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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,508 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 69 of 126

Butter Factory

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 1

The output of butter from the local factory for the month of July totalled 28 long. Cold nights are interfering with production…

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Aberdeen News Butter Factory

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 8

The output of butter from the Aberdeen Factory for the month of July totalled 28 tons. Cold nights are interfering with production…

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Dairying. a Wonderful Cow. And a Unique Butter-fat Record

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 6

"The world record established by the Milking Shorthorn cow, Melba XV, is one of which not only dairymen, but tho people generally of New South…

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Muswellbrook Favored Amalgamation of Butter Factories

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 3

A prolonged discussion took place at the last meeting of the Aberdeen branch of the P. P. Union regarding the advantage of the…

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Amalgamation of Butter Factories Conference at Muswellbrook

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 7

A deputation from the Aberdeen branch of the Primary Producers' Union a few days ago waited on the directors of the Muswelllbrook…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 August 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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Wool Market Prospects. the Value Of, Local Mills

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 3

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Financial conditions may not be quite so buoyant as could be wished. But apart from that…

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Land Tax Farmers Urge Abolition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 2

At the Farmers and Settlers' Conference, Mr. Grogan (Galong), in moving: "That conference is in favour of the abolition of the Federal land tax,"…

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German Farmers. Ready to Come to Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 4

An officer of the German freighter Westfalen, which has arrived at Sydney from Hamburg, said that if they were permitted, German farmers…

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Dairying Industry

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 2

To discuss the marketing of dairy produce and the material improvement of the dairying industry, the Prune Minister (Mr. Bruce) has arranged for representatives…

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Latest Telegrams. Parliamentary. Farmers' Conference. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 2

The Assembly rose at 2 o'clock this morning. The Trustees of the Public Reserves Enabling Bill was passed through Committee. An|…

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Cleanliness in Dairying. Care of the Utensils

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 August 1924 · page 6

As the great majority of the defects of milk and milk products arise through lack of cleanliness, this simple virtue is of particular importance in…

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Wool Sales

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 August 1924 · page 6

Fair business was done at the wool sales, with an upward tendency in merinos…

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Pastoral. Fat Lamb Raising. Departmental Experiments

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1924 · page 9

For a number of years the Department of Agriculture has been demonstrating at different experiment farms in the wheat belt what a profitable…

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Wheat Claims. the 1916-17 Pool. Farmers to Go to Court

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1924 · page 6

The Farmers and Settlers' Association Conference, by a substantial majority, decided to fight, the Government in the courts on the question of…

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Bounty on Cattle. Federal Bill Passed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1924 · page 11

In the House of Representatives Mr. Anstey (Vic.) resumed the debate on the bill to grant an export bounty of 10/ a head on cattle. He…

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Butter Industry Production and Marketing. Both Need Bettering

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1924 · page 4

In expressing his disappointment at the inaction of the Federal Government with respect to the stabilisation proposals, Mr. McRac, the president of the Primary Producers' Union, is reported to have said At all conferences, and in all the presentations of the case of…

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Dairy Industry. Plight of Farmers. Preference in Federal House

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1924 · page 9

The plight of dairy farmers, owing to unremunerative returns for produce, was emphasised in the House of Representatives by Mr. Corser (Q.), who…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1924 · page 2

No change was manifest at Alexandria market yesterday; when a short yarding was disposed of at late rates. Business was mostly done by private…

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Forestry. Proposals by Farmers' Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 August 1924 · page 7

Two resolutions under the heading "Forestry" were carried by the Farmers and Settlers' Conference, One suggested encouragement being given…

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