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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 33 of 151

Dairying. Calf Rearing. Avoid Checks in Growth

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 6

The rearing of the calves is one of the most important activities on a dairy farm, for to a great extent it is on success in this that the standard of…

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Dairy Production. Last Month's Figures

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 2

For the month of February the Muswellbrook Dairy Co., Ltd., manufactured 87,388 lbs. choicest, and 3573 lbs. second grade butter, for which…

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Junior Farmers' Club. a Valuable Means of Rural Education

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 6

Those interested in agricultural education and progress will have noted with interest references in the Press to preliminary meetings of the…

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Price Control Abandoned by New Zealand Dairy Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 2

The Dairy Produce Export Control Board, after fully considering the market position of New Zealand butter and cheese, decided, by sis votes…

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Boys' Home Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 4

The Boys' Home Farm at Oakhampton, which has been acquired by the Church of England to carry on the training of boys after they…

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Dairying Cream Flavours. and the Problem of Their Control

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 6

To assist in understanding cream flavours, they may be divided into three main classes, namely: (1) Food flavours, (2) absorbed flavours…

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Farmer's Heavy Loss

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 March 1927 · page 2

Mr W. Beh, of Mitchell's Flat, a well-known farmer, suffered a severe loss on Friday afternoon, when five stacks of lucerne hay, comprising about…

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Unchanged. Sydney Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 4

Wheat continued unchanged in Sydney, the market being lifeless, Buyers' general limits were 4/5½ to 4/6 for bagged wheat in the…

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Wool Sales. Market in Sydney Firm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 4

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,335 bales, and the sales,…

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Butter and Cheese. Chaos in London Market. London, March 14

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 5

A firm owning 800 shops is reducing New Zealand cheese and butter a penny a pound, retail price, an a consequence of the Control Board'…

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London Wool Sales Advance in Prices. London, March 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 5

The wool sales opened to-day, 11,000 bales being offered. They were an excellent selection, practically all being sold. There was a…

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Return of the Horse Tractors on Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1927 · page 3

Under the heading, "The Return of the Horse,' the "Live Stock Journal" (England) publishes a brief report of an address given before…

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Homebush Sales. Cattle Firm: Sheep Better. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 4

Pitt, son and Badgery, Ltd., report:—Sheep. 27,686 penned, the quality a little better than of late. Grown sheep were 1/ dearer, others…

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London Sales. Wool Butter and Cheese. London, March 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 5

Fair sales of New Zealand butter were reported to-day at about 146/ to 148/ per cwt,; but big buyers are not operating. It is believed…

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Jersey's Butter Total

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 1

The principal of the Hawkesbury Agricultural College (Mr E. A. Southee) supplies further particulars of the milk and butter yields of "Miss Gold of…

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Cattle at Homebush

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 5

Good to prime beef made 29/ to 37/ per 100 lbs on the hoof at Home bush last Monday, Winchcombe, Carson's clearances included estate H…

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55,000,000 Sheep

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 1

According to the Government statistician's revised estimates, the State is now carrying close up to 55,000,000 sheep. In 1891 the New South wales…

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Canberra Ceremony. Pastoral Industry Ignored. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 5

Mr. C. G. Waddell, president of the N.S.W. Graziers' Association, is keenly disappointed ever the fact that the pastoral industry has been…

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Wheat Markets. a Declining Tendency

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 7

Private cables describe the oversea wheat markets as dull, with a declining tendency. America is said to be showing more disposition to sell…

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A Boy's "Joke" Strychnine in the Butter

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 March 1927 · page 2

Only for the resource of her husband a woman at Gloucester might have died from strychnine poisoning on March 9…

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