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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

2,490 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 21 of 125

Butter Output

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 6

The Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., during January manufactured 195 tons of butter, as compared with 92 tons for the…

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Butter Industry. Export Trade. Keen Competition

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 4

Messrs. Walker and Joyce, representatives of the Queensland butter Industry recently returned from England, in giving an account of their stewardship at Ipswich, stressed some of the points that they considered needed special attention in connection with the export trade…

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Intense Heat. Cattle Die at Murwillumbah

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 14

Intense heat has been experienced in Murwillumbah. Three of the cattle in the saleyards died, as the result of the heat, and on Saturday morning…

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High Prices. Sale of Merino Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 3

Remarkable prices were obtained for merino sheep at the dispersal sale of the Canowie (S.A.) stud flock, Canowie is the property of…

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Wheat Advances. Active Market Overseas

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 2

Influenced by very active markets overseas wheat advanced sharply yesterday, shippers advancing their limits by [?] to 6/9, equal to 6/2 per…

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Damaged Wheat. Over Million Bushels

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 11

It is estimated that ove a million bushels of damaged or "shot" wheat was garnered during the recent harvest…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory. Half-yearly Meeting. Successful Period

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 6

The half-yearly meeting of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Ltd., was held at Morpeth yesterday, Mr. J. J. Pearse presiding…

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Seed Wheat. Use of Damaged Grain Deprecated

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 16

Information received by the Department of Agriculture indicates that in a number of cases farmers who have harvested weather…

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Agricultural. Super-phosphate for Wheat. Increased Use in the Central West

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 9

Interesting comments on the changing attitude of wheat-growers to manure are made by the senior agricultural instructor in the central-western…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 7

There was a lighter yarding at the Alexandria market yesterday, and business was fairly quiet. The price of forage showed no variation from…

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Turnips on the Tablelands. Value As a Catch Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 9

The cheapness of the seed, and the ease with which a crop of swedes can be grown in the tableland areas, offer considerable inducements to…

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A Farmer's Fallacy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 9

There is a fallacy, almost never challenged, says Garner Garratt in the Saturday Evening Post, that whatever the farmer grows, wherever he…

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Citrus Fruits. Heavy Crop Expected. Export Bounty Desired

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 11

A meeting of the committee of management of the New South Wales Citrus Association was held at the central office, Sydney. Delegates were…

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Monaro Estates. Making Farms Available

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 11

Recently the Government purchased three large estates in the Monaro district for the purpose of closer settlement. The estates are Glenbrook…

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Dairy Produce. Export Control Act

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 16

Senator Wilson, Minister for Markets, stated that boards of directors, of co-operative companies are entitled to elect nine members of the…

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Dairying. Silage on the Coast. an Improved Type of Stack

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 7

Of the three distinct methods of conserving green fodder in the form of silage, that of stacking in the open is generally regarded as the most…

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Dairy Products

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1925 · page 5

The award for box of butter, made for export, went to Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory, with Gloucester District Co-operative Factory 2nd…

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Sheep Unaltered: Cattle Better

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 4

Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., report,—Sheep: 7,000 penned. The market was unaltered on the reduced rates, Plain quality sheep were well in…

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Farming in the Gundagai District

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 March 1925 · page 4

Two pictures that are making their appearance in agricultural journals are worthy of note. One is of in huge hay shed with which is the…

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Rise in Butter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 3 March 1925 · page 5

The wholesale price of butter was advanced 1d a lb as from Saturday. The Butter Advisory Committee, in making the announcement, issues the…

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