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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1923

1,910 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 85 of 96

Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 November 1923 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan & Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd, report. 14th November: —The market continues strong with competition active, especially on…

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Riverina Lands. Extension of Wheat Growing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 November 1923 · page 7

The extension of the Victoria railway lines into the Southern Riverina, and the improved transport facilities that will be accorded, have created a…

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Wool Sales. Keen Competition' in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 November 1923 · page 7

At the Sydney wool sales, 7502 bales were offered at auction, and 5852 sold. Private sales totalled 334 bales…

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Overproduction of Wheat. American Proposal. New York, Nov. 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 November 1923 · page 2

A message form Chicago states that the National Wheat Council's Production Committee reporting on the programme for the solution of the wheat…

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Dairymen, take heed! Seasonable Reminders

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 November 1923 · page 2

Mr. H. P. Chapman, district inspector, Department of Agriculture, who has been in the district recently, draws the attention of dairymen…

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Butter Stabilisation Explanation of Failure

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 9

The stabilisation committee of the dairying industry informed all butter factories by telegram that owing to definite refusal of a number of…

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Wheat Claims. Case for Progressives

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 11

The delay in presenting to the Auditor-General the case for the Progressives in connection with the payment by the Government of…

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Wheat-growing. Influence of Rain. London, Nov. 8

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 12

A problem of vital importance to the proposal to push Australian wheat-growing beyond the 10in rain belt was discussed to-day by the Royal Society…

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Electricity on the Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 11

For several years past, some remarkably successful experiments in the application of electricity to farming have been conducted by a…

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Irrigation. Farming Under Irrigation. Construction of Ditches and Checks

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 9

Tho consideration that must receive attention in the choice and layout of an irrigation farm have already been dealt with in these notes, as have also…

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Farmer Settlers of the Past

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 6

Throughout Australia in the past the men who took up farming holdings had with their families in many cases, to struggle hard and practice…

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Irrigation. Farming Under Irrigation. Methods of Applying the Water

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 6

In a discussion of the possibilities of irrigation farming in New South Wales, some space as devoted in these notes last week to the…

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The Farm Garden. Pumpkin's, Marrows and Melons

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 6

The production of pumpkins, marrows, and melons is somewhat similar and so simple is it in our climate that this class of vegetable is often…

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Differential Rating. Town Improvement Area. Farmers Will Prepare Map

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 1

Mr. R. J. Dilley presided at a meeting in Miss Chamberlain's rooms Wednesday, of those interested in differential rating. There was a…

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Dairy Industry. Conservation of Fodder. Tilba Tilba's Bright Example

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 4

The Select Committee on Agriculture of the Legislative Council (1921) under the leadership of Sir Joseph Carruthers in the dairy industry section of its report lias the following : On the all-important question of fodder conservation and feeding…

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Immigrants for N. S. Wales Training on Farms

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 5

Despite the outery of Labor membars, the State Government intends to push on steadily with the immigration agreement under which New South…

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Dream Clue to Murder Young Man's Body in Farm Ruins

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 November 1923 · page 2

Consequent upon a vivid dream (says an English paper just to hand), Scotland Yard have found the skeleton remains of a minister's son who…

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Serious Rival. Argentine Dairying Development

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 November 1923 · page 6

Mr. W. Tate, who has returned to Wellington (N.Z.), from the Argentine utters a serious warning against taking the productive rivairy of the great…

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Firm Wool Market. Values Unchanged

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 20 November 1923 · page 4

The secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co.op Co. reports:—At our sale on the 12th inst., we brought forward an average…

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Firm Wool Market Values Unchanged

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 November 1923 · page 3

The Secretary Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co. reports:— At our sale on the 12th inst., we brought forward an average catalogue,…

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