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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

1,968 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 99

Favourable Reports Queensland Sugar Crop. Rain Wanted in Parts

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1922 · page 3

Reports from the Queensland sugar districts during the past four weeks have been on the whole favourable especially in the far north, but from…

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State Politics Settling the Land. Million Farms Scheme

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 April 1922 · page 3

At a brief sitting on, Wednesday the State Cabinet dealt with the pressing problem of development and decentralisation…

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Wool Report. Disappearing Wool Stocks. the Regulating of Offerings

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—With the sales of American Government owned wools, held in March, the large stocks of wool accumulated by the…

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Wheat Market. No Local Change

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 6

Despite firmly-maintained ovorseas wheat advices, no change was made in quotations by Sydney shipping agents on Monday. Growers were…

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Wool Sales. Good Market Maintained

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 3

A catalogue of 7018 bales was submitted at the Sydney wool salon on Monday and sales, including private transactions, totalled 7951 bales…

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Pure-bred Cows. Milk and Butter Fat Yields. More Tests Completed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 4

The Dairy Branch, Department of Agriculture, supplies a list of pure bred cows, whose tests of milk and butter fat yields were completed during March…

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Our Butter Has a Reputation. and New South Wales Is the Best of All. American and Canadian Importers Want Information As to the Methods of the Dairymen of N.S. WALES

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 4

New South Wales butter enjoys a high reputation in Canada and the United States, from which flattering references to its good qualities have…

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Dairying Iudustry. Scheme of Control. Victorian Proposal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 3

At the recent conference of dairymen convened by the Victorian Farmers' Union a committee was appointed to prepare a scheme for submission to…

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The Dairy Herd a Good Milker's Points. Training the Eye

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 4

Every dairy-farm ought to be regarded as a school, in which there are practical lessons to be learned on the many subjects relating to…

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Work of P.P.U. Protecting the Dairymen's Interests

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 3

Mr. J. M. Scott, publicity, officer of the P.P.U., has forwarded the following:—In moving the adoption of the report and balance-sheet at the…

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Record Tobacco Crop. Return of £11,000 at Gunnedah

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 4

Mr. R. R. Aitken, the well-known Gunnedah tobacco planter, will send to market this year the greatest yield ever produced by any single…

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The Primary Producers' Union. Dairying Economics

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1922 · page 3

Dealing with dairying interests only the conference of factory delegates held last week in Sydney was interesting, and marks an epoch in this great national…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 April 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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Rain and the Crops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 April 1922 · page 4

The rain which fell yesterday was light and soaking. It could not have come at a more opportune time. Farmers have had their land ploughed for…

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Buovant Wool Market Another Successful Sale. Farmers and Graziers

Singleton Argus · Thursday 27 April 1922 · page 4

The, Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Grain, Insurance, and, Agency Company, Limited, report:— At our sale on the 20th April wo…

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Our Telegrams. Butter Dearer. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 April 1922 · page 5

The wholesale price of butter was increased by 11d per lb. to 177/4 per cwt…

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Wool Sales. Merinos Very Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 April 1922 · page 3

At thE Sydney wool sales on Wednesday, 7242 bales were offered, and 6143 sold. Private sales totalled 1623 bales…

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Wheat Cargoes Firm. Victorian Shipments Sold. London, April 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 April 1922 · page 5

The market for wheat cargoes was again firm. Victorian cargoes of 5500 tons by the Hilversum and 7000 tons by he Frienfels were both sold at…

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Lively Criticism. the Super Tax Bill. Wheat Pool Deficits. All Night Sitting. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 April 1922 · page 5

The Legislative Assembly rose at 5 o'clock this morning, attar passing the Super Tax Bill through all stages…

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Blandford Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 April 1922 · page 3

Competition from French buyers was very keen for Mr. Angus Martin's Mountain View wool, from Blandford, offered at Winchcombe,…

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