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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 7 August 1907 · page 4

FOR-week ending August 3, 1907: —Wool.—The local market continues very quiet business being confined to dealing with passed in lots from the…

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Raymond Terrace Co-operatite Dairy Co

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 August 1907 · page 2

During July the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy Co. manufactured 37 tons 8 cwt. of butter, being 1¾ tons more than for June. Suppliers were paid— July 1 to 5…

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Succession of Wheat Crops

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 4

Mr Prout. or saw bridgeworth, Here­fordshire, England, the "Mark Lane Ex­press" states has grown wheat year after year profitably, with the aid of…

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Footrot in Sheep

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 4

In the very old days, when the sheep were mostly merino, footrot was incessant, and men used to be turned on to cut the long hoofs off, with a mallet and…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 8

DALGETY and Co., Ltd., Wool, Grain and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report:—Since the last public sales there has been a fair private enquiry,…

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Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 2

The annual general meeting of shareholders of the above factory was held in the Victoria Hall on Wednesday afternoon last, when…

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Farm and Field. Aa Ohio Farmer on Potato Growing

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 4

In a recent Issue of the "American Agriculturalist" there is an article on potato-growing by one of the beat potato experts in the State of Ohio. The…

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Farm Labourers As Immigrants

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 4

The Government's immigration policy, is maintaining a steady inflow from the United Kingdom of farm-labourers and strong, willing lads, who have by…

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Australian Farmers Should Be Satisfied

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 7

SOMETIMES a good deal is heard about Australian settlors being dissatisfied and making a change in their location. Not infrequently Canada is the chosen…

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Farm Training for City Lads. (Dr. Richard Arthur, M.l.a.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 6

There are many city boys who have a natural bent for a country life, just as there are lads born and bred in the bush who find their true avocation in the great…

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Farm Rain Gauge

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 4

An inexpensive and handy rain gauge is shown in the acompanying illustration, which is reproduced from the "Education Gazette" (South Australia):…

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Farm and Field. Heredity in Breeding

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1907 · page 4

That the characteristics of parents are transmitted to their offsprings la a fact very well known to all engaged in the breeding of live stock. Everybody knows…

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The Butter Bill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 5

The Butter Bill has passed the committee stage in the House of Lords with a few minor amendments…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 7

Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—The generous rainfall of the past week has heartened up pastoralists in most districts of the State, and may be regarded as a most…

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Dairy and Farm Machinery

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

The firm of P. W. Russell and Co., Limited, to whoso advertisement in this issue we wish to draw attention, in the well-known Newcastle house, whose history has been one of rapid…

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Farm Bain Gauge

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

An inexpensive and handy rain gauge is shown in the acompanying Illustration, which is reproduced from the "Education Gazette" (South Australia):…

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Farm and Field. Heredity in Breeding

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

That the characteristics of parents are transmitted to their offsprings is a fact very well known to all engaged in the breeding of live stock. Everybody knows…

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Farmers' Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 4

Under the susp[?]s of the committee of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, the fourth of the series of farmers' meeting in connection with the…

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Self Education ir Dairying

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 12

It is not possible to call attention in one brief article to all the many important objects which must receive the attention of the dairyman if he is to make a success of the business…

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The Farm and Garden. Soy Beans

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1907 · page 6

Soy beans are adapted to a much wider of climate than cow peas, says a farmers' bulletin issued by the United States Department of Agriculture. As a forage crop, soy beans…

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