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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,508 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 43 of 126

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

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 May 1924 · page 6

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

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Wonder Cow. Unprecedented Yields of Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 6

The wonder cow of the Darbalara herd of milking Shorthorns, Melba XV., continues her unprecedented yield of butter fat…

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Export Butter. Shipping in Casks Urged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 3

The Minister of Labour and Industry (Mr. Farrar) who is representing the Government at the Empire Exhi[?]tion, stats in a latter to the…

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Bawra Wool. Australian Distributions

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 14

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

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Cases at Tenterfield

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 16

Stanford Butler, on remand, was charged at Tenterfield with stealing 120 head of cattle, the property of A. Smith, Cheviott Hills Station, and he…

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Wheat Guarantee. South Australian Request

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 5

A request was made by a Country Party deputation to Mr. J. Gunn, Premier of South Australia, that the State Government approach the Federal…

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Northern Territory. Lack of Transport Facilities. Fine Sheep Country

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 13

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

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Farmers' Markets. Alenadria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 7

A small yarding of mainly inferior quality preoduce excited litter interest at Alexandria market yesterday. Buyers were holding off and auction rates…

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Bush Affray. Attack on Farmer. Head Severely Gashed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 5

Frederick Stephen Wells, a farmer, who is well-known in the Goulburn district, has been admitted to the District Hospital, where he lies in a…

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Farmer Students. Hawkesbury College Diploma Day

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 5

Diploma Day was celebrated at Hawkesbury Agricultural College on Wednesday in brilliant weather Visitors were present in unprecedented…

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Dairying Enterprise Seaham District

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 16

In this portion of the dairying districts, the dairy farmers are slowly realizing that there will need to be a more progressive movement…

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A Fortune From £100. Farm Romance

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 13

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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Englishmen. Make Best Farmers. Canadian Journalist's" Views

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 13

Discussing immigration, Sir John Willison, a famous Canadian journalist, confessed that they had not done enough in Canada…

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Dairying. Concrete Dairies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 14

Almost ninety-nine out of every hundred of the dairies in this State are built of wood with a galvanised-iron roof the floors being of course…

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Agricultural. the Farm Garden. How to Make a Hotbed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 14

The first requisite for the making of a hotbed is a quantity of stable manure. Shake this out loosely—rejecting about a third of the loose…

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Dairy Herd Testing. District Possibilities. How to Be Achieved

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 May 1924 · page 4

The progress of our district in dairying very largely depends on the progress and extension of the practice of systematic herd testing, and the Agricultural Department is deserving of congratulation on the part that it is taking in this movement, the value of which is far from being…

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Sheep and Wool. What They Mean to Australia

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1924 · page 4

"Ah Poo" writes to the "Buletin" on a subject of importance just now : — Australia is faced with a grave problem owing to the…

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Denman Sheep

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 13 May 1924 · page 5

Compared with opening values, prices at closing Homebush sheep auctions last Thursday showed a substantial advance. The decline…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 May 1924 · page 4

New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., report 8th May : Owing to the comparatively small quantity of wool available for private sales, there is…

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New Butter Factory for Denman

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 May 1924 · page 2

The erection of a new butter factory at Denman will be started within the next few days. The factory will cost £15,000. There are over 200 suppliers…

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