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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 26 of 151

Butter Output

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 3

The Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured for the month of January, 388,583lbs of butter. Suppliers were paid at the…

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Approaching Cattle Sales

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 4

Messrs A. H. M'Arthur and Co. announce their second cattle sale for the current season at the Armidale Municipal yards on Wednesday, March 2…

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Wheat Marketing

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 7

Mr Henry W. Wood, one of the Canadian wheat growers who recently visited Australia to look into conditions of the wheat industry here, was asked…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 10

At the Wanganul wool sale (N.Z.) there was animated competition, Bradford and Germany being the chief buyers. The trend of the…

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Sheep on the Fallows

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

Most farmers nowadays are fully awake to the value of sheep on the fallows as a means of keeping, down the reed growth, and, reducing the…

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Manager, Branxton Dairy Co. Ltd. the Butter Factory. (To the Editor.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 4

Sir,—As I expected, "Shareholder" has squibbed my challenge re Mr Moxey opening the share list. As the hospital should be richer by £20, I am…

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Agricultural. for Buxt-free Wheat Crops. Efficacy of the Copper Carbonate Treatment

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 6

Bunt is a serious pest in wheat, and growers should insure the quality of their product by preventive treatment. Millers find bunt in…

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P.d.s. Column Empire Butter Position

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 7
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The recently published report of the Imperial Economic Committee, which sat a London, dealing with dairy produce, is not in any way pessimistic as…

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Wool Sales. Sydney Market Brisk

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 1

Wool sales were held on 23rd inst at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,159 bales, and the sales,…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory. the Half-yearly Meeting. Unfavourable Season

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 6

The fortieth half-yearly meeting of the Bowthorne Butter Factory, Ltd., was held at the company's office, Morpeth, yesterday afternoon…

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Canadian Wheat. High Standard Menaced. Legislation Recommended. Ottawa, Feb. 25

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 7

The mixing in transit of inferior varieties of wheat with Marquis wheat, has so menaced the standard of the whole Canadian crop abroad…

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Live Stock. Safeguarding Farm Stock. the Value of an Isolation Paddock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

Every dairy farmer should have a small paddock where he can keep a best absolutely away from all other cattle. Then, every them he…

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Farm Engineering Rural Sanitation Advice to Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

The necessity for as high a standard of sanitation in rural districts as in towns is essential if the health of the community is to be maintained points…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 6

Dullness prevailed at the Alexandria forage market Prices generally were unchanged. Oaten hay sold to £8/10/ per ton privately. The…

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Farmer Killed Run Over by Motor Lorry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 5

John Brown, aged 67 years, a farmer, of Cattai, near Windsor, received terrible injuries to the head at Cattai last evening, when he was…

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Six Murders. Polish Farmer Charged. London, Feb. 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 12

A Warsaw message states that Mestirim a wealthy Polish farmer, has been arrested at Rozan, and accused o fsix murders. Mestirim was living…

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Russian Dairying Industry

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 February 1927 · page 7

Reference in the foregoing to likely Siberian competition makes the following facts of interest. Prior to the world war, the butter industry of…

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Show Cattle Causes Excitement

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 February 1927 · page 4

Four Guernsey cattle consigned from Picton to West Maitland for the show caused some excitement when being unloaded. Officials of…

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Pastoral. Sheep Numbers. Argument Is Settled

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 March 1927 · page 4

Is the argument settled between the Stock Branch and the Government Statistician as to how many sheep there are in New South Wales? Mr. Max…

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