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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Farm and Field. The Rabbit Disease

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 February 1906 · page 3

The proposal to put Dr. Danysx s scheme for the annihilation of the rabbit pest in Australia to a practical test has been set in motion in New South…

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Dairy Farm Drudgery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 February 1906 · page 4

The current number of the "The Station, Farm and Dairy" deals with the above subject, and states that if there is a matter of just complaint in any industry of New south…

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Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 February 1906 · page 3

Beyond question, diarying is carried on more cheaply in Australia than in any other part of the world. Of course, hired labour influences it to some extent, and the wages…

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Charge of Cattle Stealing

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 27 February 1906 · page 2

AT the Walcha Police Court on Thursday, 15th, before Mesars Walsh and C. Seckold, J's.P., Kenneth Mychael was charged with stealing 13 head of…

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Interesting to Dairymen. Important Magisterial Decision

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 March 1906 · page 1

At Sydney Water Police Court, Mr Payton, S.M, gave judgment in the case in which Henry Potte, dairyman, was proceeded against by William…

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London Butter Market

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

Butter.—The demand continued very [?] well up to the close of last week, [?] more active than is usually looked for [?] this holiday season. The Nineveh cargo [?]…

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Charge of Cattle Stealing

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 2

At Walcha Police Court on Thursday, 15th inst., before Messrs Walsh and C. Seckold. J'sP., Kenneth Mycbael was charged with stealing 18…

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Sydney Wool Sales

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

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 24th February:— Although no auctions have been held during the past week, there have been a…

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Walcha Police Court. Thursday, February 22Nd. Alleged Cattle Stealing. (Before Mr. Corbett Lawson, P.M.)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 4

KENNETH MICHAEL, was charged with stealing 13 head of cattle, the properly of Mr. J. K. Mackay, on or about the 11th January, 1906…

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Of Interest to Dairyman. Important Magisterial Decision

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 6

Mr Payton, S.M., gave judgment last week at the Water Police Court, in the case in which Henry Potts, dairyman, was proceeded against by…

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Dairying on the Manning

The Scone Advocate · Friday 2 March 1906 · page 3

ON the Manning, the dairies in 1902 numbered 430, in 1905, they had increased to 728; milking cows increased from 12,209 to 16,336. Some of the…

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London Butter Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 8

Butter.—The demand continued very good well up to the close of last week, being more active than is usually looked for at this holiday season. The Nineveh cargo so…

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Duckenfield Butter Factory

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 16

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Duckenfield Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., was convened for Thursday, the 22nd ultimo, but there was not a…

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COMMERCIAL. Sydney Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 1

After an interval of a fortnight auction sales were resumed in Sydney this week. Although the offerings generally bore an end of the season appearance we were able to put…

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Dairy Farm Drudgery

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 13

The current number of "The Station, Farm and Dairy" deals with the above subject, and states that if there is a matter of just complaint in any industry of New South…

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Farm and Field. Treatment of Young Horses

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 5

It is beyond question that a good manyyoung horses are ruined by harried breaking and training. Even the most docile of young stock reciuire time for…

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Strange Shooting Episode Dairyman Wounded

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 March 1906 · page 6

An extraordinary shooting affair is reported from Newsavale, 17 miles from Gympie (Q.). At midnight on Wednesday a dairyman named Percy…

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Pastoral Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 March 1906 · page 5

Australian Pastoral Company in its [?] report shows a profit of £12,740, [?] is applied to the reduction of the [?] balance…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 March 1906 · page 7

Mr. Stavenhagen, of Winchcombe, Carson, and Company, in regard to the wool trade in Sydney, says:—"Although the statistical your does not close until June 30 the…

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Farm and Dairy

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

From the New York "Country Gentleman" we take the following particulars of a number of tests made under the auspices of the American Jersey Cattle Club. The tests…

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