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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Letters to the Editor. Co-operative System in Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 August 1906 · page 3

Sir,—It would be to the interest of dairymen if the industry could be worked entirely under the above system. If this could be brought about, and directors from each factory meet at stated…

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Bowthorn Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 August 1906 · page 2

All interested in the formation of Bowthorn batter factory and refrigerating works into a cooperative company are invited by advertisement elsewhere in this issue to attend public meetings to be held as…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 7 August 1906 · page 4

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

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Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory. Half-yearly Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 August 1906 · page 2

The second half-yearly meeting of the Dungog Co-operative Factory, Ltd., held in the Victoria Hall on Saturday night last, was…

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The Gambling Evil. An Archbishop's Pastoral Letter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 2

ARCHBISHOP CLARKE, with the Bishops of Ballarat, Bendigo, Wangaratta, and Gippsland, last week addressed a pastoral letter to the clergy of Victoria…

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Great Sydney Wool Store

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 4

From the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., we have received an elaborately-printed and beautifully illustrated pamphlet, issued in connection with the…

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"New-fangled Farming Notions."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 4

Farmers as a class are generally regarded as among the most conservative people in the world. Migrating from one country or district to another where conditions are entirely…

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Dairy Produce

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 6

Owing to the scarcity of feed for stook owing to the lack of ruin, the price of dairy produce is now rising much to the vexation of thirty house wives…

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Dry Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 August 1906 · page 6

The admirable article in Monday's " Mercury" on " Dry Farming" was well-timed, and should have been perused with keen interest by many perrons engaged in agricultural pursuits in our uncertain…

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Rise Tn Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 August 1906 · page 3

The price of buffer was raised 1d per lb in Sussex-street this morning…

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Letter to the Editor. Co-operative Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 9 August 1906 · page 4

Sir,—My attention has just been drawn to a letter in your journal of the 6th instant, signed "Dairyman," Seaham, in which the writer recommends the removal of the…

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Wheat Supply

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 3

The quantity of wheat afloat is 2,675,000 quarter for the United Kingdom, and 45000 quarters for the Continent. The [?]ipments from Atlantic ports last week…

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A Wheat Hospital

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 4

The loss to American and Can[?]ian farmere every year through [?] wet dirty, and diseased wheat is very large. To reduce this loss to a…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 2

The Associated Woolbrokers report underdate 4th August:— Business during the past week has been quiet sellers preferring to hold rather…

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The Gambling Evil. an Archbishop's Pastoral Letter

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 2

ARCHBISHOP CLARKE, with the Bishops of Ballarat, Bendigo, Wangaratta, and Gippsland, last week addressed a pastoral letter to the clergy of Victoria…

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Great Sydney Wool Store

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 2

FROM the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., we have received fin elaborately-printed and beautifully-illuatrated pamphlet, issued…

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Concessions to Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 10 August 1906 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners, in view of the satisfactory financial position of the railways, have beet modifying the conditions in regard to the freight for the carriage of rabbit find marsupial proof…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 6

Messrs. Schute, Bell and [?] very little of interest to report in the wool[?] for beyond the exchange of a few parcels of [?] treated brands, business has been very small. [?]…

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Sydney Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 2

The Sydney wool market shows returning activity, though prices are now on a lower level than a month or two ago. Last week we placed two important lines of fellmongered…

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Dry Farming

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 August 1906 · page 4

A remarkable article appears in the recently received issue of the "The Century Illustrated," on the subject of "Dry farming or Scientific Soil Culture," which should receive…

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