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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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A Farmers' Union

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

In New Zealand the Farmers' Union, a body of some 20,000 strong, has done much to bring the importance of the landed industries…

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Farmers' Produce Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 7

Remarkably large supplies of produce, principally of melons, pumpkins, potatoes, and fruit, were forward at the Farmers union sales in West Maitland on Wednesday morning. Buyers were in large…

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Co-operative Dairy Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1904 · page 2

The fourth annual meeting of the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., was held at the Elite-hall, John-street, on Thursday afternoon. Mr. J. G. Dight, chairman of directors, presided over…

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Pasteurised Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 3

For several years past Professor Dean as chief of the Dairy Department of the Ontario. Agricultural College, has been carrying on. a series of experiments with the object of…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 3

The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and…

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Government Wheat Experiments. an Interesting Point Raised

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 4

MR. W. E. ABBOTT writes to the Herald:—"In your issue of the 19th I note that Mr. W. Farrer, the Government wheat experimentalist,…

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The Farm and Gaeden. the Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 3

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

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Government Dairy Instructor

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 2

Mr T. W. Hanmer, Government Dairy Instructor in connection with the Department of Agriculture is now on a visit to Singleton, and is willing to give any…

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Warwick Farm Races

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 February 1904 · page 3

Following are results of the racing at Warwick Farm on Saturday:— THE FARM STAEES, mile.-Mr j. Graham's b in Dab, by The Sinner—Ten…

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Draft Allowance on Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 4

The movement originated by the Sydney Wool selling Brookers, having for its object the abolition ' of the draft allowance on wool, is one which…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 5

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At our wool sale yesterday greasies sold irregularly, but lambs' wool and scoured were in strong demand at…

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Butter Tests and Milking Trials

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 1

The butter test at the recent islington Show in England shwo some really good records by varous cows. That continedin Shorthhorns was won by Mr. J. Even a…

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

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 3

On Wednesday, we submitted a catalogue of 1468 bales, comprising a varies assortment of useful lines in both the greasy and scoured sections…

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40,000 Acres Subdivided Into Dairy Farms of 100 to 3648 Acres

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 1

The COLINTON Estate, the property of W. J. H. MOORE, Esq., M.L.A., has for many years been known as THE BEST FATTENING, THE BEST WATERED, and THE WARMEST WINTER COUNTRY within a radius of several hundred miles from Brisbane. The BRISBANE RIVER flows right through the centre of tlv; Property, which has a frontage of over 18 miles co each bank, or upwards of 36 miles in all. The Balance of the Estate is watered by Seventeen Creeks with frontages to same of over 111 miles. (See paragraphs on page 3 under headings "Water," Fattening," and "Wintering.")…

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The Dairy New Dairy Expert

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 1

The [?] to which the dustry has [?] and its growthing [?]…

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Poultry An English Duck Farmer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 3

About 20,000 ducks per year are raised and marketed by Peter Walsh, of Lancashire, England. Ho buys eggs from farmers and hatches by incubators and liens. The…

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Migratory Sheep of Spain

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 3
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

There are said to be about 10,000,000 migratory sheep in Spain, which travel as much as 200 miles from the plains to the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 4

The Associated Wool-brokers report under date 30th January:—The sales throughout the past week have been characterised by much animation, end values haveruled…

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Draft Allowance on Wool

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 2

The movement originated by the Sydney Wool-selling Brokers, having for its object the abolition of the draft allowance on wool, is one which will commend itself…

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