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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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Butter Market. Production Still on Increase

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

Production of butter continues to increase, although arrivals for this week show a slight decrease on the previous week's figures. This no doubt has…

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Up in Arms. Dipping of Cattle Unpopular

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 8

Stockowners in the Tweed district are still up in arms against the decision of Mr. Thorby, Minister for Agriculture, that all cattle in the…

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Dairy Produce. Exports From Commonwealth

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 3

Of the 107,200 boxes of butter sent overseas during the week ended December 17, 18,270 boxes were despatched from New South Wales…

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Sheep and Wool Returns. the New Form

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 2

The 26,000 sheepowners throughout the State will be required to fill in a special return (A. and P. form No. 18) us to sheep, wool and lambing for…

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Wool

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

The Secretary, Farmers and Graziers' Co-op. Co., writes 23/12/27:— Apart from private selling of passedin lots, business in the wool market has…

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Butter Manufacture Singleton and Other Factories

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 2

The Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Company manufactured for the month of November 81 tons of butter, for which suppliers, were paid at the…

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Publicans as Registered Dairymen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 4

Local hotelkeepers, who keep cows for the purpose of supplying milk for their premises, have been notified by the health inspector of the…

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Wool Sales. Firm Market in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 3

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,954 bales, and the sales…

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The Potato Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 January 1928 · page 4

"It is the beat thing that has happened for a long time for the Hunter River farmers." This statement was made this morning by a…

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Butter Market

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 1

Prescott Ltd., report:— Sydney:— Production continues on the grade and with the pastures generally in excellent condition prospects for the…

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Butter Export. Commonwealth Gradings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

During the week ended December 31 the Commonwealth graders examined at Sydney for export 18,494 boxes of butter, 15,938 being salted, and 2496…

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Over the Sliprails Butter Freights

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

An effort on the part of tho Dairy Produce Control Board to secure further concessions in freights on butter to the Unitod Kingdom has boon…

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Cattle Dipping. Deputation From Tweed River

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 4

A deputation, representing the stockowners and dairy farmers in the Tweed River district, waited upon Mr. Thorby, the Minister for…

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Wheat Market. Reduction in Flour

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 6

The Sydney wheat market was very quiet yesterday, transactions being negligible. Buyers were offering 4/9 1/2 for growers' bagged lots in country…

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Wool Market. Firm in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 7

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,978 bales, and the sales…

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Wheat Market. Quotations in London. London, January. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

Wheat cargoes were steady. Sellers are asking occasional advances, but buyers are not following. Parcels were in moderate demand at…

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Wheat Options. Quotations in Chicago. New York, Jan 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

Chicago wheat options were quoted to-day as follows: March 130 5-8 cents…

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Wool Research. New Laboratory for Leeds. Marketing Board Grant. London, Jan. 4

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 5

It is understood that the Empire Marketing Board proposes to grant a capital sum of £7000 and an annual maintenance…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 January 1928 · page 7

Business was steady for forage and grain at the Alexandria market at unchanged rates. In the vegetable section potatoes met a poor demand…

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