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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

1,910 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 60 of 96

Closer Settlement. Farmers' Conference Decisions. Road Improvements

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 7

Closer settlement matters again occupied the attention of the Farmers and Settlers' Association Conference, when the second portion of a…

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Increased Production in Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 9

You would materially increase the milk yield and butterfat test of your herd by methodically drenching each cow after calving with Sykes's Drench. Do not overlook this,…

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The Farm Garden. Early Tomatoes. the Question of Manuring

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 10

Those who grow tomatoes in small areas for home purposes are often tempted to overdo the manuring. It must be remembered that heavy…

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Dairying. Quality. in Cream. Problem of Its Control

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 10

The second quality cream supplier has a direct retarding influence on the quality of New South Wales butter, and is therefore one of the factors…

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Test Case. Amicably Settled. Cessnock Farmers Interested. Cessnock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 16

The adjourned matter in which W. L. Bridge sought to recover from the Cessnock District Co-operative Company the sum of £12/6/6, being…

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Country Party. Must Be Separate Entity. Farmers' Conference Decisions. SYDNEY

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 16

The Farmers' Conference has deeded, that in order, that the Country Party should occupy its rightful place in State and Federal politics,…

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Miscellaneous. Carpentry on the Farm. How to Sharpen a Saw

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 7

Before being sharpened, all saws should be run over from handle to tip with a flat file, an old mill-saw file being the best for the purpose…

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Motor Trains. Farmers and Settlers Reference

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 2

In the report submitted to the Farmers and Settler' Conference, reference was made to the motor train question in connection with…

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Compulsory Voting. Motion Lost at Farmers' Conference

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 7

A resolution, demanding that voting be made compulsory in both Federal and State elections, was discussed at the New South Wales…

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Demand by Farmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 3

At the Farmers and Settlers' Conference yesterday, the question of wheat compensation came up for discussion in the form of a resolution…

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Dairymen's Losses. £8,000,000 in Ten Years. Darkest Dairying and the Way Out

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 4

Wide publicity has been given to the estimate of Mr. L. T. Machines, State Dairy Expert, given at the provincial Conferences in connection with the Rural Credit and Community Settlement Bill, to the effect that the dairy farmers of New South Wales lose as much as £8,000,000 every ten…

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Dairying. Quality in Cream. the Problem of Its Control

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 3

The second-quality cream" supplier lias a direct retarding influence on the quality of New South Wales butter, and is therefore one of the factors…

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Compulsory Voting Motion Lost at Farmers' Conference

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 August 1923 · page 3

A resolution demanding that voting be made compulsory in both Federal and State elections, was discussed at the New South Wales Farmrs…

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Wheat Crops. Largely Increased Area

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 August 1923 · page 6

Preliminary reports by officers of the Agricultural Department indicate, there will be a largely increased area under wheat in the western…

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Butter Position. Inter-state Markets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 August 1923 · page 3

In Sydney the butter market is unaltered at 224/ per cwt, for choicest quality. On the Northern Rivers heavy frosts are retarding the growth…

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Police Prosecuted. for Detention of Sheep. Disputed Ownership

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 August 1923 · page 4

Charges of detention of property against Sergeant N. Haddon, of the West Maitland Police, were heard before Mr. A. R. Perry, P.M., at the…

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The Wheat Trouble

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 1

As the "Bulletin" sees it:— Because of shameful bungling, and worse, farmers whose war wheat was commandeered by the…

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Butter. Price Reduced. Brisbane

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 1

The wholesale selling price of butter in Queensland has been reduced from 224/ cwt. to 196/ from to-day…

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Review of the Butter Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 4

The C.F. Society reports: The following: comparative summary of exports from New South Wales is a graphic illustration of the disastrous…

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Butter Cow. New World's Champion

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 21 August 1923 · page 6

The world's record for butter fat production has again been beaten by a Canadian friesian cow, de Kol Plus Segis Dipie, owned by…

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