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Farming & the land, 1907

1,409 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 35 of 71

Farm Ahd Field. Treating Seed Oats for Smut

The Scone Advocate · Friday 28 June 1907 · page 3

Oat smut is one of the worst enemies of tho oat crop ; it frequently causes losses of 5 or 10 per cent of the yield. Many do not seem to realise the deadly…

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The Butter Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 5

Mr. J. W. Taverner, Agent-General for Victoria and Mr. J. G. Jenkins, Agent-General for South Australia, yesterday interviewed Sir Edward Strachey, representative of the…

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The World's Wheat Yield

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 6

While the world's wheat crop, according to Beerbohm's compilation, is 433,000,000 quarters, or 10,000,000 more than that of last year, the biggest crop…

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Large Dairy Returns. a New Zealand Farmer’s Yield

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 3

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…

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Farm and Field. Treating Seed Oats for Smut

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 6

Oat smut is one of the worst enemies of the oat crop; it frequently causes losses of 5 or 10 per cent, of the yield. Many do not seem to realise the deadly…

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British Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 29 June 1907 · page 5

Continued ruins are threatening he British hay crop. The Board of Agriculture has issued circulars calling the attention of fanners to advantages of ensilage…

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Sheep Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 1 July 1907 · page 5

Some high prices were paid for merino sheep at to-day's sheep sales…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 2 July 1907 · page 6

It cannot be too strongly impressed upon dairy fanners that protection from the severe cold of winter should be provided for dairy cattle. The economical production of…

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Wool Arrivals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 5

The arrivals of wool number 290,000 bales. Of those 148,000 have been forwarded direct to the manufacturers, and there are available for the fourth series of sales, with those…

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A Progressive Wool Firm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 2

We are in receipt of an intimation from John Bridge and Company, Ltd, that their managerial staff has been increased by the inclusion of Mr. Allen Taylor…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1907 · page 4

For week ending June 29, 1907: —Wool.—The closing week of the wool year has been a very quiet one, and owing to the small quantity of…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 July 1907 · page 3

Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday with fair animation. Prices were in buyers' favour. Mention were from 5 to 10 centimes below April quotations. Fine crossbreds were…

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Leconfield Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 4

Our Branxton correspondent reports that a successful meeting in connection with the cooperative butter factory movement was held at Dalwood on Thursday night. It is understood…

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A Progressive Wool Firm

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 4

We are in receipt of an intimation from John Bridge and Company, Ltd.,that their Managerial Staff has been increased by the inclusion of Mr. Allen Taylor and…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 4

The Australian Mortgage. Land and Finance Co.,Limited. John [?]: and Co., Dalgety , and Co., Limited Goldsbrough, Mort and Co.,Limited,, Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Limited,…

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Improving the Butter Industry. A Standard for Factory Managers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 3

Mr Geo. Priestly, of Goatwyck, Paterson, has sent to Mr O'Callaghan, dairy expert, some suggestions for the…

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British Crops Damaged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 5

Several weeks of continuous rain have done great damage to the crops of the United Kingdom and fruit and agricultural prospects are severely affected. Hay is rotting in the fields…

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Dairying on Shares. a Demand for Vacancies

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 4

THE State Intelligence Department reports that a considerable number of the immigrant families who are arriving in Sydney every week express a desire…

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The Dairy English Cheese Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 July 1907 · page 4

No product of the farm has met with a more appreciative market during the past year or two than cheese of a popular variety, and good standard quality…

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The Butter Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1907 · page 5

The Council of the British Dairy Farmers' Association has passed a resolution approving of the Butter Bill…

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