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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,508 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 54 of 126

Local and General Muswellbrook Butter Factory

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 4

The output for May this year at the local butter factory is a marked improvement from that of May, 1923. The quantity of butter manufactured…

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Wool Sales. Sydney Market Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 6

The final clearing up wool sale was held in Sydney on Thursday, when a selection below average quality, totalling 10,252 bales, was offered at…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 4

These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Honorable the Minister for Agricultare and are based mainly on the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 June 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. AGRICULTURAL…

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Sydney Wool Sales Market Slightly Easier

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., report 18th June: More than the usual amount of interest was attached to the opesing of the…

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Abusing the Dairy Farmer

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 5

(1) "It must be recognised that city dwellers, the consumers, cannot keep on for ever spoon-feeding, men (on the land, especially the…

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Farmers Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 4

Rates were lower at Alexandria market yesterday, when very little choice produce was yesterday. Only inferior lucerne chaff tucorne, and oaten hay…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Coy

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 3

The forty-second half-yearly meeting of the above Co. was held in the Oddfel-lows' Hall, on Wednesday afternoon. The chairman of Directors, Mr. A. J…

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The Poultry-farmer's Difficulty

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 4

The difficulty with which the commercial poultry-farmer is faced is that, whatever, objective he may have in view in the way of special…

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Dairying. Clean Cows. Their Relationship to Clean Milk

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 June 1924 · page 6

For the production of clean milk, contamination must be avoided from a number of likely sources, and the hands of the milker, the milking receptacles,…

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Worlds Record. Wonderful Butter Production

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 11

The wonderful milking Shorthorn, Melba XV. of Darbalara, on Friday completed a 365 days' test under official auspices, and during that time…

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Butter Position. Storage Supplies Affect Price

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 6

The butter position continues the subject of daily discussion. There are some men interested in the trade who see signs of an approaching increase…

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Wheat Silos. Bulk Handling Economical

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 11

Despite the fact that a very large amount of money has been expanded by the State Government on the construction of silos throughout the…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 2

Most rates were improved somewhat at Alexandria market yesterday, owing to a small yarding. Wheaten chaff rose. 16/ to £7 lucerne hay sold to £8/15/…

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Agricultural. Vegetables of the Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 14

Although every attention be given to the working of the soil it will be found insufficient to make available the large quantities of plant-food required for so…

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Dairying. Hugging of Cows. a Profitable Winter Practice

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 14

Winter is at hand, and it is again seasonable to remind dairy-farmers of the benefits attaching to the rugging of their cows. Farmers who rug their…

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Federal Pact. Farmers Postpone Decision. Special Meetings to Be Called

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 6

The Australian Farmers' Faderal Organisation, has decided to postpone its final decision regarding the election compact between the Nationalists…

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Federal Agreement Attflude of Farmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 June 1924 · page 11

Much importance is attached to the discussion by the Australian Partners Federal organisation on Monday regarding the agreement between Mr…

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Raymond Terrace. Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 June 1924 · page 4

The forty-second half-yearly report and balance-sheet of the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Company, Limited, shows that…

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Cattle From Blanford

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 24 June 1924 · page 4

Demand for prime cattle was well maintained at Homebush last Thursday, but other classes showed irregularity, right to the close of the…

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