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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

1,968 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 28 of 99

Low Prices for Cattle. Northern and Central Queensland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 14

Reports have been received in Brisbane recently of cattle changing hands in Northern and Central Queensland at extraordinarily law prices…

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Wool Trade Expansion London, March 22

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 13

A meeting at Bradford yesterday unanimously decided to register the Wool, Textile, and Finance Company, Ltd., with a capital of £1,000,000, to…

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Wheat Dividends. Payment of £300,000. Interim Amounts

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 6

The Minister for Agriculture, Mr. W. F. Dunn, announced that dividends in the 1917-18, 1918-19, and 1919-20 State wheat pools would be…

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Poultry. Green Feed All the Year Round. a Poultry Farmers' Crop Calendar

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 7

The following list tells the poultry-farmer what and when to sow in order to maintain a constant supply of green feed for his birds throughout the…

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Wool Sales Conspiracy Two Accused Sentenced. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 6

The jury in the case of Edgar Barraelough and Norman Hughes, charged with conspiracy to defraud, returned to court this morning, after being locked…

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Dairy Industry. Low Cream Values

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 15

A conference of delegates of the Southern Queensland Dairying Association, convened by the president of the Queensland Farmers' Union, was…

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Dairying. Gervais Cheese. a Popular Dairy Product

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 7

Gervais cheese is made from half milk and half cream. If the cream is very rich in butter-fat the mixture may be two parts of milk to one…

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The Orchard. a Profitable Side-crop. Prepare Land Now for Strawberries

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 7

Planting time for strawberries will soon be to hand, and preparation of the ground should be started at once. Of the side-crops grown by…

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Primary Producers' Union. Federating and Stabilising the Dairying Industry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 14

Only about hall the present butter production is consumed locally; of the other half it is now definitely known that speculators are placing quantities…

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Farm Eviction. London, March 27

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 April 1922 · page 2

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

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Butter Market. Price Hinders Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 April 1922 · page 6

The increased price of choice, butter, which was advanced last Monday to 140/ per cwt., plus boxes, has stopped export buyers for the…

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Higher Wool Values. More Big Prices. Farmers' & GRAZIERS

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 4

At our sale, on the 28th March, we submitted a catalogue of 5938 bales, almost all parts of the State being represented, the Riverina,…

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Butter Dearer. Rise in Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 3

Melbourne dairy produce merchants decided on Monday to increase the wholesale price of butter by 10/ per cwt. making it 150/ per cwt…

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Higher Wool Values More Big Prices. Farmers and Graziers

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 4

At our sale on the 28th March we submitted a catalogue of 5938 bales, almost all parts of the State being represented, the Riverina, Central Western, Northern…

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Higher Wool Values. More Big Prices. Farmers and Graziers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 2

At our sale, on the 28th March, we submitted a catalogue of 5,938 bales, almost all parts of the State being represented, the Riverina,…

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Wheat Market. Overseas Market Lower

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 3

The week opened quiet and easier on the Sydney wheat market on Monday. Those shipping agents who were quoting reduced their figure by 2d to…

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Butter Charges Aberdeen Primary Producers' Union. Important Decisions

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 2

A general meeting of the Aberdeen branch of the P.P.U. was held at Aberdeen on Thursday last. The attendance was the largest in the…

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Collapse of Cattle Market a Grazier's Poor Return

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 4

This week Mr. Norton, a Glen Innes grazier, sent a truck of 14 steers and heifers to the Homebush markets and recevied an account of…

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Wool Sales. Keen Demand for Merinos

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 3

In Sydney on Monday 7717 bales were catalogued, and, including private transactions, sales totalled 8089 bales. The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers…

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Aberdeen. Primary Producers' Union. the Butter Question. Important Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 4 April 1922 · page 3

A general meeting of the Aberdeen branch of the P.P.U: was held at Aberdeen on 30th March. The attendance was the largest in the…

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