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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

1,046 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 53

The Federal Land Tax and the Small Farmer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 June 1906 · page 4

Mr. Dugald Thomson has rendered good public service by calling attention to the in[?]quitableness of the proposed Federal land tax, and of the injuries it is likely to inflict upon…

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Stud Sheep Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 2

We have been requested to direct atten­tion to the advertisement of Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., in con­nection with their sale of stud sheep,…

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Government Grading of Butter

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 3

Mr T. T. Ewing M. H. R., thus addresses the Mayor of Lismore:— My Dear Sir,—I am addressing this letter to you in that you were…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report under date 13th June:—In the Sydney wool market there is active inquiry, and prices continue well…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 4

DALGETY and Company, Limited, Wool, Grain, and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report under date of June 12th:—There baa been no change in…

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On a Texas Cattle Ranch

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 3

No one, (says a gentleman mho has spent many years of his early life In the Far West)' who has wit­nessed a stampede of cattle can…

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They Are Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 June 1906 · page 5

In various parts of North America there is a kind of ant that performs all the processes connected with farming. These creatures weed the ground near their nests…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 8

Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—Buyers still show every disposition to do business, this being specially the case with operators on Russian and Japanese account[?]…

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Smut of Wheat and Barley

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 10

Until quite recently it was generally accepted by scientific investigators that the only stage at which cereals, were liable to infection by the diseases known as smut…

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Farm and Field. French Method of Feeding Horses

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 5

The French method of feeding working horses is described in a British agricultural journal as follows:—Three meals are necessary and sufficient, with…

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Farm and Field. High Prices for British Shorthorns

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 3

The sale of Shorthorn bulls at Birmingham in the first week of March was the best ever known at that fixture. The highest price realised was 850 gns…

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Farm for Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 4

The attention of investors and others is especially directed to a high-class and substantially improved small agricultural holding, containing about 30½ acres, portion of…

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Rearing the Dairy Calf

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 10

To raise a good calf it should be allowed to stay at its mother's side the first day to consume the first milk. This milk seems to be especially adapted to the call…

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The Man Behind the Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 10

When attending an institute at Ionia recently, I was much interested in a brief address by T. E. Martin, of Monroe county, N.Y. (writes H. E. Cook in the "American…

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The Farm and Garden. Matured Cows Are Best

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 June 1906 · page 10

The production of milk and butter fat by dairy cows under normal conditions increases with each year up to the [?] and sixth years, when the cow is at her best…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 June 1906 · page 4

During the past week, 18,478 bags of wheat were received at Darling Harbour, representing an increase on the number received the same week last year of 5370 bags, The season's receipts so far…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 June 1906 · page 6

Sweden is following closely in the footsteps of little Denmark in respect to the establishment of milk-testing societies (says the London correspondent of the New York…

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Jewish Farmers in Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 June 1906 · page 5

A Jewish farmer settled in Toowoorba, Queensland, writing in the "Jewish Chronicle" of May 4, suggests to his co-religionist in Russia that they should seek to…

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Prime Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 June 1906 · page 2

Included amongst the yardings of fat cattle oat the Campbell's Hill saleyards yesterday was a very fine consignment of bullocks from Dungog, the property of Mr. J…

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Moree Experimental Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 June 1906 · page 3

The Minister for Mines accompanied by Mrs. Moore, returned to Sydney yesterday from a visit to Bingara in connection with the annual hospital demonstration. Mr. Moore also visited the Moree…

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