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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

1,968 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 62 of 99

Three Men Killed. Fatality on a Steamer. Overwhelmed by Wheat

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

A shocking accident in which three men lost their lives occurred last night at White Bay. The steamer Norfolk was being…

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Wool Sales. Operations for the Year. Total of £14,754,900

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 11

The value of the wool sold in Sydney during the season ended June 30 last amounted to £14,754,966, as compared with £5,669,904 during the previous…

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Improving Dairy Herds. South Australian Legislation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 14

The Minister for Agriculture, South Australia, states that it is proposed that the money made available under the Dairy Cattle Improvement Act…

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Co-operative Bacon and Dairy Co. (To the Editor.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 5

Sir,—The argument for and against the proposed Producers Co-operative Bacon and Dairy Co. has reached the stage where it is necessary for the…

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Dairy Requisites

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 July 1922 · page 1

We are most admirably equipped to supply anything and everything required for the treatment of milk and cream. and the manufacture of cheese and…

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Big Pastoral Project

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1922 · page 2

While in London the Premier of W.A. (Sir James Mitchell) was consulted by the promoters of the North-west Development Company to be…

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Wool Auction

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 July 1922 · page 7

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report: Since the close of last week's auction there has been considerable activity in private treaty and we have been…

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Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1922 · page 2

The 17th annual general meeting of shareholders of the above will be held in Memorial Town Hall on August 26th, at 11 a.m…

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Butter Price. Reduction in Melbourne

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

The wholesale price of butter was reduced in Melbourne on Monday by 10/- a ewt equivalent to about 1d a lb. Selling agents decided upon this…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 July 1922 · 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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Mob of Sheep Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1922 · page 5

BATHURST, Tuesday.—A flock of 300 sheep belonging to S. Willnott was caught by flood waters in a paddock at Esrom, and swept away and…

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Farmers' Produce Markets. Sussex-street Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 July 1922 · page 5

To-day's quotations in Sussex-street were:—Eggs, new laid, 2/6 per dozen; case, 2/4 to 2/5. Butter, 224/ per ewt. Honey, 4d to 5d per lb. Beeswax, 1/9…

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Cattle From Dominions London, July 26

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

The House of Lords passed a resolution favouring the removal of the embargo on cattle from the overseas dominions subject to precautions by…

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Wheat Pools. Discussed in Commons. London, July 25

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

Replying to a question in Parliament as to the movement amongst farmers' co-operative societies in Australia, Canada and the United States…

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Marketing Scheme. of Farm Products

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 July 1922 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture, Captain Chaffey, stated that the question of the establishment of a marketing branch of the Agricultural Department…

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Farmers Refused Help Petty Economy

Singleton Argus · Thursday 27 July 1922 · page 2

Progressive members of Parliament state that the Government is exercising a petty economy at the expense of men on the land, having stopped the…

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Butter Industry

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 3

New South Wales and Victoria have ratified the, scheme for the standardisation of the butter industry recently agreed to at a conference. The Minister…

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Butter and its Future

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 6

The dairying industry is one above all others that should he encouraged. We sometimes hear of prominent men having been "brought up on a…

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Friesian Cattle. Popularity in England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 3

The Friesian is on the crest of the wave of popularity in England. This was convincingly evidenced at the remarkable sale of a consignment of…

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Canadian Cattle. Embargo Removed. London. July 23

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 July 1922 · page 5

The House of Commons, without a division agreed to the remova of the embargo on the importation of Canadian cattle, after defeating an…

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