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Farming & the land, 1907

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Sheep for the Annual Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 June 1907 · page 2

Some very fine lots of rams will be brought to Muswellbrook to-morrow, in route to the annual sheep sales in Sydney, from the famous Brindley Park and Colloroy flocks,…

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Large Dairy Returns. A New Zealand Farmer's Yield

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 26 June 1907 · page 1

THE following extraordinary returns relating to a dairy farm on the Waimate Plains, N Z, are vouched for by the Hawera Star:—It appears that in…

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A Prime Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 4

We were shown this morning Messrs. A. Bailey and Son, of the Model butchering establishment, the carcase of & remarkably fine crossbred wether, which when weighed, turned the scales at exactly 131lbe…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 6

Messrs. Schute, Bell and Co., report:-Last week's sales confirmed anticipations as the probable co[?] of the market, values having been practically unchanged as compared with rates current at the May…

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Sydney Sheep Show. a Record Entry

Singleton Argus · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 1

The annual exhibition of the New South Wales Sheep-breeders- Association was opened at the Royal Agricultural Society's Grounds, Sydney, on…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 3

Which ia the cheaper way of keeping the cow warm, shelter or feed? The living cow must be kept warm in some way. When shelter ia neglected she turns food that should go to…

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Our Dairy Herds

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 4

A discovery which would lead to the dairy dairy of the State becoming more valuable by 50 per cent, per cow in live years would rightly as a remarkable…

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Sale of a Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 4

Mr. E. W. Sparke offered at the Campbell's Hill Saleyards this afternoon an agricultural farm, situated near the Tarro Railway station, containing 92½ acres, on…

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The Dairying Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 8

Wilbur J. Fraser, of the University of [?]inois, writing in the "Prairie Farmer," says :— Ca[?] raising is a natural part of the…

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Queensland Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 4

Attention is directed to an advertisement in this issue in which particulars are given rf a number of dairy und agricultural farms for sale in the West Moreton district! Queensland, further particular…

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Farmers' Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 4

The third of the series of farmers' meetings in connection with the Department of Agriculture, will be held in the School of Arts at Large to-morrow (Friday) evening, at 7.30 o'clock, when…

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Topics of the Day. Tidy Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 June 1907 · page 6

During last months Mr. A. W. Pearse, [?] proprietor and acting editor of the [?] Review," spent a few days in South Australia. In the June number of his [?]…

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Butter Grading

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 5

Mr. T. Bent, Premier of Victoria, and Mr. J. W. Taverner, the Agent-General. attended a meeting of the Home and Foreign Produce Exchange yesterday, and discussed the…

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Stud Sheep Show

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 2

The New South Wales thirteenth annual sheepbreeders' show opened in Sydney on Monday last, and it is regarded as the finest representation of merino…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Sydney, report under date 25th inst.:—Last week's sales confirmed anticipations as to the probable course of the market, values…

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The World's Wheat Yield

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 3

"While the world's wheat crop, according to Beerbohm's compilation, is 400,000,000 quarters, or 10,000,000 more than that of last year, the biggest crop…

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Disease in Cattle. An Extraordinary Discovery

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 3

From time to time paragraphs have appeared in this paper and other district journals (says the R. R. HERALD)…

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Farm and Field. Experiments with Potatoes

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 4

Some instructive experiments with po[?]t[?] have been carried out this season by Mr L.W[?]n, of clarev[?]e, New Z[?]land. The conditions were [?]flar in…

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Farm Pars

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 3

The good rains which have soaked the country during recent weeks have assured a good season for our dairy…

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Anticipations Warwick Farm. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 2

The following should give a good account of themselves on Saturday:— Hurdle Race: Loch Lala or sir Faust, Satinvader next best. Liverpool Mile: Kestrel, Epic…

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