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Farming & the land, 1905

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Farm Trailing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 4

Processor 'Angas, of the South Australian Agricultural Department, admires the Hawkesbury College, which he considers is easily first among institutions of its kind in…

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Exodus of Farmers. Seeking Land in Queensland

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 7

The party of farmers who passed through Singleton in Monday night's Brisbane mail were interviewed by the Queensland Minister for Lands on…

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Farms for Settlement

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 October 1905 · page 4

It will be perceived by a notice inserted with reference to the Rothbury and Belford Estates, that the owners being willing to throw, open the fine…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Thornthwaite Wool Establishes a Record. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 October 1905 · page 2

AT to-day's wool sales, at the Pastoral Finance Association's sales, Finley's wool sold to 13rd for 43 bales, which is a record for the season…

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Danish Butter Production

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 6

Nearly half of the enormous quantity of butler imported into the United Kingdom comes from the little country of Denmark, which in the six years ending 1903, sent…

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Thefts of Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 5

Three Boers of the Transvaal, who were armed, have been arrested at Schuit Drift, in Western Cape Colony, on a charge of stealing 200 cattle from Germans. The…

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In the Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 6

Usually the practical disdains to be compressed into rhythm and rhyme, but the following by Rev. M. D. Rawntsley, vicar of Crothswaite, England, which he read at an…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 4

REPORT for week ending October 7:— Wool.—The weekly series of auctions were inaugurated during the…

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On the Dairy Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 6

Descriptions of well-equipped dairying estates such us that at Leconfield, near Branxton, have at different times been given in our columns, and we do not intend to repeat such…

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Our Rural Resources. the Dairying Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 October 1905 · page 6

We keep no starvelings, seraggy grown, Loose-legged, and ribbed and bony, Like those who grind their noses down On pastures bare and stony…

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Next Year's Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 October 1905 · page 3

[?] roster wool sales for next year [?] fixed as follows:—January 16, [?]13, May 8. July 10, September 25, [?] 27. The number of bales for the…

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Art of Salting Butter. American Experiments

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 October 1905 · page 4

AN important series of experiments have been carried on the Ames (Iowa, U.S.A.) station to ascertain how much salt can be properly dissolved in butter…

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Danish Butter Production

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 11

Nearly half of the enormous quantity of butter imported into the United Kingdom comes from the little country of Denmark, which in the six years ending 1903, sent…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 13

On Thursday 3257 bales of wool were sold at auction. Our catalogue comprised at good average selection of greasy wools, chiefly from the Nyngan, Coonamble, Cobar…

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In the Butter Factory

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 11

Usually the practical disdains to be compressed into rhythm and rhyme, but the following, by Rev. M. D. Rawntsley, vicar of Crothswaite, England, which he read at an…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 4

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 7th October:— The weekly series of auctions was inaugurated during the past week under…

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Late News by Cable. London, Oct. 13. Cattle Maimirg

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 5

In October 1903, George Ernest Edalji, [?] was sentenced at the Birmingham [?] to seven years' penal servitude on [?] maiming a horse at Great…

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On the Dairy Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 11

Descriptions of well-equipped dairying estates [?] as that at Leconfield, near Branxton, have at different time been given in our columns and we do not intend to repeat such…

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Our Rural Resources. the Dairying Industry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 11

We keep no starvelings, scraggy grown, Loose-legged, and ribbed, and bony, Like those, who grained their noses down On pastures bare and stony.—…

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The Farm and Garden

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 October 1905 · page 13

Incubators and brooders cost something; it plays to put them away when no longer needed. They should be put away clena and in a dry, clean place; then when needed…

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