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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 65 of 151

Power on the Farm. Horse v. Tractor. American Expert's View

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 3

Commenting upon the low prices and increasing stocks of maize and oats in the United States of America, the monthly review of the National City…

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Dairy Factories. Managers' Conference. Control of Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 3

At the conference of Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association of New South Wales, at which visitors were…

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Fodder Conservation. Urged by Dairy Factory Manager. Sydney, Wednesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

Speaking at the Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries conference to-day, Mr. R. A, Napier, of Macksville advocated fodder conservation…

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Another Flood. Threatens Arkansas Farmers. New York, June 6

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1927 · page 5

Little Rock farmers who had been engaged on rehabilitation work were again driven to the hills when a new Hood threatened to devastatc…

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Wool Report

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 4

A little business is now passing in locally scoured and skin wools, and a few odd lines of passed in wool have also been sold during the week,…

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Wheat Market. Milling Offals Cheaper

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 8

In Sydney the wheat position was steady but quiet yesterday, buyers limits being unchanged at 4/11 for bagged wheat in country positions,…

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Butter Making. American Professor's View. "The Quality Square."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 2

Delegates to the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association's annual conference were deeply interested in the…

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Shearers and Wet Sheep Majority Vote Wanted. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 9 June 1927 · page 2

In the A.W.U. case in the Federal Arbitration Court to-day, J. W. Allen, for the N. S. Wales Graziers' Association, said: "Before, shearers refuse to…

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Heavy Maize Yields Singleton Farmers' Claims

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

Referring to high maize yields in the Singleton district, Mr. Mark H. Reynolds (agricultural instructor) reports that Mr. H. Lambert, Mr…

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Pastoral Wool Matters. Replies to Resolutions

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 3

Replies have been received from the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers by the Graziers' Association to certain resolutions carried by the association's…

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Imported Butter. Farmers Demand Protection

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 3

The Lower Hunter and Gloucester district council of the Primary Producers’ Union has adopted the following resolution:—That the central…

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Pastoral. Improvement of Pastures. Top Dressing

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 8

Graziers are taking more and more interest in the top dressing of pastures. It is calculated to make it possible to carry say, two sheep where one sheep…

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Better Butter. Our Improved Methods

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 3

With delegates from New Zealand, and Professor Hunziker, of the United States as guests, the annual conference of the Dairy Factory Managers' and…

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Color in Butter. Professor's Explanation

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 2

Replying to Mr. Noble (Muswellbrook), who referred to the question of color and the public's preference for pale butter, at the Butter Factories'…

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Wheat Market. Quiet All Round

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 6

The market displayed an all-round quietness on Thursday. Quietness on Thursday. Quatations for wheat were unchanged buyers' general limits…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 6

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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Shifting 10,000 Head of Cattle. a Big Job

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 1

The Railway Department will to-day commence the shifting of 10,000 head of Queensland bullocks which were brought to this district for grass a…

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Pastoral: a Valuable Introduced Grass. Phalaris Bulbosa Again Proves Its Worth

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 6

The latest report of success with this grass conies from Mr. H. Weller, of Ben Lomond, who planted an area with Phalaris Bulbosa in July, 1926, on old…

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Dairy Factories Managers' Conference. Improvement of Industry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 2

Visitors from America, South Australia, New Zealand, and Victoria attended the 22nd. annual conference of the Co-operative Dairy Factory…

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Better Farming Train. Second North Coast Visit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 June 1927 · page 3

It is estimated that 20,000 persons visited the Better Farming Train at the 12 stopping places between Maitland and South Grafton recently…

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