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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,508 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 40 of 126

The Local Butter Factory

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 3

Extensive alterations are being made to the local butter factory. New tanks are being put in, and provision is to be made to enable the factory…

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The Wool Industry. Future Prospects. an English Broker's Review

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 8

The position of Australia as a grower of merino wool, and the fact that the prosperity of the country largely depends upon wool were…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land the Question of Fallowing. In Districts of Ample Rainfall

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Minister of Agriculture, and are based largely on the experience of the Department. PASTORAL. The problem exercising the mind of a Muttama wheat-grower was presented to the Department of Agriculture in the following terms:— "Wheat grown on…

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Dairy Industry Federal Attitude. Where It Can Help

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 6

The reported remarks of Dr. Earle Page, on his North Coast tour, as to what the Commonwealth has done and is prepared to do for the dairying…

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Crop of Evils (Published by Arrangement.)

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 4

A scathing denouncement of Probihition has been made in the New York "Times" by Dr. S. Dana Hubbard, Direct or of Public Health Education of the…

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Dairying. a Bad Dairying Habit

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 May 1924 · page 6

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 11

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

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Protection for the Farmer (Contributed)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 16

Australians as a whole are staunch supporters of a Protectionist policy but the average farmer usually inclines to Free Trade, or is at least…

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Dairying in New Zealand

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 15

Report to the chairman of directors, Raymond Terrace Co—op. D. & P. Coy. Ltd., by the manager, Mr. P. A. Searr. NO. 1…

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Winter School for Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr F. A. Chaffey) stated that it is proposed to commerce the winter course for farmers and poultrymen an…

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Dairying. Concrete Dairies

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 9

Almost [?] out of every hundred of the dairies in this State are [?] of wood with a gaivanisediron roof, the floors being of course…

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Agricultural. the Farm Garden. How to Make a Hotbed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 9

The first requisite for the making of a [?] is a quantity of stable manure. Shake this out loosely—reecting about a third of the loose…

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Gored by Bull. Bega Farmer Seriously Injured. Bega

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 5

Thomas Darcy, a prominent, farmer and factory director, was severely gored by a bull which inflicted a wound, necessitating nine stitches,…

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A Fortune From £100. Farm Romance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 11

Landing in Western Australia in 1911, Robert Carruthers, previously manager of a farm near Gretna Green, is now in a position to sell out…

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Dairying. Cleaning Milking Machines

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 6

Experiments carried out by the [?]ted States Department of Agriculture have shown heat to be the safest, and simplest means of sterilising apparatus…

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Dairying Concrete Dairies. Advantages of the Slab Type

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 May 1924 · page 5

The following is issued by the Department of Agriculturo:— Almost ninety-nine but of every hundred of the dairies in this State are…

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Bawra Wool. Australian Distribution

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1924 · page 3

In the three and a half years of its existence Bawra which is to cease operations shortly has disposed of 2,611,277 bales of wool, large parcels of…

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Butter Dearer. Advance of One Penny. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1924 · page 5

The wholesale price of butter was advance by a peany per pound in sussex—street to-day The new quotation is now 172/8 per cwt…

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Northern Territory. Lack of Transport Facilities. Fine Sheep Country

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1924 · page 2

Mr. Stewart. Federal Minister for works and Railways, has returned to Adelaide after a tour of the southern portion of the Northern Territcty. He…

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Englishman. Make Best Farmer. Canadian Journalist's Views

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 May 1924 · page 6

Discussing immigration, Sir John Wilison, a famous canadiam journalist, confessed that they had not done enough in canada…

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