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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,508 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 39 of 126

Wool Market. Sales in Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 9

The Australian wool shipments for the first nine months of the season amount to 1,419,571 bales, as compared with 1,776,964 bales…

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Ravages by Dingo. Less Sheep in the West

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 11

Speaking at the annual dinner of the Chamber of Agriculture, Dr. N. W. Kater, M.L.C., president of the Graziers' Association, referred to the…

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Butter Industry. Change in Marketing System. Dr. Page's Hopes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 4

Replying at Dorrige to representations made by the chairman and members of the board of directors of the Dorrige Co-operative Dairy Company,…

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Dairying. a Bad Dairying Habit

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 16

It is surprising how the habit of washing the separator only once a day survives the march of dairying progress. The habit is still persisted in…

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Farm Tragedy. Dreadnought Boy Found Shot

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 6

Keith E. Elliott, a Dreadnought boy, was found shot through the heart on Sunday, at the home of his employer, Mr. Malcolm M'Leod, a…

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Dairying. Clearing Milking Machines

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 April 1924 · page 9

Experiments carried out by the United States Department of Agriculture have shown heat to be the safest and simplest means of sterilising apparatus…

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In Sheep and Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 4

In sheep the disease occurs in the acute form. Stiffening of the muscles, with spasms of the muscles of mastication, is usually present. The…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 4

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report 24th April : The Easter holiday recess has "steadied up" what little business was passing, but for the…

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Butter Industry Change in Mahketing System

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 4

Replying at Dorrigo to representations made by the chairman and membors of the board of directors of the Dorrigo Co-operativo Dairy Company,…

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Wool Prospects Trade Abroad

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Lack of actual sales is the chief characteristic of the local and all other wool markets at present…

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Help for the Butter Industry Dr. Page's Promise

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 4

Replying to representations made by the chairman of the board of directors of the Dorrigo Co-operative Dairy Company, who asked that…

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£40 for Dingo Skin a Notorious Sheep-killer

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 2

Settlors along the Merri Merri Creek, Warren district, have, for months past, suffered heavy losses through the ravages of a dingo. A drive was…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 4

These Dotes are issued every weeK under the personal supervision of the Honorable the Minister for Agriculture and are basted mainly on the…

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Government's Liabilities Italian Government v. State Wheat Board. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 2

Further argument was heard before Mr Justice Ferguson in Chambers today on an application on behalf of the N.S.W. Government for the setting…

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Dangerous Dairying

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 2

H. H. (Brown, M.L.A., for Durham, from 1872 to 1898, mentioned in "Smith's" recently, should be regarded as the patron saint of…

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Dairying. for Cleaning Milking Machines. Heat the Best Sterilising Agents

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 29 April 1924 · page 4

Experiments carried out by the United States Department of Agriculture have shown heat to be the safest and simplest means of…

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Butter Dearer. Advance of Twopence. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 May 1924 · page 5

The quotation for butter was advanced 2d per 1b Sussex—street to-day, making the new price 163/3 cwt…

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Farmers' Markets. Sussex Street Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 May 1924 · page 4

In Sussex—street to-day butter made 163/1 cwt; eggs, new laid 2/9 dozen, rails and rivers 2/3; cheese, local large 10½d lb, loaf 11d; boney, 5d to l½d…

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For Flies on Dairy Cattle

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 6

As a repellent against flies on dairy cattle a pine tar creosote emulsion is reported as having given excellent results for periods of one to three days in…

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Muswellbrook Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 4

Higgens, Parkinson and Co. report having yarded 500 catle on the 29th ult., and sold out excepting a few head. Buyers were in good…

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