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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1924

2,508 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 79 of 126

Homebush Stock Sales. Cattle Market Rises. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 5

Wineheombe Carson, Ltd., report:—Sheep: 20,000 penned; useful and good quality. The market was the host seen for sometime. Mutton made…

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Wheat Prospects. Fifty Million Bushels. If Rain Falls in the Next Few Weeks. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 5

Mr. Buttenshaw, M.L.A., chairman of the voluntary Wheat Pool, who has travelled all over the State in the last few months, says that if rain…

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The Business of Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 7

Your business as a farmer must be to strive for the maximum output and a higher butterfat teat. Methodlcally drenching cach cow after calving with Sykes's Drench is a big…

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'Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 September 1924 · page 4

A small yarding was disposed of almost completely by private treaty at Alexandria market yesterday. No choice eaten was in evidence, and…

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Pastoral. Fodder Crops for Sheep. Pay Both Farmer and Grazier

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 6

There is no practice that assists more towards the increased productiveness of a sheepowner's property than the growing of suitable fodder crops, for…

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Standardising Butter

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 3

At the annual meeting of the shareholders of the Scone Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd., there was a good attendance and Mr. Sharpe, of the Coastal Farmers'…

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Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and M. A. Co., Ltd., report 3rd September:—The opening of the 1924-25 regular wool selling season took place in…

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Butter Factories Sectional Committee

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 3

The ballot for representatives for the above committee closed on Monday, 25th August, 1924. The ballot resulted as follows:—…

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Big Wheat Harvest

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 2

Mr. Buttenshaw, M.L.A., chairman of the Voluntary Wheat Pool, says if rain falls in the next few weeks the wheat harvest will probably…

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Wool Season's Prospects

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 6

Mr. George Aitken, Chairman of the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers of Australia, referring to the successful opening of the Brisbane…

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New Season's Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 4

Mr. George Aitken, chairman of the National Council for Wool Selling Broker's of Australia referring to the successful opening of the Brisbane…

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The Wool Season

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 3

The first consignment of wool to be sent from Muswellbrook was consigned to Sydney this week from "Balmoral."…

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Wheat Market. Bran Sells Freely

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 7

Wheat cased slightly on Thursday. Little was available and buyers not being keen the quotation for parcels was a nominal 6/ per bushel. Triffing,…

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Butter the Amalgamation Scheme. Factory Delegates to Meet

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 1

The proposal to bring about an amalgamation of butter factories for purposes outlined in last Friday's issue of the "Chronicle" is creating a good…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

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

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New Season's Wool Bright Prospects. Justified Optimism

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 4

The Secretary of Farmers' and Graziers' Co-op. writes:—As predicted in our previous reports, prospects are very bright for…

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Bright Wool Outlook. Private Inquiry Keen in Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson; Limited, report 28th August: Developments of the past week strengthen our previously exp[?]…

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Proposed Amalgamation Of Butter Factories a Gigantic Scheme. Dungog to Quirindi. Central Board to Control Annual Yield of 60,000 TONS

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 4

If the ambitions of some of the persons controlling the butter Industry in the Hunter and Gloucester districts can be realised some day…

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Farmers' Best Friend Death of Mr. C. J. McRAE. Primary Producers' Tribute. District Council Meeting Adjourns

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 5 September 1924 · page 1

When the quarterly meeting of the District Council of the Primary Producers' Union was about to meet at Muswellbrook yesterday, Mr. A. J…

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