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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1926

2,506 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 58 of 126

Farmers Protest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 June 1926 · page 5

Canowindra Farmers and Settlers' Association has decided to send a resolution to the executive in Sydney, strongly protesting against the…

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Butter Export. Commonwealth Gradings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 July 1926 · page 2

The Department of Trade and Customs, Dairy Branch, advises that during the week ended June 26 the commonwealth graders examined at…

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Annual Sheep Show. Rain Affects Attendance. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 July 1926 · page 5

The annual sheep show opened on the Agricultural Show Ground this morning, but owing to rain there was only a small attendance…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 July 1926 · page 4

Choice forage continued firm at the Alexandria saleyards owing to the short supplies to hand. No private sales of lucerne chaff were recorded…

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Share Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 July 1926 · page 5

The share-farmers' lot has been very much discussed, and it is reported that one lower North Coast landholder, with four families, working dairies on…

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Homebush Sales. Heavy Sheep Cheaper; Cattle Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 4

Pitt, Son and , Badgery, Ltd., report: Sheep: 35,000 penned. The market generally was unchanged, with heavy sheep a shade firmer. Good…

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Pastoral. Foot-rot in Sheep. Precautions for Its Control

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 3

Foot-rot in sheep being a disease to the development and spread of which rains and moisture ara most conducive, it is not surprising that…

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Big Sheep Purchase

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 4

Mr. E. M. Perron, of St. Aubins. Scone, has purchased in Queensland what he claims to be a record number of sheep in one deal. The purchase…

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Paterson Butter Factory Scheme

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 4

Messrs. J. Gately, J. Chesworth, J. J. Dooley, A. J. Ninness, W. A. Kepple, P. Murphy, R. Brown. H. Brodie, C. D. Horn, T. Hopson, and G…

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American Milk and Butter

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 4

The New York milk scandal which continues daily to disclose the grossest form, of corruption, to-day gained even wider notoriety on an announcement by the…

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Co-op. Butter Factory

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

The Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory notifies all policy holders with the Co-op. Insurance Co., through the factory, are held covered under…

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Brisbane Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. received the following wire from their Brisbane office: "Very good selection available opening Brisbane wool…

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Listless. the Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 3

The London market was reported to be casier, with no buyer. The local position continues practically at a standstill, Quotations for bagged lots…

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Sheep for Hospital. REALISES £2 6s

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 3

A sheep donated by Mr. S Watson and disposed of by auction on Saturday last in aid of the Wilson Memorial Hospital realised £2 6s, being bought…

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The Wool Position. Outlook Healhty

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. report: Apart from the autumn shorn wools forward from the far wast and north west, which were deep in staple,…

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Australian Butter. High Favour in Britain. Effective Marketing

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 7

General McArthur Onslow, who has carefully investigated the working of the Commonwealth Dairy Control Board, informed the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 3

These notes are Issued every week by direction of the Hon. the Minister for Agriculture, and are baaed mainly on the experience of the…

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Australian Butter. Stands High in Favour. London, July 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 5

Brigadier-General J. W. Macarthur Onslow, M.L.C., of New South Wales, has carefully investigated the working of the Commonwealth…

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Local and General. Farm Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 4

Mr. J. P. Idsteln reports having disposed of a dairy farm of 50 acres, and a farmlet, adjoining Maitland…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Co

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1926 · page 3

The forty-sixth half-yearily meeting of the company was held in the Oddfellows Hall, on Wednesday, when there was an attendance of 60 or 70…

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