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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,508 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 34 of 126

A Butter Pool

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 3

Goldsmid, presiding at a meeting of the Murwillumbah branch of the P.P.U. said that it was no use farmers working hard year after year, whilst allowing…

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Price of Butter. Suggested Pool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 4

Dr. Goldsmid, presiding at meeting fo the Murwillumbah branch of the P.P.U., said that it was no use farmers working hard year…

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Aberdeen News (Prom our Representative) Butter Factory

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 7

The output from the Aberdeen factory for the month of March amounted to 52 tons and nett cheques to suppliers totalled £5919…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 3

Those notes are issued every weeK under the personal supervision of the Honorable the Minister for Agriculture and are baaed mainly on the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week under the personal supervisions of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based largely on the experience of the Department. DAIRYING…

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Wool Industry in 1923. Winchcombe Carson's Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 1

The annual report of the Sydney and Brisbane wool markets issued by Messrs. Winchcombe Carson, Limited, is again to hand and…

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Wheat-growing Prospects. Fallowing as a Factor in Profitable Production

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 6

Whatever the difficulties of local wheat-growers, they would appear to be not so great as those in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain…

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Motto Farm

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 3

On Wednesday night, last week, the residents of Motto, Hollowtree, Kennington etc, assembled at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Pepper, to join in a…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Coy

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 4

Rport by Mr. Scarr continud from last week:—The Factories.—These are divided into proprietary and co-operative, though…

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Farmer's Trains

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 2

Mr. R. S. Vincent, M.L.A. has received the following from the Rialway Department:—"I have your letter of the 24th instant…

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Agricultural Merino Versus Crossbred. The Type for Mixed Farming

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 6

Prices for merino wool are temptingly high, but to interpret the fact as an indication that the mixed farmer should dispose of his crossbreds and go…

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Farm Produce

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 2

Butter (14lb., to be packed in 561b box), Denman Co-op. Dairy Co. 1, Scone Co-op. Dairy Co. 2. Butter (21b., other than factory…

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A Crop of Evils. (Published by Arrangement)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 4

A scathing denouncement of prohibition has been made in the New York "Times" by Dr. S. Dana [?] Director of Public Health…

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Magnificent Dispaly of District Products Upper Hunter P. & A. Association Record Show. Largest Attendance in History of Association. Splendid Exhibits in Horses, Cattle and Produce Sections. High Jump Record Broken

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 11 April 1924 · page 1

The Fortieth Annual Exhibition of the Tipper Hunter Pastoral and Africultural Association has left a vivid pla who attended at the showground…

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Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 8

The dairy cattle formed one of the strongest sections of the show. The Jerseys were classed as one of the best lots of this breed ever seen on…

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Australian Butter. London, April 4

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 12

The Lyons catering firm has contracted to supply Australian butter exclusively in the Exhibition restaurants, except in the New Zealand pavilion…

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Stabilisation. Butter Prices. Commonwealth Movement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 4

"Stabilisation" is a word that has had a very great vogue of late in connection with the marketing of butter throughout the Commonwealth. An important meeting was held in Melbourne on Wednesday to which representatives of the States were appointed to devise means to…

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Muswellbrook Show Fine Array of Exhibits. Dairy Cattle Prominent. Splendid Agricultural Trophies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 8

Fine weather prevailed for the second day of the Upper Hunter Show, and the special trains were crowded. With a largely increased entry, the show proved most attractive and was viewed with interest and profit…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 12

Australian, Mercantale, Land Finance Company Ltd report: Catalogues for the 15th series, although including some autumn shorn wools from…

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Wool Industry Heavy Selling Year

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 April 1924 · page 14

An Interesting statement showing the growth of the wool industry was made by a Sydney firm of wool brokers. In 1909-10, the heaviest selling year…

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