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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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The Hon. J. N. Brunker and Mr. Gillies, M's.P., Interviewed the Minister of Mines and Agriculture this afternoon with reference to the establishment of an experimental farm in the Maitland District,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →MR A. J. BALFOUR, the First Lord of the Treasury, in replying to a deputation of farmers which waited upon him to urge the introduction of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →It is a mistaken notion to suppose that cows need no shade in the pasture. They cannot eat all the time, and while not eating the more comfortable they are, whether in the shade of…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Mr. Rein's shipment of Australian butter, packed in piaster, arrived in a rancid condition. The butter was shrunken, and had apparently been heated on the voyage. Mr. Sinclair, the Victorian…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Under the instructions of a West Australian firm Mr E. W. Sparke, the wellknown Maitland auctioneer, has selected a draft of 150 fat bullocks from Arrowfield…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Hon. J. N. Brunker and Mr. Gillies, M's.P., interviewed the Minister of Mines and Agriculture on Wednesday with reference to the establishment of an experimental farm in the Maitland District…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A Pennsylvania farmer thus describes how he doubled his potato crop without materially increasing the cost: I have sixteen acres of land, on which I grow potatoes, fruit and…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Whilst many agriculturists on the Hunter pull wry faces when they are occasionally charged with making their fortunes in a rapid and easy manner, they do not carry their deprecation so far as to deny…
Continued on Trove, page 15 →Owing to the success which has attended the system of farming on the shares principle, pastoralists in the Albury district have already received a large number of applications for an extension of the…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →On Wednesday Mr J. N. Brunker and Mr Gillies, Ms.L.A., waited on the Minister for Mines and Agriculture as a deputation from the Hunter River Agricultural…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FARMER & COMPANY' of Sydney, beg to announce that their representative, Mr E. G. Fletcher, will be in Singleton on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The question is one that has long age been satisfactorily answered by all civilized countries except Australia, it being no exaggeration to state that oar pastoralists are quite…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FARMER & COMPANY, of Sydney, beg to announce that their representative, Mr E. G. Fletcher, will be in Singleton on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, February…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Store sheep advanced in value the last few days from one shilling to eighteen pence, grazing conditions being now favourable for re-stocking…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In their wool circular Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co. state that there is a prospect of the prices for merino wools advancing at the nextsales. Crossbreds are less reassuring, but prices are not likely to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The roads are drying up and several parties started yesterday to inspect stock under offer, Agents are offering store owen at 4s 6d to 8s, according to age and quality; store wethers, 5s to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The artificial colouring of butter (says Rural Australian) has often been denounced by scientific dairymen, but it is a practices that has come to stay all the same. The natural…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →The question is one that has long ago been satisfactorily answered by all civilized countries except Australia, it being no exaggeration to state that our pastoralists are quite…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:— The first series of Colonial sales for this year opened on the 14th Jan., with three catalogues, comprising together 6,271 bales, of which 1.956 were Capes and…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →When dairy utensils are rightly cared for they need never become grease-soaked. I have had a twenty-gallon churn in use for nearly seven years, and it is as sweet and…
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