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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1925

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Butter Market. Reported Undercutting in Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 8

Retailers continue to show caution in their purchases of butter, as they know that the next movement in prices must be in their favour. It is reported that…

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Butter Championship. Auckland Winter Exhibition World Competition

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 8

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

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Disastrous Fires. Wool Shed Destroyed

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

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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Wool Scheme. Further Adverse Decisions

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 5

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

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World's Butter Championship Contest in New Zealand. Singleton a Competitor

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 1

Awards were announced on Wednesday of the first competition for the world's butter championship conducted at Auckland Winter Show…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 7

The forage section of the Alexandria market saw quiet business at practically unvaried rates, Choice and prime grades were scarce, and buyers were…

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The Lucerne Crop Cultivation and Early Mowing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 9

Lucerne sown in autumn should receive no cultivation until the following spring at earliest. The young plants are tender, and will not stand rough…

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Dairying. Food Value of Cheese. Popularity As Offected by Quality

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 9

Cheese is a food second to none and cheaper than any commodity (or group of them) of similar food value. It extremely high food value, both as…

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Amalgamation. Coastal Farmers and Berrima. Important Decision. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 16

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 Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 6

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

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Rush for Farms. Land Hunger at Deniliquin

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 3

A rush has set in for Crown home stead farms. One thousand five hundred and fifty-seven applications have been lodged for thirty-one homestead…

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The Singleton Argus Saturday, August 22nd, 1925. LOCAL & General News Expert to Lecture on Dairying Industry

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 August 1925 · page 6

The sub-district council of the Agricultural Bureau has invited an export from the Department of Agriculture to visit Singleton district and lecture on…

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Sale of Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 August 1925 · page 4

Mr. E. W. Sparke sold for Mr. Thos Taylor, at the Maitland stock sales to-day, diary farm on the Paterson River, of about 298 acres, being…

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Wool Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 4

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report 20th August: Conditions during the week in regard to competition have been equal to the previous…

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Butter Industry. Basic Wage Suggested

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 3

At a meeting of the Tweed District Council of the Primary Producers Union, Dr. Goldsmid said they had a good case on which to ask the State…

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Insurance of Wool

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 1

Last week we referred to the proposed combination of "sheeps' back " and "whilst in store until paid for" policy, and as we then…

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Chicago Wheat. New York, Aug. 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 5

The Chicago wheat options for September are quoted at 150 7-8 cents; for December 158 7-8; and for May [?] cents…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 5

These notes are issued every week under the personal supervision of the Honorable the Minister for Agriculture and are based mainly on the…

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Cattle Diseases. Use of Tuberculin. Restricted to Authorised Persons

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 7

In the "Government Gazette" of August 14 last a regulation was issued dealing with the use of tuberculin as an aid to the diagnosis of disease in…

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The Singleton Argus Tuesday, August 25th, 1925. Local Cattle

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 August 1925 · page 2

Good to prune beef realised 32/ to 38/ per 1001bs. at Homebush last Thursday. The trend of values for other classes of beef, however, was…

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