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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

2,965 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 149

Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 6

Little variation in prices was noticeable at Alexandria for forage lines. Trade was steady without being good, for buyers were not operating…

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Raymond Terrace Dairy Co. Factory Report for December

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 26 January 1928 · page 4

Markets: Butter 1/7 to 1/7½ per pound, cheese 9d. to 10½d. per lb., city milk 1/4 per gallon less proportion freight on rail. Suppliers' Pay: Butter 1/7 per lb…

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Upper Hunter Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 7

Showing excellent length and attractive quality, the Avoca clip from Mr. M. M. MoLoughlin, Moonan Flat, attracted keen…

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Pastoral Industry. Store Stock Rate. Should Be Extended

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 8

Stockowners are strongly of the opinion that the store stock rates should he extended so as to include all store stock that are sent by rail…

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Australian Butter. New Zealand Imports a Menace

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 2

A very serious view was taken at a meeting of the Australian Butter Stabilisation Committee in Melbourne of the importation into Australia of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 January 1928 · 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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Agricultural. Wheat Growing Sow only Pure Graded Seed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 6

The complaint is frequently made by farmers that the seed of a variety of wheat that they have been growing for years has "run out," or that some…

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Dairy Supervision and Milk Farmers Oppose Change of Administration

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 January 1928 · page 1

The antagonism simmering against the proposal to transfer the administration of the Dairy Supervision Act to the Agricultural Department…

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Agricultural. Hay Crops. Wheat and Oats at Trangie

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 6

While wheaten hay has been grown for many years in the Trangle district, mainly as a feed for farm horses and as a reserve against…

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Pastoral Store Stock Rate Should Be Extended

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 3

Stockowners are strongly of the opinion that the store stock rates should bo extended so as to include all store stock that are sent by rail unless they…

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P.d.s. Column. World's Butter Exports

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 6

The "News Bulletin" issued by the Department of Markets and Migration supplies interesting information regarding the International export…

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Annual Bureau Conference Export Bounty on Butter

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 1

Among the business to be dealt with at the annual conference of the Hunter and Lower North Coast branches of the Agricultural Bureaux, to be held in…

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Pastoral Company Leases in Queensland. Chairman's Defence LONDON, Jan. 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 2

At the annual meeting to-day of the Australian Pastoral Company, Ltd., the chairman (Mr. F. A. Keating), in referring to the question…

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Dead. Canada's Cattle Trade with Britain. Montreal, Jan. 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 2

Dr. R. B. Rodger, representative of the Brtish Minister of Agriculture, will leave on February 4, for the Argentine, because the cattle…

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Australian Butter Unsatisfactory Position. Disuse of Preservatives, London, Jan. 19

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 12

The London butter market is very slow. Danish realised 170/ to 172/ per cwt., choicest salted, New Zealand 152/ to 154/, exceptionally…

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Butter Qaulity. Big Improvement in N.s.w. Supervisor's Commendation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 11

At a meeting of the New South Wales Dairy Advisory Baord on Wednesday, Mr. P. J. Carroll, Commonwealth Supervisor of Dairy Exports,…

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Prices Maintained. London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 23

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 2

At the wool sales 9694 bales were offered, of which 6025 were Australian. There was an average selection of dicrines, an excellent…

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Wool Sales. Good Competition in London London, January 24

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 2

At the wool sales 10,366 bales were offered, of which 6,809 were Australian and 1,042 New Zealand. There was a large offering of Merinos, and…

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Australia's Butter Export Survey for First Half of the Export Season. (Issued by the Australian Stabilisation Committee.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 5

The first six months of the Australian butter export season closed on December 31 last, and, thanks to the information courteously supplied from official…

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Better Farming. Empire—wide Movement. Value of Co—operative Methods

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 January 1928 · page 1

Mr. Karl Walter, secretary of the Horace Plunkett Foundation. Is visiting Australia in order to get in touch with the various agricultural…

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