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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

2,490 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 83 of 125

Butter Championship. Auckland Winter Exhibition World Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 2

The world's, butter championship competition promoted be the Auckland winter exhibition committee was won by a New Zealand factory viz., the…

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Wool Scheme. Further Adverse Decisions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 2

Practically all the branches of the Victorian Pastoralists Association have rejected Sir John Diggins scheme for the stabilisation of wool…

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Wheat Quiet. Flour for the East

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

Wheat was again quiet and quotation were unchanged Parcels of bulk were offered at 6/3 per bushed but buyers ideas were 1 below that…

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Wool Sales. Firm Market in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 3

The market at Sydney wool sales on Wednesday was firm and unchanged. Of the 6490 bales offered 5774 were sold. Private sales totalled…

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Wheat Options. Quotations in Chicago. New York, August 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 5

Chicago wheat options are quo[?] at September 1600 cents December 160[?] and May 163[?]…

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Broadcasting. Farmer's Service. This Evenings Programme

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 August 1925 · page 3

6.30.—The chimes of 2F.C. 6.35.—The "Hello Man," talks to the children 7.15.—Dalgety's market reports (wool wheat stock) fruit and…

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Pastoral. a Parasite Of, Sheep. the Nodular Worm

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 6

The nodular worm (Oesophagostomum columbianum) is the worm responsible for the condition called nodular disease of the intestines, or…

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Insurance of Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 3

Sir,—A circular has been broadcastd requesting woolgrowers to adopt a certain combination policy of sheets back and "whilst in,…

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Sheep Raising on the Coast

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 4

Sheep-raising has proved such a profitable and attractive occupation in most part of New South Wales Unit the pro[?]sects of a possible extension of the…

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Wheat Output. Quiet in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 7

Wheat continued quiet with bulk parcels offered at 6/3 per bushel, but with buyers disinclined to pay more than 6/2 1/2. Fanners' lots wore purchased…

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Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory Co., Ltd

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 2

Attention is drawn to the advt. culling the 20th annual meeting of shareholders for 29th inst. It will be noted that the Company is…

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Agricultural and pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 6

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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Farmers' Column

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 6

An amusing incident occurred during the hearing of valuation appeals at Coolangatta recently. An appellant, who is a fairly big property…

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Coastal Farmers. Amalgamation Proposal Carried

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 10

The annual meeting of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, was held at the Chamber of Commerce Building, Mr. William…

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The School Farm

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 2

Thanks to the efforts of Mr. E J. Sherwood we are happy to say that the ploughing at the farm has been started. A Fordson tractor is…

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Inquest on Fires. Milton Farm Outbreak

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 2

At the local Court House, on Wednesday, the Coroner, Mr. W. T. Seaward, held an inquiry upon the origin and cause of the fire which…

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The Lucerne Crop. Cultivation and Early Mowing

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 6

Lucerne sown in autumn should receive no cultivation until the following spring at earliest. The young plants are tender, and will…

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Musk Rat Farms

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 21 August 1925 · page 9

To-day, we are told, there are between 30 and 40 farmers [?]ling foxes alone on Vancouver Island, while in all parts of Canada and the…

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Pastoral. Little Prospect of Extension. Sheep-raising on the North Coast

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 6

Sheep-raising has proved such a profitable and attractive occupation in most parts of New South Wales that the prospect of a possible extension of…

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Butter Market. Prescott's Weekly Review

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 14

Sydney: Even with the limited supplies of choicest fresh available the market has been dull at 186/8 per cwt. Retail holders of cold storage stocks…

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