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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

1,910 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 43 of 96

Butter Losses in Transit

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 June 1923 · page 3

Mr Macgregor, chairman of directors of the North Coast Co-operative Co., at a meeting of shareholders of that company at Byron Bay on Friday, made…

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Australian Butter Comes Home

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 June 1923 · page 3

The vagaries of the markets for exported produce from Australia is swell shown in the fact that the mail steamer Mongolia, due in Sydney next Monday,…

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Etna in Eruption Thousands Homeless. Farms and Fields Ruined

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 June 1923 · page 2

London, Tuesday.—Mount Etna has been in most violent eruption since Sunday Thousands of tons of lava have been emitted from the main…

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Butter Factory Managers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 4

Managers of co-operative butter factories are consulting together in their annual conference in Sydney, at the present time. The prowess of the…

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Butter Standardisation. Question of Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 2

In connection with the standardisation of butter to be compassed by the Australian Dairy Council, Mr. Meares, on behalf of the State Advisory Board,…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Yesterday's Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., re-port: We sold 9700 bales at our Sydney sale on Thursday, making our total for the season just on…

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Butter Factory. Features of Export Season. Excess Weights

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 3

At the conference of the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association, Mr. F. Wigan, senior Commonwealth…

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Wool Market. Sydney Market Closes Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 3

The wool sales in Sydney for the season 1922-23 were brought to a close on Thursday, when 7237 bales were offered at auction. Of these…

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Ravmond Terrace Dairy Co

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 4

The report of the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Company, Limited, for the half-year ended April 30 shows that the quantity of…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Co

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 3

The 40th half-yearly meeting of the above Company was held in the Oddfellows' Hull, on Wednesday, when there was a moderate attendance of shareholders…

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Etna in Eruption. Thousands Homeless. Farms and Fields Ruined. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 June 1923 · page 3

Mount Etna has been in most violent eruption since Sunday. Thousands of tons of lava have been emitted from the main crater, and…

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Pastoral. Sucking Sheep Louse How to Control It

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 11

The sucking sheep louse (Haematopinus ovillus) is an external parasite that has made its appearance in a number of flocks in the…

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Butter From Fish

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 10

Butter from a fish? Sounds ridiculous but it is true (the "New york Herald" tells us). In March only the butterfish or colichan, comes from the…

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Voluntary Pool. for Wheat Crop. Government Guarantee

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 14

Following the request of the wheat-growers of New South Wales South Australia, and Western Australia, the Federal Ministry has…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 11

Pitt Son and Badgery, Ltd, report:—The last series of sales for the 1922-23 selling season opened on Monday and created considerable…

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Butter Fat Yield. New Australian Record Claimed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 14

The secretary of the herd books (Mr. R. S. Maynard) advises that a new record has been established by a Friesian heifer imported by Mr…

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Sydney Wool Sales Slightly Higher Values

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 6

The Farmers and-Graziers' Co-operative Grain, Insurance and Agency Co., Ltd., brought' forward a miscellaneous catalogue at their sale on the 18th inst.,…

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Wool Trade. a Buoyant Market Record Year

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 6

The supply of 28,891 bales of wool Drought-forward at the past week's Sydney sales met a demand quite capable of absorbing larger…

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Wool Sales. Brisk Demand. London, June 16

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 13

The Liverpool auction ales concluded to-day with brisk competition for all grades of wool. Sydney scoured closed at fall parity…

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Farming by Electric Light Better and Bigger Crop Than in Sunlight

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 June 1923 · page 12

Lettuces and other vegetables have been successfully "forced" in Germany by the aid of electric light. Over a plot of lettuces five lamps…

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