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Farming & the land, 1906

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Australian Butter Show the London Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 4

The Australian butter was, as in previous years, a very interesting feature of the annual Dairy Show at Islington (writes the London correspondent of "The Ago" on Oct…

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Sydney Wool Market. Splendid Prospects. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 5

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report be principal features of their wool market during the past week have been the active purchasing on English account, and the continued extensive…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 14

Greedy feeders swallow their food before it is sufficiently masticated, and the digestive organs are incapable of acting on the food in a crude state, and of extracting…

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Humor and Philosophy Farm Ballad

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 5

I remember, I remember Those old days of long ago When from May to late December It was grub and rake and hoe,…

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Visits to the Government Farms

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 4

A SCHEME is now being organised by the Intelligence Department, at Sydney, with the object of placing opportunities in the way of city dwellers and farmers…

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Training Young Farmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 4

It needs to be remembered that the purpose of the rural camp school movement is not in any sense to give boys a training for farm life. The duration of the sessions, is altogether too…

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Object Lesson in Farming

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 1

A striking instance of what may be accomplished on a small holding by a systematic rotation of crops came under the notice of Mr J. B. Connor,…

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wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 November 1906 · page 4

Thoug'h 37,819 bales of wool were received by rail at the three shipping depots—Darling Harbour, Newcastle, and Morpeth—during last week, the quantity was 67…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 November 1906 · page 7

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report:—Our catalogue to-day embraced a good selection, of greasies, representing most parts of the State, and…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 November 1906 · page 3

In a Cornell station bulletin on the subject of "Dust as Related to Food." the importance of small openings for milk, pails is taken up. It has been shown on…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 20 November 1906 · page 4

THE Woolbrokers' Association report:— WOOL.—A very satisfactory market has prevailed during the past week. Offerings…

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The Wool Market

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 November 1906 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool and Produce Brokers, report:— The principal features of the wool market during the past week have been…

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Boom In Sheep for Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 November 1906 · page 2

There has been a boom in values for prime sheep at the Homebush fat stock saleyards during the past two sale days. Yesterday's rates were the highest of the season for shore merino wethers. In…

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Dairying Industries

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 November 1906 · page 2

Owing to a typographical error in our last issue, it was stated that the output of butter from the local factories amounted to ten tons per week…

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Wool Arrivals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 November 1906 · page 5

[?] arrived 121,295 bales of wool. [?] have been forwarded direct [?] and there are avail[?] left over from the last…

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Wool Traffic Block

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 November 1906 · page 4

It is reported that the goods traffic at Darling Harbour is blocked so that wool consigned to Sydney is being delayed at Newcastle until circumstances permit of the trucks…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 23 November 1906 · page 3

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 17th November:—A very satisfactory market has prevailed during the past week. Offerings have…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 16

Though 37,849 bales of wool were received by rail at the three shipping depots—Darling Harbour, Newcastle, and Morpeth—during last week, the quantity was 67…

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"Bobs" Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 November 1906 · page 5

Various opinions have been expressed by millers as to the milling merits of "Bobs" Wheat, and also by growers as to its behaviour in the field…

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