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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

1,968 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 26 of 99

Drought Conditions. Farmers Scared. Young

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 4

Drought conditions prevail and are causing some concern to farmers and others on the land Clouds have come up recently, but have been…

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Primary Producers Union. Federating and Stabilising the Dairying Idustry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 7

Mr. J. M. Scott, Primary Producers Uniion, writer:— Only about half the present butter production is consumed locally; of the…

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Farm Eviction. (London. March 27

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 5

The Ulster Cabinet has accepted the invitation to the London Conference. Sir James Cralg leaves Belfast to-morrow…

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Gloucester. History and Development. Agriculture and Dairying

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 March 1922 · page 4

Gloucester is now recognised as one of the most prosperous and progressive districts in New South Wales, and there is no doubt that had…

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Wheat and Flour Reduced

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 March 1922 · page 5

The Voluntary Pool has reduced the price of wheat to millers from 6/ to 5/10. Flour in Sydney was reduced by 10/ to £13/10/ per ton…

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Wool Sales. Strong Sydney Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 March 1922 · page 8

A catalogue of 8974 bales of wool were submitted in Sydney on Tuesday, and sales including private transaction, totalled 11,167 bales…

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Our Telegrams. Wheat for Germany. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 March 1922 · page 5

It was announced to-day that the shipment of 6000 tons of wheat by the ex-Austrian Isonso has been sold to Germany…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep Firm But Cattle Dull. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 4

P[?] Son and Badgery, Ltd., report: —Forty-six thousand sheep penned. Good quality sheep were firm and prime lambs, very firm, other…

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Butter Prices Raised

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 4

Melbourne dairy produce merchants decided on Monday to increase the wholesale price of butter by 14/ per cwt, to 140/ per cwt. The new prices…

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Butter Grading. Regulations Not Suspended

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 3

It has been freely reported that the new regulations under the Dairy Industry Act, which came into force on the 1st inst., and which has been…

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Cattle at Homebush Cheapest Market for Years

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 3

Notwithstanding a gradual decline in cattle values for six or seven weeks past, recent low prices were not even sustained at Homebush on Monday…

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Wool Sales. London, March 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 5

[?] free wool, [?] greasy met with active competition to 24d from Queensland 23d from…

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Wheat Dividends. Payment of £500,000. Interim Amounts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. W. E. Dunn, announced thin dividends in the 1917-18, 1918-19, and 1919-20 State whem pool would be…

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Wheat Sold to Germany (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 3

It was announced to-day that a shipment of 6000 tons of what by the exAustrian steamer. Isonso has been sold to Germany…

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Primary Producers' Union Federating and Stabilising the Dairy Industry

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 March 1922 · page 3

Only about half the present butter production is consumed locally. Of the other half it is how definitely known that speculators are placing quantities…

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British Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 3

The improving trend of the London butter market is heartening to dairyfarmers after the more or less chaotic conditions of the past thee months or so. Recent…

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Wool Conspiracy

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 2

At the Quarter Sessions to-day Edgar Barraclough and Edgar Hughes were [?]each sentenced to two years' imprisonment on a charge of…

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Agricultural. Wheat Growing. Better Seed, Better Crops'

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 6

In agriculture selection may be domed as the separation for purposes of s[?]eeding of plants (or stock) considered to be of especially desirable type…

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Wheat Pool. Victorian Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 3

Since the inception of the voluntary wheat pool by the Victorian. Wheat growers' Corporation 31,895,000 bushels had been received up to last Saturday…

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Poor Cattle Return. Glen Innes Grazier's Experience

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 March 1922 · page 3

This week Mr. Norton, of Glen Innes, sent a truck of 14 steers and heifers to the Homebush market, and received an account of the sales, which…

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