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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1922

1,968 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 66 of 99

£100,000 Cattle Sale. Heifer Makes 4300 GUINEAS

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 2

Extraordinary prices were paid yesterday at Slough for 83 head of registered Friesland cattle imported into this country from South Africa,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 August 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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Wheat Pool. Compensation to Be Paid. As Awarded by Special Committee

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 2

A serious crisis for the State Government in connection with the wheat pool compensation claims was narrowly averted. The progressives were…

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Rural Bank. Advances to Farmers. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 5

The Commissioner of the Rural Bank stated to-day that last year his institution advanced £2,314,000 to farmers, and the Savings Bank advanced £1,…

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Spring Time and the Dairying Industry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 3

Spring time will soon be with us, infusing renewed life and activity into the milking sheds. As is generally known, we are…

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Cotton. Local Possibilities of the Crop

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1922 · page 4

So keen has been the interest taken by farmers and others of late in the possibilities of Australian-grown cotton that the Department of…

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Margarine. Solid As Australian Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 14

An instance of the sale of margarine on a large scale under the guise of Australian butter to the detrinment of our product, has been brought under…

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Butter Markets. the Position Inter-state

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 16

In Sydney the butter market is unaltered at 224/ a cwt. The northern rivers have now reached the minimum point of production…

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Guernsey Cow's Record. Jugh Butter Production

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 11

The Department of Agriculture's Guernsey cow Hope of Wollongbar, stationed at Wollogbar Farm, has completed her 12 months test under…

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Wheat Pool. Claims Against Agents

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 2

The State Wheat Board (1920-21 compulsory pool), has for some time been dealing with the matter of claims made against the receiving agents for…

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Wheat Pools No Compensation for 1916-17

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 6

Mr Chaffey Minister for Agriculture, in the Legislative Assembly on Wednesday night, said that the question of the payment of compensation on the…

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Australian Wheat. British Government Purchase London, August 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 13

In the Commons, replying to Sir Newton Moore, Sir W. Mitchell Thomson said the contract for the Purchase of Australian wheat by the…

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Wool Tops Case. New Record for Costs Expected

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 14

An official in touch with the progress of the £1,000,000 wool tops case in the High Court, Sydney, estimate that each of the question asked by counsel…

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White Bay Tragedy. Overwhelmed by Wheat. Inquest Opened. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 8

The tragedy on steamer Nortolk at White Bay on July 17, when three men lost their lives when load wheat, was inquired into at the Sydney…

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Claim for Extras. White Bay Wheat Elevator. £100,000 Involved

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 9

An inquiry is at present being made by the Government into the merits of a claim for about £100,000 extra payments in connection with…

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Pure Bred Bulls. Supplying Daily Farmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 6

In reply to further representations from the Primary Producers Union in regard to supplying dairy farmers with pure-bred balls from the State studs…

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Cotton Culture. Tamworth and North Coast Farmers Interested

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 14

Among the first applicants for cotton seed for the coming season's planting are a number of Tamworth farmers , who wish to put in one to two acres…

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A New Pest. Rean Crops Damaged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 11

A serious infestation to early French bean crops in the Matcham, Gosford, Kincumber districts has been investigated by the…

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Narromine Farmers Enterprise

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

A metropolitan contemporary informs its readers that about three years ago the Narromine Agricultural Association evolved a most simple, practical…

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Sale of Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1922 · page 4

Mr. J. P. Idstein reports having sold by private treaty a farming property comprising 24½ acres Of agricultural land improved with…

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