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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

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Butter Factory Returns. Supplies Increasing. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 6

The quantity, of butter manufactured by Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., during November amounted to 127 tons, which is…

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Farm Produce. New Act in Operation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 4

From to-day will operate the Farm produce Agents Act and regulations, which require that every person trading as an agent in farm produce must…

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Dairyman Loses £130 Result of Nursing Money

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5

Before Mr C. W. Ostellelifle, dairyman, who lives 10 miles from Orange, went with. his family on New Year's Eve into town, he took precautions to…

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Burning of Crop Woman Committed for Trial

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 3

Mary Ann Preston, aged 63, was committed for trial at the Bathurst Police Court on a charge of having maliciously set fire to a standing crop belonging to…

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Tick in Cattle. Eradication Campaign

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Dunn) is to leave for the northern rivers district, in connection with the tick eradication campaign, in…

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Wool Sales. Values Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 2

Wool sales for the new year opened satisfactorily in Sydney yesterday. Values were firm for all descriptions at the closing rates of the…

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Wool Shipment. Allowance Discontinued

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 3

The allowance to shippers of 9d per bale on wool carried from Australian ports to the United Kingdom, via the Cape, has been discontinued…

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World's Wheat Supply Carry-over Forecasted

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 4

The last number of the "International Crop Report and Agricultural Statistics," published by the International Institute of Agriculture,…

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Mr. Bruce Toronto Activities a Butter Problem. Defence of Imperial Conference. Toronto, Jan. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

Mr. Bruce, upon his arrival here, was immediately taken to Government House, where he will be a guest until he leaves for Hamilton…

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Farmer Killed. Struck by Lightning

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 7

During a thunderstorm on Tuesday, at Lower Ulmarra, lighting killed Bennett William Blanch (43), dairy farmer, as he was leaning…

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Farmers' Burdens Piled Up by Laws. Tampered Pets of Politicians.' BATHURST

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 5

Bishop Long, in an onslaught on politicians, declares that men on the land are harassed in countless ways by laws passed by the Stats and…

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Wheat Markets. Shippers Reduce Offers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 January 1927 · page 9

New South Wales wheat growers, in declining to place their product on the market in anything like the quantity expected at this time of the…

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Aberdeen-angus Cattle Suitability for Export

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 3

In our last issue we referred to the notable success achieved on the Sydney market by drafts of Aberdeen-Angus cattle from "Edinglassie." This…

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Pastoral. New Year Outlook. Season and the Markets

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 8

What has 1927 in store for the grazier? No one can forecast for certain, and most of us have little faith in prophets it has been said that you…

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Wheat Pool. the Coming Referendum

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 7

The Government has the matter of taking a ballot of wheat-growers as to the constitution of the compulsory pool for next season well in hand…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes. for the Mast on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1927 · 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 Department…

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Pastoral. Poisoning Rabbits. the Thistle Root and Strychnine Method

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 3

Poisoning as a method of rabbit destruction has passed through many phases, from the days when phosphorised wheat and oats were used, to the…

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N.z. Butter. for Canada and U.s.a

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 7

Canada and the United States are buying Now Zealand butter at above London parity. The Arawa, leaving Auckland on…

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Wool Position Sound. German and British Trade

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 5

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Indications give no cause for uneasiness regarding the course of coming wool sales. The trade undoubtedly…

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The Dairymen of To-day. Pulling Together

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 7 January 1927 · page 7

During the last few weeks happenings in the dairying industry should give the "powers that be" food for much thought. The fact that the irritating stimulus to "divine discontent" has been somewhat abated by the wonderful falls of rain, that have soaked the drought-gripped pastures of Queensland and…

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