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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1927

3,013 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 73 of 151

P.d.s. Column. Siberian Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 7

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

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Wheat Crops. Position in America. High Prices Expected. But Poor Harvest. Montreal, June 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 2

A Chicago message announces that leaders of the Grain Exchange say the American farmer may expect high prices for his wheat this year, with…

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Wool Sales. Market in Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 8

The quality of Wednesday's offering at the Sydney wool sales was decidedly below the average. A total of 9393 were offered at auction, and 8177 were…

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Bright Outlook. for State Wheat Harvest

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 13

With a little more timely rain in the wheat bolt, the crops are likely to exceed considerably those or last year…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory. the Amalgamation Question. an Unconstitutional Meeting

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 11

An extraordinary general meeting of shareholders of the Bowthor[?] Butter Factory Limited was held in the School of Arts, Morpeth, on…

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Loss of Eight Millions Sheep Mortality in Central Queensland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 14

Mr. F. Niall, a leading pastoralist estimates that the central Queensland pastoralists have lost £8,000,000 in sheep during the last eighteen…

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Wheat Pool. Success in Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, June 19

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 2

Mr. MacLeod, director of publicity for Canadian Co-operative Wheat Producers. Ltd., to-day informed the Australian Press Association that…

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Grades for Bulk Wheat. Some Advantages of System

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 9

The following interesting summary of the advantages of a system of grading bulk wheat over the f.a.q., system in vogue in New South Wales,…

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Season's Wool Clip. Decrease of 250,000 Bales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 5

At a joint conference of the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers and the Australian Wool Growers' Council, held at Adelaide, it was…

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 1

Mr. J. Cough, president of the fexas Wheatgrowers Association in an address to the American Institute of Co-operation demanded the…

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More Floods. in United States, Wheat Lands Stricken Heavy Damage. Montreal, June 2

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 2

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

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Dungog. Police Court Cases. Charges Against Dairymen'

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 14

At Dungog Police Court, Mr. P. Potts, P.M., had an unusually large number of cases to deal with. About 30 dairymen of the…

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Disastrous Frosts. Hawkesbury Farmers Lose Heavily. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 14

Farmers in the Hawkesbury, Nepean and Central Cumberland districts, have lost heavily as a result of heavy frosts last week…

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 5

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

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Crops Destroyed in Kansas

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 2

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

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Better Farming Train. Second North Coast Tour Opened

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 3

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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Immigrant Farmhand Too Ardent

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 June 1927 · page 6

When J. S. Scott, a farmer of Pirron Yallock, near Colac (Vic), noticed that an immigrant farmhand, employed by him, was paying too much attention to…

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Butter Manufacture

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 3

Although much belated the Australian viewpoint is developing with all phases of Dairying. In the Interstate Butter-Cheese…

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Surplus Butter Exported

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 3

As indicated by the summary of the surplus exported, production over Australia responds quickly to every change in weather conditions:…

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Sheep for Liverpool Plains

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 28 June 1927 · page 6

Tuesday, 8th January.—Mr. Chas. Hall came down from Stroud in the evening for the purpose of deciding on various, arrangements for our…

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