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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1928

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Evenness of Wool Prices. Exceptional Stability

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report 25th January:— It is doubtful if Australia has ever experienced a wool season when values…

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Wool Sales. Strong Competition in Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 3

Wool sales were held yesterday tit the Sydney, Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 10,214 bales, and the sales…

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A Survey of Australia's Butter Export for the First Half of the Export Season

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 7

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

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A Survey Of Australia's Butter Export for the First Half Year of the Export Season

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 1

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

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

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 8

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

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Prison Farms. Extension of System

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 8

The Minister for Justice (Mr. Lee) who returned to Sydney has after an inspection of the Mila afforestation farm in the Bombala district…

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Local and General Sale of Farms

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 2

Mr. W. N. Dann, Farm Salesman West Maitland sold privately during the last week 560 acres dairy farm, Glen Oak, for Mr. W. J. Green, 54…

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Thrown From Sulky a Farmer Killed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 31 January 1928 · page 2

When the wheel of his sulky struck a stump on Saturday, Mr Peter Campbell, aged 76, a well-known farmer of Rosebrook near Maitland, was thrown…

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Wool Sales. Firm Values Maintained

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 6

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogues totalled 12,342 bales, and the sales…

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Wheat Harvest Lowest for Nine Years. Estimate of 27,111,000 Bushels

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 3

The wheat harvest of 27,111,000 bushels, which was the subject of a preliminary estimate by the Government Statistician issued yesterday, is…

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Dairy Produce. Control Board Meets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 6

A meeting in Melbourne of the Dairy Produce Control Board who attended by representative of New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria…

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Farmers' Markets. Alexandria Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 6

Average prices ruled at Alexandria for forage lines; no auctions took place in this section, and buyers were far from numerous. Grain…

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Farming Operations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 1 February 1928 · page 4

Farmers have taken full advantage of the spoil of fine and warm weather to make hay. The lucerne, however, has not cropped as thickly…

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Arimdale Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 4

Messrs. A. H. M'Arthur & Co. report having conducted a highly successful auction sale of fat and store cattle at Armidale Municipal Yards on Friday,…

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Sheep Stealing Charge

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 2

At the Singleton Police Court on Tuesday, before Mr T. A. Doolan, J.P., Reginald Clarence Alcorn, aged 19, was charged with stealing at or near North…

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Butter Cheaper Reduction of One Penny

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 7

Butter ruled /1 cheaper at 1/6 per lb or 168/ per cwt, among wholesale dairy houses in Sydney to-day…

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Wool Sales. Full Clearances Made

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 6

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 11,418 bales, and the…

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Canada Australian Trade Treaty. Abrogation Urged. Inimical to Dairy Farmers. Vancouver, Feb. 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 5

A Calgary message states that the cause for the alarming decrease in Alberta Dairy products was inquired into by the annual convention of the…

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Sterling's Cargo Wheat Only Slightly Damaged. London, Feb. 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 5

The hatches of the schooner, E. R. Sterling, which bad a thrilling voyage lasting nine months, were opened to-day, when it was disclosed…

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The Wheat Harvest Estimated at 27,000,000 Bushels

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 February 1928 · page 3

Mr T. Waites, Government Statistician, on Tuesday issued a preliminary estimate of the wheat harvest of the State giving the probable results of…

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