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Farming & the land, 1905

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American Tobacco Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 August 1905 · page 3

A newspaper called "Tobacco" states that the American Agricultural Bureau's estimates of the tobacco crop have been falsified in order to serve the ends of speculators…

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Wool and Produce

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 4

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 29th July:— Owing to the bareness of supplies the local market continues quiet, but such…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 6

The New Zealand Loan and Mer[?]tile Age[?] Co., Limited, Sydney, report having sold a parcel of wool which was the product of sheepskins from the Sydney Meat Preserving Company's works at…

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The Butter Trade. Conference of Co-operators

Singleton Argus · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 4

A conference of representatives of co-operative butter factories throughout the State was opened at Sydney on Thursday…

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The Wool Market. Uncertainty in England

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 10

A London correspondent, writing to the "Argus' on June 30, says:—The Market is in a state of high fever, and there is apparently nothing near at hand to check it…

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Muswellbrook Cattle Market. Edward Higgens, Parkinson and Co. Report

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 6

About 1600 cattle yarded on the 1st inst. comprising about 900 Queensland mature bullocks, balance young bullocks and steers. Boyers were only in moderate attendance and competition dull and…

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Sydney Wool Salea. Winchcombe Carson and Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 2

The general paucity or arrivals of wool from the country is not stopping business in Sydney, as pur market has always a certain quantity of fellmongered Wool to rely upon for…

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Poultry Farming on Great Lines. (Contributed.)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 8

While it cannot be said that poultry farming is neglected in Australia, the vast possibilities of this branch of industry are not adequately realised. For carrying it on successfully one does not require to…

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Rules for Dairymen

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 12

Prof. Carlyle, of the Colorado Agricultural College, has formulated a set of rules for the guidance of dairymen in currying on their work so as to ensure the best results…

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The Farm and Garden. Cleanliness in Milking

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 12

The second part of Bulletin No. 87, just issued from the Nebraska Experiment Station deals with a test to determine the amount of contamination of milk that takes…

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Cotton Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 5 August 1905 · page 5

Government statistics indicate that the American cotton crop will be 9,500,000 bales…

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Farmers and Settlers Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 8 August 1905 · page 3

The annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers Association opened to-day in the large hall of the Royal Chambers, Castlereagh-street. The president (Mr. J…

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The Shareholders Dungog Co-operative Dairy Coy. to the Editor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 August 1905 · page 2

Sir,—Being entirely responsible for the promotion and organising of the above company, under the auspices of the Underbank Farmers' and Settlers'…

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The Dairying Industry. Aberdeen—rouchel—segenhoe. What Is Being Done. Halcombe

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1905 · page 2

"THE only thing that pays now is milking cows," said Mr. Henry Wilton—of Wilton Bros., who have a dairy farm at Halcombe, a couple of…

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Rules for Dairymen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1905 · page 3

Prof. Carlyle, of the Colorado Agricultural College, has formulated a set of rules for the guidance of dairymen in carrying on their work so as to ensure the best results…

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Farmers and Settlers Conference. Land Administration

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1905 · page 8

The annual conference of the New South Wales Farmers' and Settlers' Association was opened in Sydney yesterday. The president, Mr. J. M. Inerney, Presided…

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The Farm and Garden. Cleanliness in Milking

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1905 · page 3

The second part of Bulletin No. 87, just issued from the Nebraska Experiment Station deals with a test to determine the amount of contamination of milk that takes…

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The Farmers' Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 August 1905 · page 3

Apart from matters relating purely to the organisation, the only business dealt with at the conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association yesterday was a group of three propositions…

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The Dairying Industry. Aberdeen—rouchel—segenhoe. What Is Being Done. (Continued) [Th A. C. AND F. Butter Factory.]

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 August 1905 · page 2

"I WANT to report the Factory." "Very well, but don't elaborate too much," thus answered Mr. C. W. Wood—foreman in charge. But there…

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Farmers' Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 August 1905 · page 2

The farmers and settlers got through a lot of business at their conference yesterday. They are not making any picnic of the affair. starting at 9.30 a.m., they sat on till 10 p.m., with two…

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