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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Sydney Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 September 1907 · page 2
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report:—Wool continues to flow freely into the various wool houses in Sydney, the season being…

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Vegetable Mutter in Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 September 1907 · page 5

[?]number of Australasian woolgrowers, London brokers, and users of wool at Bradford have conferred at Bradford, and have formed a committee to consider the best…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 September 1907 · page 3

All the ingredients in milk are in solution except the fat, whimch is in finely divided suspension, so fine, indeed, that a drop of milk contains 5,000,000 globules of fat…

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An Alligator Farm. Novel Australian Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 September 1907 · page 6

The steamer Elbing, which arrived in Melbourne a few days ago, has on board 75 alligator eggs, which have come all the way from the hot springs, Arkansas, United…

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Dairying in Queensland

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1907 · page 2

The advance of the dairying industry in Queensland during recent years has been phenomenal, and the State has established a record for…

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Fodder Crops for Sheep

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 7

A very instructive paper—"Fodder Crops for Sheep"—was read at recent meeting of the local Farmers' Association at Bute, South Australia, by Mr D…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 7

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:— Substantial wool catalogues were submitted in the Sydney market on the 4th and 5th instant, when 9,732 bales were shown for buyers' inspection…

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The Dairy Thickness of Cream

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 6

It Is well understood, both by the dairy farmer and the public, that the quality of cream is extremely variable. This, to a large extent, depends on the manner…

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Forecasting the Harvest. Action by the Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 4

As is well known, it has been for many years the practice of the Bureau of Statistics, which is now a branch of the Intelligence Department, to publish…

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A Dairying, Essential

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 14

The general use of ensilage os none of the essentials to success in dairy farming while out proper preparations for an [?] supply of fodder all the years round, the…

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Gold on the Road. a Lucky Farmer

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 September 1907 · page 4

A lucky discovery was made at Linton (Vie) on Thursday by Mr D. M'Donald, farmer lie dropped his whip from his waggon, and on going…

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Prime Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 September 1907 · page 4

There was a large supply of cattle at the Campbell's Hill saleyards to-day, and included in Mr. E. W. Sparke's consignments was a draft of 30 head of extra prime cattle,…

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Wool Traffic

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The railways returns show that the gratifying increase in the receipts of wool at the three shipping depots—Darling Harbor, Newcastle, and…

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Some Dairying Prospects

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 September 1907 · page 5

There was a marked fulling off in the yield as well as quality of butter on the northern rivers during the months of June and July. A reporter asked Mr. Halsted…

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Wool Arrivals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 5

The arrivals of wool number 106,000 bales. [?] these 38,500 have been forwarded direct to manufacturers and there are available for [?] series of sales with those left over…

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Dairy Congress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 September 1907 · page 5

The International Congress was opened at a Hague yesterday. Fifty British representatives attended. Sir Edward Strachey (who [?]sents the Agricultural Department in the…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 3

Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday. [?] was a fair attendance and competition [?] Offerings of fine merino wool were [?] and showed an advance of 5…

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Dairy Congress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 September 1907 · page 3

The Dairy Congress at the Hague unani[?] passed a resolution recommending [?] equipment of cow sheds, and [?]cating cowshed competitions. The…

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