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Farming & the land, 1906

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The Dairy. Making Butter From Sweet Cream. the Use of Ferments

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 5

Condensed from a "bulletin" by J. D. Leclair, St. Hyacinthe Dairy School, Quebec, Canada. This bulletin contains a detailed…

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Wheat Culture by Electricity

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 10

The country correspondent of an Adelaide contemporary writes:—A series of interesting experiments in wheat culture by the aid of electricity has been interrupted by the…

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Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 8

Messrs. Schute, Bell and Co. report :-Inquiry for scoured, wool has been decidedly more active during the past week, and a good volume of business has been transacted…

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Preparation of Wool for Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 9

At an international conference of sheep breaders held in Derby on June 26th, Mr. S. B. Holling.s read an important paper on the subject of "The Preparation of Wool for…

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Sydney Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 2

We shall have a catalogue of about 1000 bales of wool on the 5th September. The offerings will be practically confined to early arrivals of the new clip…

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Government Loans for Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 4

In another column of this issue will be found a suggestive and valuable report upon the working of the Savings Banks of Victoria, especially in relation to the advances made to…

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Special Prizes.-For Adult Freehold and Tenant Farmers

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 7

Brood mare, suitable for farming purposes, Wm. Skinner: R. R. Carter, 2. Pair of plough horses or mares, R. R. Carter; Alex…

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Farm Produce. Sub-section A.

Singleton Argus · Saturday 1 September 1906 · page 7

Milling wheat, Reuben Smith 1 and 2. Oats, Arthur Heuston, Cape barley, Arthur Houston; 1, Krams, 2. Malting barley, P. Krams. Skinless…

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Wool and Wheat Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 4

During the past week 16,075 bales of wool were received at the Newcastle, Morpeth, and Darling Island depots, being a decrease of 2329 bales on the number received during the…

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Tuberculosis in Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 5

The National Federation of Mean Traders [?]ge that the Government should issue the [?]port of the Royal Commission on the re[?]tion of tuberculosis in man and in cattle,…

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Cattle Fever in Natal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 5

An outbreak of East Coast fever is doing [?]oc among cattle in Natal. It is feared at the epidemic is more widespread than [?] former outbreak of rinderpest. Some…

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The Farm and Dairy

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

A correspondent of the "Breeders Gazette" who has lately attended two important agricultural shows—one in England, the other in Ireland—expresses his astonishment…

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English Hop Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 September 1906 · page 5

Le May and Company's estimate of the English hop crop states that the crop is [?]siderably less that half the annual con[?]omption, and the acreage is the lowest for…

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A Mammoth Sheep

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2

A fat sheep, killed by Mr W. Bailey, teacher, of George-street, was on view last evening, and turned the soale (dressed) at 140 lbs. The animal was…

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Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 3

Messrs. Senute, Bell, and Co. report:—Interest on wool circles mainly in the sales to be held in Sydney on the 4th, 5th, and 6th instant, at which several new English and Continental buying house…

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Disease Among Cattle. Outbreak of ' East Coast Fever. London

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2

An outbreak of "east const fever" has occurred among cattle in Natal. It is feared that the outbreak will be even more widesprend than the…

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Let the Farmers Pay

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 4 September 1906 · page 2

That the farmers should bear the heaviest burdens is evidently the desire and determination of the present Federal Government, whose chief concern is to appease the hunger of…

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Dry Farming in South Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 5 September 1906 · page 6

At the present time when a great deal of attention has been directed towards the system of cultivation adopted in what are termed tho arid regions…

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Dry Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 6 September 1906 · page 2

We notice Unit in the South Australian Legislative Assembly yesterday Mr. Coombe. proposed a motion for the establishment of State farms in dry districts, in order to make experiments in the…

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Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 2

At the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co.'s wool market yesterday, competition was good for all descriptions of greasy, at rates quite equal to those of…

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