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Farming & the land, 1907

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A Great Wool Year

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 11

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, in their summary of the 1906-7 wool year, commencing July 1, 1906, and closing June 30, 1907, find that the past year's clip has been a record one for…

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Commercial. the Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 11

Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—The London sales are progressing satisfactorily, keen demand being current for all descriptions of merinos, with specially active competition in evidence…

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Farm and Field. Malting Barley

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 6

Unlike the wheat crop, which can be grown on almost any description of soil, barley of a fine malting quality can only be grown on a special and very limited…

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Farmers' Sons

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 14

We are constantly being reminded of the unhealthy ami unfortunate smallness of our rural population, which is much less than it ought to be, both absolutely and…

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The Farm and Garden. Fumigation for Red Scale

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 July 1907 · page 12

The fumigation of citrus trees under the system advocated by Mr. W. J. Allen is still practised in New South Wales orange groves. Fumigation operations have just…

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Farmers and Irrigation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 July 1907 · page 5

Regarding the question, of irrigation there appears to be no decided opinion expressed by farmers and graziers of this State. During the drought period a great deal was…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 3

At the wool sales all classes of wool are meeting with keener competition. Merinos are very firm, and crossbreds are hardening…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 4

THE Australian Mortgage, Land and Finance Co., Ltd., John Bridge and Co., Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., Harrison, Jones and…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 July 1907 · page 4

WINCHCOMBE, Carson and Co. Ltd , reprort:—The latest reports re the London wool sales show a drop in values of 7 1/2 to 10 per cent. on all short and…

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Wool Versus Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 2

If wheat had to pay the same freight as wool, no wheat could be profitably grown for export. So says Mr. W. E. Abbott. And, so far, he is probably…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 3

Meesrs. Schute, Bell; and Co. report:—Judging by the firmness in prices in evidence at the Brisbance sales last week, more especially for all the better grades of wool, and the…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 5

the wool sales prices of the clips [?] were:—Fernleigh, 14fd; Springvale, Urisino, 23fd; Dungalcar, 19fd; [?] 25fd; Morven Hill, 21fd…

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Wool and Horsehair

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 2

Horsehair has settled the shearers' dispute. In other words Mr. Justice O'Connor, out of the profundity of his legal lore, has decided that the rate…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 7

During the year just, closed 1345 Holstein-Friesian cows and heifers of all ages were officially tested for a period of seven consecutive days, or longer, by the Holstein-Friesian…

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Fodder Crops

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 2

It does not follow, however, that cultivation need be confined to wheat, Mr. Abbott is doing good service in another direction by showing the value…

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Dairying in Denmark

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 July 1907 · page 8

During the early part of the present year the Agent-General of South Australia (the Hon. J. G. Jenkins) and the Commercial Agent (Mr. A. E. M. Norton) paid a visit to the Continent…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 3

At the wool sales yesterday prices for the clips mentioned were:—Nelyambo. 9¾d; Sandown, 17¾d; Moeraki, 12£d; Awhea, 11½d; Napier, 10½d…

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Cattle Driving in Ireland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 3

The Judge has granted the Solicitor-General's application for a change of venue in the trial of 87 drivers of cattle on te ground that a fair trial in Galway was impossible…

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Our Singleton Letter. Central Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 July 1907 · page 2

The Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Company, Limited, report for the four weeks ended June 15, 1907, having manufactured 75,671lb. of butter, equal to 33…

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