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Farming & the land, 1904

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To-day's Wool Sales. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 26 January 1904 · page 2

MESSRS Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Ltd., report as follows:—We sold 3200 bales of wool to-day. Tasmanian greasy realised up to 12½d, Sydney…

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Experiments in Wheat. Rust and Bunt Prevention

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 4

Mr. W. S. Campbell has communicated the following interesting facts to the press, in reference to recent departmental experiments in varities…

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How to Stack Wheat. A Safe and Effective Method

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 2

Mr. Frank Mack, partner of the well known firm of Mack and Austin, of Narrowmine, the largest growers of wheat in New South Wales, writes to…

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Farm Hands in Canada

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1904 · page 5

The Commissioner of Emigration for Cannada states that he is in receipt of information by cable from the Federal and Provincial Governments of Canada and from the city…

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The Wheat Traffic. Transport to the Railway Station

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 January 1904 · page 3

Mr H. Richardson, superintendent of railway lines, who has been through the western districts, as well as a part of the southern territory, says the…

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Travelling Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 4

IN Chambers on Wednesday, Mr. Justice Pring dealt with a special case stated under the Justice Act by way of an appeal made at the instance of…

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Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 3

[?]t the wool sales last evening there was [?]ong competition, and prices were maintained. Merinos were exceedingly firm, and [?]ssbreds were keenly competed for, except…

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A Queen Sells Butter

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 1

Queen Wilhelmina of Holland has gene into the dairy business and is now making money by selling milk and butter. Her first step in this direction was when she…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Harrison, Jones, & Delvin, Ltd., Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 3

We submitted a catalogue of 3298 bales at auction on Wednesday, last comprising a varied selection of wools all of which were competed for by…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. the Milk Flow in Dairying During Hot Weather

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 2

WHEN the milk flow in cows becomes lessened it cannot be regained during the lactation period. When the very warm…

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The Cream Separator on the Farm

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1904 · page 2

The problem for the dairyman after he has produced the milk is the separation of the cream and the manufacture of a product which will bring him the greatest…

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Pasteurised Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 6

For serval years past Professor Dean chief of the Dairy Department of the unit Agricultural College, has been carrying series of experiments with the object of…

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Blind Sheep

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

Mr. F. G. Taylor, Terrible Vale, writes to the Stock and Station Journal, as follows:—In your last issue I saw that a correspondent asked for a cure for blind…

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Travelling Sheep

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

In Chambers on Wednesday last, Mr. Justice Pring dealt with a special cage stated under the Justices Act by way of an appeal made at the instance of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 4

The Associated Wool Brokers report under dale 23rd instant:—Sales have progressed very satisfactorily during the past week, and an active demand has been met…

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Golden Wheat Op Goodness

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 14

Tribulation is God's threshing—not to destroy us, but to get what is good, heavenly and spiritual in us separated from what is wrong, earthly and fleshly. Nothing less than…

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United States Wool Clip

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 13

Tho National Association of United States Wool Manufacturers estimates the number of sheep in the United States on April 1, 1963, at 39,284,000, against 42,184,122 head on the same date in 1992…

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Singleton Wheat Offered. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 4

A LARGK fine of bleached wheat from Singleton District was offered to-day to Sydney merchants at 2s Id per bushel on trucks at Singleton, which…

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The Wool Sales. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 5

ATt the wool sales yesterday the competition was brisk, and prices were firm, and slightly better prices were obtained for scoured merinos…

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the farm of garden the Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 6

It is the history of all breeds of and that improving lands makes the animals ture earlier, and this, accompanied with lurking propensity to fatten…

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