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Farming & the land, 1907

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Winter School for Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1907 · page 2

The winter school for farmer's at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College is evidently an institution that has come to stay, and it is one that is almost sure to grow in grow in popularity as…

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Our Singleton Letter. Sale of Dairy Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 4

At Fosters yards yesterday Messrs. Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., conducted a most successful sale of dairy cattle Principally on account of Messrs. Allen and…

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Big Purchase of Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 2

A big purchase of stud merinos has just been completed in Victoria by Signor Miguel Bidart, of Estancion, Molles, Uruguay. He was accompanied by Mr.F.Crocker, of Monte Video, and personally…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 2

Dalgety and Company, Limited. Wool, Grain and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report:—Although there have been no…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 4

MESSRS. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—Although there have been no realisations of importance during the past week, a good report…

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Farm and Field. Fertilisers for Farm Crops

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 6

From a bullet[?] by Mr Arthur Goss on Fertilisers for Farm Crops, issued by the Michigan Agricultural Experiment Station, the following extract is taken:—…

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Farm and Field. Waste in Seed Sowing

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 4

It is said of a famous mustard maker that be made a fortune—not out of mustard consumed, but out of that left uneaten on the plates. In like manner if…

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The Farmers Page. Government Savings Bank

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 2

Persona desirous of obtaining loans from the Advance Department of the Government Savings Bank must make application on the…

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Farm Pars

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 May 1907 · page 2

Nearly everything we get is adulterated these times, even our piety. Lever Bros., the soap people, state that most of…

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American Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 5

Another sensational advance in wheat took we on the Chicago Exchange yesterday, the frame being partly due to reports of croploses in Russia. July wheat jumped from…

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Sydney Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 2

Messrs. Pitt" Son, and Badgery report:—The reported excessive damage to the American and German crops has caused intense excitement in the oversea markets, and prices for…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 5
Also in Singleton Argus

It the wool sales which closed yesterday fire were sold to home buyers 91,000 bales, in the Continent 51,000, to the United States 500, and there were held over 15,000 Morning…

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Market Reports. Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 15

Messrs. Dalgety & Company, Limited, wool, grain, and produce brokers, Sydney, report:—Although there have been no realisations of importance during the past week, a good report can be given as to the…

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Special Sale of Diary Cattle By Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 4

At our special sale of dairy cattle, held at Foster's yards on Thursday, there was a very large and representative attendance of buyers, all parts…

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Selecting a Dairy Herd

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 5

The young farmer is constantly asking himself if it will pay him to invest his money in a dairy. No outsider can tell for certain whether it will or not, for so…

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The Dairy. Selection of Breeding Stock

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 5

The general principle of heredity is that "like produces like." There are departures from this rule, but it proves true in the majority of instances, and it…

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Devon Crime. Farmers' Daughters' Adventures. Sensational Story

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 3

Before the Holsworthy magistrates, on Monday, 25th February, the young farm laborer, Robert Payne, of Black Torrington, Devon, was formally…

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Truth About Dry Farming. Campbell System Over-rated. Not a New One

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 6

Mr H. K. Bors, of Parkes, New South Wales, has received a letter from the United States Department of Agriculture, the contents of which will come as…

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Colonial Farmers London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 May 1907 · page 4

The Westminster "Gazatte" does not think it fair that 40 millions of people in Great Britain should be taxed to support colonial farmers who…

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