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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 71 of 151

The Dairy Industry. Getting the Most From the Cow. American Professor's Opinion

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 6

The guest of honor at the recent conference in Sydney of butter factory managers and secretaries was Professor Hunziker, a noted American…

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Crops Destroyed in Kansas

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 5

A Kansas City message states that winds of tornado intensity, with rains have swolen the streams, destroying many acres of wheat in the south-east…

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Heavy Frosts Farmers Sustain Severe Losses. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 2

The farmers in the Hawkesbury, Nepean, and Central Cumberland districts have lost heavily as a result of heavy frosts last week. Hundreds of acres…

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Singleton Central Co-op. Dairy Co., Ltd. Adoption of New Rules

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 June 1927 · page 2

In striking contrast to the last meeting called to adopt the rules as provided by the Co-operation Community Settlement and Credit Act, the Dairy…

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America's Wheat Pools

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 4

The wonderful success that has attended the co-operative marketing and pooling of wheat in Canada and the United States was sot forth very…

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Dearer Butter. Advance in Queensland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 3

The Queensland Butter Board has announced that the price of butter has been increased by a penny per 1b, to operate from to-day, marking…

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More Floods. in United States. Wheat Lands Stricken. Heavy Damage. Montreal, June 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 2

A Kansas City message states that a fresh outbreak of floods has heavily damaged sections, of the Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas…

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Better Farming Train. Second North Coast Tour Opened

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 June 1927 · page 7

After a period of two weeks spent in reconditioning and in resting the various stock exhibits, which form an important part of its equipment,…

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Producers Distributing Society Siberian Butter

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 4

The Siberian butter season has opened Arrivals are increasing each week, and importers claim a definite improvement this season in the quantity…

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Pastoral Research. Formulating a Scheme. Adelaide

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 5

At the fortieth annual convention, which concluded yesterday, it was decided to hold a conference to formulate a practicable scheme for pastoral…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory the Amalgamation Question

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 3

An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholder's of the Bowthorne Butter Factory, Ltd. was held in the School of Arts, Morpeth, on Friday afternoon, to consider…

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Australian Wool Not Deteriorrating

Singleton Argus · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 2

Mr F.B.S. Falkiner, the well-known pastoralist, stated on Tuesday that he did not agree with the statement that Australian wool was deteriorating. The…

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American Wheat. Chicago Board Criticised. New York. June 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 5

Mr. J. Gough, president of the Texas Wheatgrowers' Association, in the address to the American institute of Co-operation, demanded the…

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The Singleton Argus THURSDAY, 23rd JUNE, 1927. LOCAL & General News Ravensworth Cattle

Singleton Argus · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 2

At Homebush last Monday good to prime beef realised 30/- to 40/- per 100 lbs. Mr R. D. Wallace, Ravensworth, secured to £12/3/-, avg. £10…

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Missing Poultry. From Mr. John Brown's Farm. Charge Against Manager

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 2

Arthur Chrimes was charged before his Honor, Judge White, at the Maitland Quarter Sessions yesterday afternoon with having at Sydney on…

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Branxton Dairy Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 4

Messrs. H. E. Sparks, Lamb's Creek, and F. J. Pankhurst, Elderslie, directors of the Branxton Dairy Co., Ltd., will automatically retire…

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Farmers' Winter School

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 23 June 1927 · page 1

The Winter School for farmers to be held at Hawkesbury Agricultural College from June 28 to July 22, and the course is designed to cover all branches of practical…

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Pastoral. Top-dressing Sheep Lands. Graziers Should Use Superphosphate on Pastures

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 6

By providing grasses and pastures with nourishment in the shape of super phosphate, not only are the quality and quantity of the pastures affected, and…

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Dungog Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 2

Good to prime beef realised 30/- to 40/- per 100 lbs. on the hoof at Homebush last Monday. A Dungog grazier secured to £11/17/ avg…

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Wheat Quiet. But Farmers Continue to Hold

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 June 1927 · page 6

The wheat market, continued inactive, yesterday, with limits nominal and unchanged, being for bagged lots in the country the equivalent…

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