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Farming & the land, 1906

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Adulterated Butter a Heavy Fine

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 4

Messrs Coopman and Young, butter merchants, of Smithfield, charged with wrongly describing as butter a mixture of butter and cocoanut oil,…

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Sheep Poisoned by Rabbit Baits

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

SAYS the Baan Baa correspondent of the Boggabri Examiner:—Mr. Leo Guest had the misfortune last week to lose several sheep through eating rabbit baits. I hear also that…

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Sydney Wool Market. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 2

On Tuesday we brought forward a large and attractive catalogue of 4491 bales, which was actively competed for by a large attendance'of buyers representing every section of…

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The Farm and Garden 'A Cure for Dodder

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 12

Lucerne is one of the best fodder plants in the world, and a largo extent of land in Australia is suitable for its growth, but, unfortunately, it has enemies which cause a groat…

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Wilful Destruction. Burning Growing Crops

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 January 1906 · page 5

During the past two months, outbreaks of fire, numbering as many as 12 in one day, have occurred in the vicinity of what is known as…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 3

Nothing more clearly marks the backwardness of the farming end of Australian dairying than the fact that all our data in regard to the feeding of milking cows…

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About Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 January 1906 · page 4

'A great many short-sighted separator agents (says a dairyman's journal) have done a lot of harm to the system by claiming for their respective machines that it is…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date of January 27th:—The record of business transacted in the Sydney…

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Dungog Co-Operative Butter Factory. First Half-yearly Meeting of Shareholders

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 2

About 70 shareholders of the Dungog Co-operative Batter Factory attended the first half-yearly meeting of the Company in the Victoria Hall…

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New Immigrants. a Welsh Farmer with Capital. Thousands More May Follow

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1906 · page 4

AMONG the passengers who arrived by the R.M.S. Ortona, on Friday, was Mr. T, Jones, who has given up farming in Wales, and has come to this…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 31 January 1906 · page 5

At the wool sales prices were firm, and there was strong competition in all sections. The following prices were realised for the undermentioned clips:—Gragin, 9[?]d:…

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Butter Factory Meeting

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 2

The annual general meeting of shareholders of Singleton Central Cooperative Dairy Co, Ltd., was held at the Elite Hall on Tuesday afternoon…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 3

At the sales prices realised for the undermentioned clips were:—Mortlock, 8½d; Willandra, 10½d; Bowan Downs, 10[?]d; Cy, 11[?]d; Yullundry, 11[?]d; Deepwater, 11¾d;…

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The Wool Sales [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 2

Prices wore fully maintained at yesterday's wool sales…

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Hurricanes in Queensland Buildings Unroofed and Crops Damaged

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 February 1906 · page 2

A cyclone visited Alberton and Mareeba (Q.) on Saturday. The wind blew with terrific force from noon till about 2 o'clock nest morning, with…

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Adulterated Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 3

the case against Messrs. Coopman and [?] butter dealers, of Smithfield, found [?] last week of wrongly describing as [?] a mixture of butter and cocoanut oil,…

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Wheat Wealth

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

FEW Premiers of bye-gone days have had the happiness to stand at the helm of State when the vessel has been subjected to such fair winds and fine weather as that which…

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Co-operative Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 2

The annual mooting of tho shareholders of the Singleton Central Co-operativo Butter Factory was presided over by Mr. King Warburton (director), in the absence of…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 3

The wool sales closed firm, the market being unchanged…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 2 February 1906 · page 5

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 27th January: —An excellent demand has prevailed throughout the past week, Continental…

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