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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

2,490 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 32 of 125

Still Lifeless. the Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 6

Another week opened to a wheat market that is pratically lifeless oversea conditions were such that farmers' lots were still unquoted, and…

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A Record. Transhipment of Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 3

According to figures issued by the Railway Department, up to March 21, 9,421,673 bags, or approximately 28,263,219 bushels of wheat had been…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 1

These notes are issued every week by direction of the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the…

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Live Stock. Stomach Worms in Sheep. Suggestions for Treatment

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 1

If taken in time the stomach worm (the commonest and probably the most destructive of the worms infesting sheep in this State) is…

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Heavy Butter Yield. 41b. in a Day by a Guernsey

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 1

The wonderful return of 41h. of butter was made by Parson's Red Rose XXI of Wollongbar in the one-day butter-fat competition held in…

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Denman Co-operative Dairy Company Ltd. Half-yearly General Meeting. a Profitable Six Months

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 1

The Denman Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., held their half—yeary general meeting of shareholders in Day's Hall Denman, on 26th March, at 2.30…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 March 1925 · page 4

The following applications for patents connected with farming and pastoral inventions have been accepted at the Commonwealth Patent office:—…

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Butter Position. Price Reduction in Victoria

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 April 1925 · page 3

When the Advisory Committee of the New South Wales Primary Producers Union increased the price of butter by a halfpenny per pound last…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Sheep Firmer Prime Cattle Better. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 5

winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report Sheep, 18,000 penned, the bulk medium to good quality. The market opened very firm. Mutton made 4½d…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 April 1925 · page 4

Lucerne chaff was a shade firmer but other wise forage rates were practically unchanged at the Alexandria market yesterday. A fairly light…

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Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 9

The chief winners in the cattle section (Durhams and Polled Angus) were the Pickering Estate Co., Ltd and White Bros. Mr. E. Raby Moore…

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Butter Exhibit's

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 9

Mr. John Searl told our representative that the exhibits from the Muswellerook and Denman factories were absolutely the best he had ever…

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Pigs and Sheep

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 9

As in former years competition was very weak in the pig and sheep sections. The few that were there were of a good type. It is regrettable that…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 7

The New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., report 1st April: We are in receipt of advice from our Brisbane office to the effect that sales…

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Butter Marketing. (Continued from last week)

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 4

At the docks it usually takes six hours to fill a barge. Several are being filled simultaneously, and are despatched up the river to London bridge on the flood tide…

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Suspected Sheep-Stealing. Travelling Showman Fined

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 2

Messrs. H. Rowland and H. E. E. Garside, J's.P., occupied the Bench on Tuesday, when Michael Fisher, 18, was charged with…

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Wheat Silos. Bulk Handling Results

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 2

In a report by the Minister for Agriculture to the Primer on the bulk handling of wheat and the use made of the silos, it is shown that the quantity…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 8

These notes are issued every week by direction of the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 5

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

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Agricultural. the Sowing of Wheat. Timely Reminders for Growers

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 April 1925 · page 8

As much depends upon the time when the wheat is sown as upon the variety that is sown. As a general rule late-maturing…

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