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Farming & the land, 1907

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Cattle Sale withdrawn

Singleton Argus · Thursday 30 May 1907 · page 2

As will be soon by advertisement in this issue, a big sale of two thousand head of store cattle, previously advertised by Mr J. P. Martin, of…

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The Cattle Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 May 1907 · page 4

There was a big fall here during the week the value of fat stock and stores, the continued dry weather being the cause. Thursday morning…

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The Dairying Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 30 May 1907 · page 2

A helpful conference has just taken place in West Maitland between dairy experts of the State Agricultural Department and managers and directors of butter factories. These…

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The Butter Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 4

Speaking at the annual conference of the Australasian Butter Factories' Managers' Association in Melbourne recently, the Minister of Agriculture, , Mr. Swinburne, said that the more frequent…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 2

Dalgety and Company, Limited, Wool, Grain and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report:— After an interval of five weeks, wool…

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The Wool Trade

The Scone Advocate · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 4

"WOOLBUYER" writes:—I would like to make comment re the article which appeared in your issue of Saturday morning last dealing with the above…

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Care of Cream on the Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 6

In a recent bulletin of the Wisconsia Station discussing a number of creamery problems, E. H. Farrington makes some statements regarding the care of cream on the…

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Farm Pars

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 2

Local dairy farmers would welcome a good fall of rain just now, the grass on the pastuees having become very scant during the past…

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A Big Dairy Co

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 2

Foremost among the large butter factories of the State is the North Coast Co-operative Company, with its head quarters at Byron Bay…

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The Farmers' Page. More Land Wanted

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1907 · page 2

An echo to the cry for "more land," which has arisen from this district, sounds from Coolongolook, where a number of selectors are…

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Denman Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 2

The Denman Co-operative Company's Butter Factory, expected by Messrs. Waugh and Josephson, will, it is expected, be opened officially early in June…

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The Dairy. New Test for Moisture in Butter

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 4

Among the many things of interest presented before butter-makers at the recent meeting of the Iowa State Dairy As. soclatlon, recently held at Cedar Rapids,…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 11

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited., report:—After an interval of five weeks, wool sales were held in the Sydney Wool Exchange on Tuesday to Thursday last, 21st to 23rd instant, when 10,989 bales…

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The Butter Industry. Conference in Maitland

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 15

There was a very representative gathering at the School of Arts on Tuesday afternoon of factory managers and others interested in the great butter-producing industry along the…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 13

Cow-testing associations, similar to those in Denmark, are being established in Canada. When any 20 farmers agree to weigh the milk from each cow on the three days…

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Farm and Field. Nitrogen from the Air

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 4

Speaking at a recent conference of farmers held in Canada, Professor Saunders, of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, recerred to recent experiments…

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The Milking Machine As a Factor in Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 7

For more than, half a century scores of inventors have been trying thier hand at the construction of a machine which could do its work satisfactorily and without injury to the…

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Empire Day at Dairy Arm

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 1 June 1907 · page 4

Brearthes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said. This is my own, my native [?] The above event was celebrated here…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 June 1907 · page 2

During last week 539 bales of wool were received at the depots at Sydney, Newcastle, and Morpeth. The receipts for the Benson total 739,234 bales, which is an increase of 79.917 baled on the figures for the…

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Big Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 3 June 1907 · page 2

A large deal in Queensland cattle has just been transacted by Mr. J. P. Martin, stock and station agent, of Bourke, he having completed the sale of 1700 head of Buckingham towns cattle, on account…

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