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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

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The farm tarden. Butter Tests and Milking Trials

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 13

The butter tests at the recent Islington Show in England show some really good records by various cows. That confined to Shorthorns was won by Mr. J. Even 's Bur…

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The Farm and Garden. Butter Tests and Milking Trials

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 6

The butter tests at the recent Islington Show in England show some really Rood records by various cows. That confined to Shorthorns was won by Mr. J. Even's…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 2

The Associated Wool-brokers report under date 12th instant:—Attractive catalogues have been submitted during the past week; competition has been…

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Dog Farms

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 4

The Chinese Empire is pre-eminently the country of fantastic trades. The reason of this may be that out-of-the-way avocations fall in with the strafcige tastes…

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Glad to Oblige. How the Weather Expert Enlightened the Farmer

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 3
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

In the course of a visit to the metropolis a farmer called at the Meteorological Office and looked curiously about the place…

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Farmers' Produce Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 December 1903 · page 10

There was an unusually large supply of produce at the Farmers' Union Sales at West Mait- on Wednesday morning, potatoes especially being largely represented. potatoes especially being largely represented. Although buyers were in good…

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The Wheat Yield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 December 1903 · page 4

The Government Statistician's latest estimate of the wheat harvest is 28,570,000 bushels. That is 12,570,000 bushels in excess of the record lmrvest of 1901. The estimated average yield of 19.2 bushels…

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Our Wheat Yield. a Record Crop

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 4

ACCORDING to a statement furnished by the Government Statistician, the total yield of wheat for the State is estimated at 28,570,000 bushels. This…

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Payment for Seed Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 5

The Minister of Agriculture has received the first remittance for seed wheat, amounting to £25, from a farmer at Trangie…

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Dairying in New Zealand

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 December 1903 · page 2

THE Rev. R. Fairbrother has supplied us (the "Armidale Chronicle") with the following from a New Zealand newspaper:—A family named…

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Argentine Wheat. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 December 1903 · page 5

THE four-masted barque, Falls of Garry, that has loaded a cargo of Argentine wheat at Sydney foH the English market, sails to-morrow…

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Wheat and Wool Traffic

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners are jubilant at the excellent harvest traffic prospects, and they are getting daily proofs of the accuracy of Mr. Cbghlan's forecast…

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The Wheat Yield

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 10

The Government Statistician's latest estimate of the wheat harvest is 28,570,000 bushels. That is 12,570,000 bushels in excess of the record harvest of 1901. The estimated average yield of 192 bushels…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 2

The Associated Wool-brokers report under date 19th instant:—The closing sales the half-year were held during the past operations being curtailed to two…

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the farm & garden. Cure for Lumpy Jaw

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 10

This disease says Mr. A. W. Bitting, veterinarian, at the Indiana Experiment Station, is due to a fungus sometimes called the ray fungus of actinomycocis. The fungus occurs upon grass and other…

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Farmers' Produce Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 December 1903 · page 7

Excellent supplies of produce were available at the Farmers' Union sales in West Maitland on Wednesday morning, and with a good attendance of buyers remunerative figures were obtained for most…

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The Farm and Garden. Cube for Lumpy Jaw

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 December 1903 · page 6

This disease says Mr. A. W. Bitting, veterinarian at the Indiana Experiment Station, is due to a fungus sometimes called the ray fungus of actinomy-cocis. The fungus occurs upon grass and other…

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Our Great Wheat Harvest [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 December 1903 · page 2

The railway authorities reported today that there were 38,000 bage of grain at Darling Harbour this morning. These had been accumulating…

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