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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

2,490 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 5 of 125

Moisture in Butter

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 4

Mr. S. F. Voysey, of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited. writes:—The facts disclosed in the paper read…

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Cattle Thieves Busy

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 10

Cattle thieves are still busy between Tabalum and Tenterfield, according to statements made at the last P.P. meeting at the Tableland…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report: Last week we ventured to predict that mid-December values would be fully maintained on…

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Food Prices. Wheat Supplies. London, Jan, 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 4

Giving evidence before the Food Commission, Mr. Smith, of the Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, Glasgow, said that Australia showed…

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Regulation of Wool Supplies. Delays Are Vexatious. But Ensure Full Values

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 5

At this period of the wool-selling season the delays in bringing individual dual clips on the market create an ever-green grievance, but they are…

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Police Court. Dairymen Fined

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 4

Fore Mr. C. A. Arnold, P.M.— At the local police court ta-day be-John Richard Jones and Albert Smith were each fined £4 and…

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Flood Damage. Crops Suffer. Railway Traffic Interrupted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 2

Further rain in Albury makes a total of 732 points since Monday night. Extensive damage has been dene to roads, bridges and culverts,…

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Fodder, Crops, and Silos

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 8

"Whether we like it or not," said Mr. R. E. Alcorn, a well-known Northern River farmer recently, "the farmers on the North Coast will…

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"Dont's," for Dairymen

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 January 1925 · page 6

Don't withhold feed from young growing animals when they want it. Don't allow your breeding animals to become so thin that you…

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New Butter Record. Jersey's Nine Months Yield

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 14

A new nine months' Jersey butter fat record for the British Empire has been established by Mr. J. Hutchinson's Babs of Somerville, Vic, the…

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Wool Packs. Question of Weight

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 11

The Manilla local committee of the. Grazers Association recently asked that the association should go thoroughly into the question of woolpacks,…

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Butter Market. Heavy Supplies. Big Slump. London, Jan. 8

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 12

Butter slumped heavily owing to the large quantities afloat. It is estimated that the total supplies from all sources to arrive in the next six…

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Wheat Harvest. Estimated Yield. 45 Million Bushels for Export

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 3

The Government Statistician (Mr. H. A. Smith) estimates the current wheat harvest at slightly under 61 million bushels. Mr. Smith has now…

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Wheat Harvest. 60,832,000 Bushels. Second Highest in State's History

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 9

The Government Statistician (Mr. H. A. Smith) has estimated the yield of wheat for the present season at 60,832,000 bushels, and the average at…

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Food Prices. Wheat Market. Speculators Keep Down Prices. London, Jan. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 2

Mr. Broomhall, the Liverpool grain trade statistician, gave remarkable evidence before the Food prices, Commission. He said that…

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Bulk Trucks. Farmers Complain of Shortage

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 2

Up to Saturday last the total deliveries made in the Barellan district numbered 272,857 bags, of which 176,567, bags went into the silos. There…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 6

With the possibility of substantially reduced yardings, on account of general rain in country districts, buyers wore operating freely at…

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Dairying. Capacity in This Cow. Some Indications

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 9

since 60 per cent of the feed consumed by the cow is required for Her own maintenance, the interest of her feeder centres in the remaining 40 per…

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Farmer Fined. for Flogging a Boy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 6

At the Children's Court at Bunbury. (W.A.), Mr. M. J. Brookman, a well-known farmer, was charged with ill-treating a boy aged 15, taken…

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New Zealand Dairying. American University Commission Inquiry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 January 1925 · page 11

The commission sent by the University of Wisconsin (U.S.A.) to examine the methods of agriculture and dairying in New Zealand has…

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