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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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The Farm and Garden

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 13

Sunlight is the disease-producing germ's most deadly enemy. For treating poultry afflicted with warts a writer recommends cutting open the wart and…

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Topics of the Day. Queensland Dairying Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 4

Speaking at the Rosewood Show last week, the Hon. D. F. Denham (Minister of Agriculture) said that, whereas in 1903 Queensland, had only exported 546 tons of…

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Lecture on Dairying

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 3

Mr. O. Olson, manager of the Cessnock Butter Factory, delivered an interesting lecture on “Dairying” (under the auspices of the School of Arts…

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Farm Proouce

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 September 1905 · page 6

Milling wheat, one busnel, P. Krams. • Oats, Artnur neudton. Cape bariey, oue busnei, Artnur [?] brains, 2. Skinless barely, one…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 September 1905 · page 5

The Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday in an animated condition. 6165 bales of La Plata wool were offered, and 3515 bales were sold…

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Small Farms in Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 September 1905 · page 2

Japan is cut up by mountain ranges, so that only about one-tenth of the whole area in suitable for cultivation. The land under cultivation in Japan is about 18,000,000 acres, upon the…

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The Farm and Garden

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 September 1905 · page 7

Sunlight ia the disease-producing germ's most deadly enemy. For treating poultry afflicted with warts a writer recommends cutting open the wart and…

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The Wool Season. Satisfactory Progress

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 19 September 1905 · page 4

SHEARING continues to progress satisfactorily, and operations are now spread over a wide area. Report from all centres describe the clip as being…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 20 September 1905 · page 4

REPORT for week ending September 16:— Wool.—No auction sales have taken place during the past week, but a…

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Myall Creek Farms. Offered in England. London, Sept. 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 September 1905 · page 5

Out of the 50 farms offered to settlers by the New South Wales Government, through the Acting Agent-General (Mr. T. A. Coghlan), 30 have been taken up, and have been…

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Muswellbrook Letter. Extension of the Dairying Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 September 1905 · page 6

At the meeting of graziers recently held in Denman for the laudable purpose of endeavouring to establish a butter factory. a very significant remark was made by Mr. H. W…

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Wool Values

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1905 · page 2

For a State which annually exports wool of the value of considerably over £10,000,000, the tidings that the new season's wool sales in London opened with advances of…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1905 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Company report:—Our sale yesterday excited competition with a flood general demand at an average advance of five per cent on our last sales rates for greasy…

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Cattle for Japan. Important Trade Probable. Muswelbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1905 · page 3

The Japanese Government, apparently influenced by the successful shipment of live stock to London by Messrs. R. t. Keys, of Bougalla, and F. S. and H. w. Bell, of…

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The Wool Sales. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 September 1905 · page 3

The wool sales opened to-day, and competition was brisk, and prices shored an advance from 5 to 7 per tent an the closing rates of last year…

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Late News by Cable. London, Sept. 20. the Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1905 · page 3

At the wool sales yesterday Buxton Renald, and Co, Joseph Blame and Co., and Ducroz, Son, and Co. offered 9051 bales. The offerings comprised a poor selection of merinos and an…

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On the Land. Farmers from England. General Booth's Proposal. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 September 1905 · page 2

It is announced by Mr T. A. Coghlan the Agent-Generj for New South Wales, that thirty out of fifty of the farms on the Myall Creek [?]…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 3

the wool sales yesterday the following were realised for the undermentioned Walnnie 11¾d; Kaitoi 11[?] Gear, Dar River 21[?]d Double Hill 22d…

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The Wool Season. Advance in London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 3

THE September series opened in London on Tuesday with an advance of 5 per cent. for morinos AND 7 1/2 per cent. for crossbreds as compared with…

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Culling the Dairy Herd

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 September 1905 · page 4

AN officially kept record of the annual amount of milk and its value given by an average private dairy herd has recently been published, which forcibly…

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