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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

1,910 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 55 of 96

Sheep for London. the Empire Exhibition

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 14

The Empire Exhibition Commission has decided that live stock exhibits should be confined to merine rams, the maximum value of each not a exceed…

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Wheat Pool. the 1916-17 Accounts

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 15

In the course of a statement, Mr. Chaffey, Minister for Agriculture, stated that the recommendations of the committee that the accounts…

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For Handling Wheat. Claim for £22,000. SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 14

The claim for £22,000 by the Lindley Walker Co-operative Wheat Company, Limited, from the N.S.W. Government, entered upon its 23rd day…

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Heavy Fines. Sly Crop Selling

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 2

Heavy fines were inflicted in sly-grog selling cases at Cairns (Q), Jaines Gerorge Sang was fined £80, in default five months imprisonment…

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Agricultural. This Farm Vegetable Patch. Plant Potatoes Now in Coastal Districts

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 9

Growers in coastal districts who have not yet planted their potatoes should put them in without delay. The aim should be to bring the crop…

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Dairying. Co-operation Reduces Dairying Costs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 9

The ways in which co-operation can save the farmer money are almost beyond count. Having outlined certain crop-growing and feeding programmes…

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Dairying. Only the Best

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 7

Nature has been very kind to dairy-farmers in this State providing ample, feed for all normal conditions but there is one direction, in which…

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Branxton Dairy Co. Fifth Annual Meeting

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 16

The fifth annual meeting of shareholders in the Branxton Co-operative Dairy CO., Ltd., was held in the School of Arts hall,Branxton on Saturday…

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Dairying Industry in New South Wales. Levelung-up Expected. Where Will It Start ?

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 4

The stage is set for a levelling-up of the dairying industry in New South Wales, it is not to be expected that our dairymen will for long tolerate our present position of inferiority to Denmark in the matter of productiveness per head of cows in our dairy herds…

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What Every Farmer Should Know

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 August 1923 · page 1

The regular use of Sykes's Drench at calving time ensures a perfectly healthy herd. Your mind is relieved of the worry of bad cleansing, milk fever, mammitis and…

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Butter Markets. Interstate Position

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 3

The Sydney butter market is unaltered at 224/ per cwt, for choicest quality. The output of butter on the Northern Rivers continues to decline…

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Commercial. Maitland Stock Sales. Fat Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 4

About 1020 fat cattle were yarded at the Campbell's Hill saleyards to-day, being only a moderate supply and well within, the…

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Wool Growers. Forming Protection Fund

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 8

A meeting of the council of the United Growers' Association of Queensland carried a motion that the council generally support a proposal submitted…

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Cattle Industry. Queensland Proposes Fixed Prices. Board Recommended

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 2

Definite proposals for the alleviation of the condition of the cattle industry in Queensland are contained in a scheme of very wide incidence…

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Wheat Pool. Colonel Bruxner's Criticism. Premier in Reply

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 6

State Ministers in Cabinet on Saturday discussed the statement made by Mr. Bruxner, leader of the Progressive party, in reference to…

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Uplifting the Dairy Herds

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 4

One thing to which special attention night we11 be given by butter factory directorates and by branches of the Agricultural Bureau and the newly…

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Disease in Dairy Stock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 3

At the monthly meeting of the district Pastures Protection Board, the stock inspector (Mr. C. Brookes) reported that for some years a disease…

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Farmers' Markets. Sussex-street Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1923 · page 4

In Sussex-Street to-day, butter made 224/ cwt, Eggs, new-laid, 1/8 dozen; rails and river, 1/6, Choose, local, large, 1/3 to 1/4 1b.: loaf, 1/4…

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Cattle Industry Fixed Prices. Queensland Proposals.. Brisbane

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 7 August 1923 · page 2

Definite proposals for the alleviation of the condition of the cattle industry in Queensland are contained in a scheme of very wide incidence…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 August 1923 · 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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