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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

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Bulk Handling. Victorian Farmers Interested

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 8

Victorian farmers are vastly interested in the arrangements for the bulk handling of wheat in New South Wales and a board has been…

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Gored by Bull. Farmer and Son Attacked One Succumbs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 3

A tragic occurrence is reported from Nelson (N.Z.), a farmer's son being gored to death by a neighbor's bull while the farmer himself also…

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Dried Fruits. and Dairy Produce

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 3

The Dried Fruit Exports Control Board met and appointed Mr. W. C. F. Thomas, representative of the Commonwealth Government, as…

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Turnips on the Tablelands. Value As a Catch Crop

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 7

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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Tractors and Modern Farming. Australian Experience

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 4

There is very divided opinion about the advantage of the use of tractors in farming in Australia due to the very varied conditions in different places. In some places their use is of far greater advantage than in others…

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A Farmer's Fallaoy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1925 · page 7

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

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Model Dairy Farm. Essential to Success

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1925 · page 4

Our attention has recently been called to a very interesting account of a dairy farm in one of the new dairying areas of Queensland that rejoices in the name of "Brundah," a native name for "Happy Home." We believe, this to be typical of many hundreds of similar homes…

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Fat Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 3

About 1000 penned, being a light supply. Consignments consisted of wethers, ewes and lambs, ranging in quality from medium to…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 3

The eleventh aeries of Sydney wool, sales opened yesterday, when, a total offering of 8527 bales was presented. The Co-op. Wool and…

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Cattle Market. Some Great Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 2
Also in The Scone Advocate

The secretary of the Farmers' and Graziers' Co-op. Co., Ltd., writes:— Last week we sold at Homebush 989 fat cattle from 53 owners, being…

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Maitland Stock Sales. Fat Cattle

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 3

About 1200 yarded, being a fairly heavy supply Consignments were made up of all descriptions, but the quality, taken on the…

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Butter Storage. Queenland Government Cold Stories

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 7

The storage of butter in the Government new cold stores at Hamilton, on the Brisbune River, commenced on Monday, when approximately 300 boxes…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 6

These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the [?]orable the Minister for Agriculture and are based mainly on the…

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Position of Wool Stocks. Future Values

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 1

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd.; report. 5th March:— The wool market has shown some decided changes since the new…

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Wool Arrivals. Amount to Be Disposed of

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 7

Up to February 28 the arrivals at stores of the present season's wool amounted to 1,891,332 bales. It is estimated that the receipts at stores…

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Further Weakness. General Decline at Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 3

Wool sales were resumed in Sydney 011 Monday, when catalogues covering 8527, bales were offered. The disposals, including private transactions,…

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London Wool Sales Decline Anticipated. (Router's Cable.) London, Sunday Night

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 3

The wool correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph" anticipates the opening sales on Tuesday will show a decline of 12½ to 15 per cent. in Merinos and fine…

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Dairying. on the North Coast. Improvement of Paspalum Pastures

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 6

Attention was drawn in a recent report of the senior dairy inspector situated on the central North Coast to the growth of paspalum on many…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 March 1925 · page 2

The following applications for patents connected with farming and pastoral industries have been accepted at the Commonwealth Patent Office,…

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