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Farming & the land, 1905

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Japan's Rice Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 5

The Kobe correspondent of the "Daily Express" states that incessant rains have fallen over Japan, and it is feared that the rice crop will be totally rained…

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The Farm and Garden. Beet

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 August 1905 · page 6

Few gardens, nowever sman, are to be found without this favourite vegetable, According to chemical analyses, beet contains much more nutritive matter than any other root, excepting the…

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Dungog Oo-operative Butter Factory. Special General Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 2

Notwithstanding the unfavorable weather about 80 shareholdes in the Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory presented themselves at the…

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The Wool Market. Prospects of an American Demand

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 4

DALGETY and Company, Limited, report:—The question of an American demand for portion of the present Australian wool clip is one of…

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Australasian Dairy Produce

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 September 1905 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. Ltd., report from London, for the week ended July 28:— Butter:—The demara has been well maintained…

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Farm and Field. Mutton Breeds of Sheep

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 4

In connection with the Improvement of sheep for mutton purposes some interesting experiments are being carried out at the Government stud farms in New…

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Butter as a Medicine

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 4

Butter is so common a commodity that people use it and scarcely ever think what wonderful value lies at their hand in the pats of dainty…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 2

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 26th August:—Satisfactory conditions continue to operate in the local market, a good…

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Australian Dairy Produce

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 9

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited, report for the week ended July 21:—Butter.—The market generally since the…

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The Duckenfield Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 September 1905 · page 6

The annual meeting of the Duckenfield Co-operative Dairying Company was held at the Comapany's Office, Duckenfield, when the report and balance-sheet was placed before the shareholders…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 2

THE Australian Mortgage, Land & Finance Co., Ltd., John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and…

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Tuesday, September 5, 1905. Dairy Supervision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 2

THE dairying industry is becoming one of great importance to Australia. During the decade ending December, 1903, 21,304 tons of butter wore exported to the United…

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Mixed Farming

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 September 1905 · page 2

THE utterances of the Hon. Mr. Dick at the opening of the P. A. and H. Show at Gunnedab last week, anent the necessity for inculcating a greater…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 September 1905 · page 3

Wool sales will be held at Antwerp on September 13, 14, and 15th install. 6600 bales of La Plata wool and 3000 bales from other places will bo offered…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Ltd

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 September 1905 · page 2

We held our first sale of the new season's clip on Thursday, the catalogue comprising nearly 3200 bales which included clips from the earlier…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 9 September 1905 · page 2

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 2nd September :— Important wool auctions are to be held during the coming week, when between…

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Useful Farm Hints

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 9 September 1905 · page 4

The following formulae, by a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeon (Eng.). will be found useful in treating common ailments…

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The Farm and Garden

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1905 · page 13

Profit in farming depends on three factors : the value of the product the cost of production end the cost of marketing. According to the claims of cold storage men…

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The Duckenfield Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1905 · page 12

The annual meeting of the Duckenfield Co-operative Dairying Company was held at the Company's Office. Duckenfield, when the report and balance-sheet was placed before the shareholders…

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Australasian Dairy Produce

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1905 · page 14

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co, Ltd., report from London for the week ended July 28:— Butter—The demand has been well maintained…

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