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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

2,490 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 74 of 125

Dairy Industry Short Lease Farms Menace to Local Prosperity. No Inducement to Farmer to Provide for Future. Marketing Problem

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 3

"One of the greatest menaces to the dairying industry in this part of the State is the short lease farm." Mr. L. T Machines, State dairy…

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Farmers' Column

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 3

At a conference between representatives of the Sheep-shearing Machinery Experts' Association of New South Wales' and those of the…

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Good Dairy Washes. Three Useful Formulae

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

The following wash is used by many dairy-farmers, and has been proved satisfactory at Hawkesbury Agricultural College:—Mix…

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Miscellaneous Self-help in Farming. a Useful Organisation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 31 July 1925 · page 3

"There is not a pot of gold at the end or the legislative rainbow. There is no magic power in legislation as a panacea for agricultural…

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Agriculture. Crop Rotation. Its Application to the Wheat Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 9

How rotation may simplify certain problems confronting the wheat-grower was discussed in those notes last week. Let us now consider with wheat under…

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Dairy Produce. Cheese and Butter Exports

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 14

During the week ended on July 18 159 boxes of butter were exported from the Commonwealth, 5181 boxes going to the United Kingdom and…

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Denmark' Butter Trade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 4

The latest London butter quotations discloses that Denmark retains pride of place at 210/ per cwt: New Zealand 200/ and Australia 196/ per cwt…

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Wheat Pools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 4

The highly controversial question of wheat pools, voluntary or compulsory, will be raised next week at the annual conference of the Farmers and…

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The Butter Industry—amalgamation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 8

The amalgamation of the butter factories to lesson expenditure is a subject that is now receiving wide attention, and at the present time is…

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Australian Butter Sales at Wembley

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 14

Senator Wilson, Minister for Marketing and Migration, received a cable message on Saturday that 7396lb of choicest Australian butter, bearing the…

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Cattle Export. Freights on Beef

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 8

A discussion took place at the Australian Meat Council meeting on the subject of the export of live cattle to tho Philippine Islands, and it was…

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Commercial Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 10

Australian Mcreantile Land and Finance Company Ltd., report: The auctions reopened on Monday last in this centre when a great deal of…

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Wheat Unchanged. Flour for Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 6

Wheat showed no change in Sydney Holders of bulk parcels asked 6/1 per bushel, but would-be buyers did not offer more than 6/0 1/2. Little…

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Wheat Pool. Opposition at Wagga

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 14

At a conference of Riverina district farmers, held in Wagga, lengthy discussion took place over the wheat pool, and the general opinion was against…

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Wool Sales. Best Features Maintained

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 8

At the Sydney wool sales the selection was a good one. There were 7021 bales offered at auction and 6589 sold. Private sales totalled 931…

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Chicago Wheat. New York, July 28

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 2

Chicago wheat options are quoted as follows: July 153¾ cents., September 131¾, December 133 1-8…

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Wool Production. Increasing in New Zealand

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 16

Dalgety's "Wool Review" shows the actual sales in the Dominion last season as 462,795 bales, leaving a balance of 60,639 unsold, of which it is believed…

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Agricultural. Wheat Problems As Simplified by Rotation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 7

Many of the problems that confront the wheat-grower may be solved by rotation of crops. Better illustration of this can hardly be furnished than…

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Russian Wheat. Flooding Britain. London, July 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 August 1925 · page 13

Mr. E. F. Wise, economic adviser on foreign trade to the Central Union of Russian Co-operative Societies, announces that a Russe-British grain…

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