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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

2,490 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 82 of 125

Sale of Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 August 1925 · page 4

Messrs E. W. Sparke and James Kirkwood, auctioneers in conjunction, sold at their offices, Campbell's Hill, this afternoon, in the estate of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Pastoral. Dipping and Shearing

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 4

It is necessary to dip the sheep regularly at from one month to six weeks after shearing. Where the flock is not sufficiently large to…

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Denman Butter Deductions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 4

The Denman Co-operative Daily Co., Ltd, has distributed the sum of £4730, being a payment at the rate of one penny per pound for all better…

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Restrictions, on Cattle Importation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 4

Roce[?]y a statement was made that in all, probabillty the traffic in cattle from Great Britain to Australia would reopen, and that October would be…

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The Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 2

Wool sales were continued in Sydney on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of last week. On Tuesday, the selling brokers were the…

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Wool Sales. Fourth Series in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 3

The fourth series of wool sales was commenced in Sydney on Monday, when an average selection, totalling 6006 bales, was offered at auction. Of these 5392 were sold. While private…

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Distribution of Export Butter Deductions Amounting to £4,730

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 2

The Deiiiuan Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., has distributed the sum of £4730, being a payment at the rate of one penny per lb for all butter…

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One Farm. and 870 Applicants

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 1

Eight hundred and sevently applications were received for a homestead farm in the parish of Dumaresq. This constitutes a record for Warialda…

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Muswelibbook Co-operative Dairy Company

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 1

The annual meeting of the above company is advertised to take place at the factory on the 31st instant, at 11.30 a.m." We understand that the…

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Australian Dairy Council Meeting in Brisbane

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 3

A meeting of the Australian Dailry Coundl was held in Brisbane, representatives bieing present from all the States. Reports were received from…

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Amalgamation. Coastal Farmers and Berrima. Important Decision. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 5

At an extraordinary general meeting of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society to-day, it was unanimously decided to amalgamate with…

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Dairying. Better Bulls. Made Available Through Co-operation

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 4

Closely associated with the need for cow-testing as a means to more profitable dairying is the necessity for improvement of the herds by…

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Armed Man Dairyman' S Wife Threatened. (By Telegraph.) Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 2

While Stanley Gray, a dairyman, of Black Rock, was out delivering milk at 4 o'clock this morning an armed man visited his home, held up Mrs Gray,…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 4

The following applications for patents connceted with fanning and pastoral have been accepted at the Commonwealth Patent Office,…

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Rush for Farms

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 August 1925 · page 4

The Grafton Land Board conducted a ballot for three homestead farms, comprising land recently acquired from the Aborigines' Board…

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Disastrous Fires. Wool Shed Destroyed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 August 1925 · page 7

A wool shed at Terrick Station (Q,), on the Barcoo River, was totally destroyed by fire together with 1300 lambs six bales of wool, machinery, and…

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Rush for Farms. Land Hunger at Deniliquin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 August 1925 · page 7

A rusk has set in for Crown homestead farms. One thousand five. hundred and fifty-seven application have been lodged for thirty-one homestead…

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Homebush Stock Sales. Prime Cattle and Sheep Unaltered. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 4

Winchcombe Carson Ltd., report—Cattle 2900 cattle yarded the bulk medium to useful quality Prime were unaltered others weaker At the…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 4

The Australian, Mereantile, Land and Finance Co., Ltd., states:— "During the past week' competition has been strong on all fine qualitied…

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Butter Market. Reported Undercutting in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 7

Retailers continue to show c[?] in their purchase of butter as they know that the next movement in prices must be in their favour. It is reported that…

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