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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

2,506 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 45 of 126

Feeding Value of Silage in Comparison with the Original Green Crop

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 May 1926 · page 3

It used to be thought (writes Mr. Harold W. Heese, Instructor in Agriculture to the Auckland Education Board, in the "New Zealand…

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Claim and Counter-Claim Farmers at Loggerheads

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 18 May 1926 · page 5

Claude Hayes and Arthur Lever came to legal loggerheads in the Cessnoek Small Debts Court this morning, when the former claimed…

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Butter Market. Price Higher Than London Values

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 May 1926 · page 3

Butter is selling steadily. Wintry conditions in some of the producing centres are affecting the output. Private cable messages from London…

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Values Unchanged. Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 May 1926 · page 3

A selection of wool below average quality was offered at the Sydney wool sales on Tuesday. Of the 8526 bales offered 6687 were sold, while private…

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Wheat Quiet. Mill Offals in Demand

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 May 1926 · page 6

Wheat continues steady, but quiet, with no change in value levels. Bagged wheat was quoted yesterday on the basis of 5/8 to the grower…

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Wool Sales Sydney Market Unchanged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1926 · page 7

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,825 bales, and the sales, including private…

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Terribly Injured Caught in Belting. Accident on Dairy Farm. Murwillumbah

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 May 1926 · page 5

George Lamson received terrible injuries when his clothing was caught in the Belting of a milking machine at his father's farm at Dangay…

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Hypnosis or Drugs? Plight of Gilgandra Farmer and Wife

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 May 1926 · page 2

A Gilgandra fanner named Talbot, together with his wife, is at present in Orange Mental Hospital, apparently suffering from the effects of hyposis…

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Red Drought. Queensland's Plight. Sheep and Cattle Losses

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 4
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

Drought losses in Queensland, already very heavy, continue to mount up, and the outlook over wide areas of country is bad. It is rare for a…

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Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 4

Messrs Prescott Ltd. report as follows under date 15, May, 1926:— Sydney.—Production continues to fall off in some centres but in others districts…

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Cattle Losses

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 4

One station running. 30,000 cattle, that made up one of the finest herds in Queensland, was reduced to 8000, and was obliged to sell…

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Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 8

The New Zealand Loan and M.A. Co., Ltd., report 19th May: We held our final sale of the regular wool-selling season on Monday last,…

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Butter Making. Problem Discussed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 9

When opening the thirty-third annual conference of the Australian Butter and Cheese Factories Managers and Secretaries' Association,…

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Butter and Cheese. the Market Position

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 3

The recent drop of 1/2d per pound in the price of butter was not sufficient to shut out the New Zealand product, and its is stated that large distributors…

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Wheat Market. Quiet in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 4

Wheat continues steady, but with an absence of movement. Farmers' lots, bagged, were still nominally quoted on Thursday at 5/8…

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Fine Wool Wanted. Position Healthy

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report 20th May:— Though the busy season on the Sydney wool market did not finish under the extremely…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 3

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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New Dairy Stock

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 5

Thanks to the kindly offices of Mr. J. H. Farley we(Gloucester "Advocate") had a trip to Dungog a few days ago, the occasion being…

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Winter School for Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 May 1926 · page 2

Arrangements have been made for the annual Winter School for farmers to be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College, this year,…

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