesday 10703 bales were offered, and 9151 were sold. Private sales totalled 1053 bales…

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Farmer Drowned. Winner of Many Prizes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 3

Mr. Frederick John Fredericks, a well-known Dorrigo farmer, was drowned in the Bellinger River on Thursday night. He was 51 years…

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Farm Engineering. "Still Behind the Horses." a Farmer's Criticism of the Tractor

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 7

The case for and against the tractor as an effective agent in economic agriculture has been put forward with a good deal of spirit from time…

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Dairy Industry. New Regulations to Operate

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 March 1922 · page 13

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. W. F. Dunn) draws the attention of the managers of butter and other dairy produce,…

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Butter Market. Rain Interferes with Supplies

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 March 1922 · page 6

In Sydney the price of butter is unaltered at 121/4 a cwt. The Northern River districts have experienced excessive rain, which has…

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Gunnedah Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 2

Bacon and Company (gunnedah). yarded on 3rd inst, 182 mixed cattle, and cleared the whole yarding as follows:—10 bullocks £1 10, 1 cow…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 4

Those 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. Spinning Wools Slightly Easier

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 3

At the wool sales in Sydney 9919 bales were offered, and 8321 were sold. Private sales totalled 1095 bales. The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers…

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Another Splendid Wool Sale More Big Prices

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 3
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The Farmers and Graziers' Co-operative Company reports:— "At our fourteenth sale of the current wool-year, held on the Ist inst., we…

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Another Splendid Wool Sale. More Big Prices

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 1

The Farmers and Graziers Cooperative Company reports;—"At our fourteenth sale of the current wool-[?] [?] [?]…

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Farm Engineering. "Still Behind the Horses." a Farmer's Criticism of the Tractor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 4

The case for and against the tractor as an effective agent in economic agriculture has been put forward with a good deal of spirit from time…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 7 March 1922 · page 4

The following applications for patents connected with the farming and pastoral industries have been accepted at the Commonwealth Patent Office:—…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 5

At the wool sales the total offering in the new series was 10,000 bales of Bawra and 122,000 private. There was a large attendance of home…

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Export Butter. State's Improved Quality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 March 1922 · page 6

The following information is submitted on the authority of the Minister for Trade and Customs. For the month of February. 1922,…

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