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Farming & the land, 1907

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Cattle Driving in Ireland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 5

Mr. David Sheehy, member for South Meath, speaking near Trim, recommended persistence in cattle driving in order to compel ranching landlords to sell their land…

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Mortality of Cattle. Experiments to Discover the Cause

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 2

So far as investigations respecting the deaths of the cattle in Campbell's paddock on Tuesday last go, it appears that there is nothing in the surround…

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Dairy Heifers for New England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 4

Mr. R. S. Collard, of Bolwarra, who during the past few months has sent away about 150 head of dairy cattle to dairymen in the Northern and New England…

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The Wool Sales Close

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 3

M the wool sales the following prices were [?]lised for the clips mentioned:—Mulwala, [?] Coree. 9d ; Talawanta, lld ; Moon[?] 11d ; Portallick, 11d ; Aangudee, 9d ;…

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Irish Cattle Driving. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 2

Mr Shoeehy, M.P., recommends persistent cattle driving to compel the landlords to sell their lands…

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The Wool Sales. London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 December 1907 · page 2

The wool sales closed yesterday, with prices slack, at about late rates…

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Irish Cattle-driving

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

[?] states of the Earl of Westmeath, 15,000 [?] in Galway, and of Lord Clonbrock, 24,000 Galway, have been raided, and hundreds of have been removed therefrom…

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Dutch Belted Cattle

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 5

The picturesque Dutch Belled cow spreads very slowly from her house in the Netherlands. In Australia she is a stranger, but with so pronounced a run…

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Sheep for the Coast

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 8

Mr Aloe. Hay of tho well-known Collongatta Estate, is the latest advocate of sheep for the coastal country. The question has been…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 4

Mossrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—More general competition from the different sections of the buying trade has been in evidence at recent auction sales, but no actual improvement in prices…

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Waterworks on the Farm

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 5

A new system or furnishing a house with its water supply as shown in the accompanying illustration, [?] thus described in a circular issued by the…

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The Dairy. Successful Milkers Must Practice Kindness

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 5

Every milker thinks he knows how to milk (writes Mrs Anna So[?] in the "Michigan Farmer") but if the cows could express their…

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Farm and Field. Green Manure for Potatoes

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 5

Potatoes should be planted in soil which has been brought into a good stale of tilth. Above the tubers it should be in a fine porous condition, so…

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G Farmyard Manure

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 13 December 1907 · page 5

During the recent International Agricultural Congress in Europe Professor Stoklosa read an interesting paper on farmyard manure. He gave a brief sketch of the views hitherto held and…

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Important to Dairymen

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

Dairymen are reminded that all dairies must be registered not later than the 15th instant for renewal. Every dairy not registered by the 1st…

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Dutch Belted Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 December 1907 · page 5

The picturesque Dutch Belted cow spreads very slowly from her home in the Netherlands. In Australia she is a stranger, but with so pronounced a run…

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A New Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1907 · page 4

The first sod or the new butter factory at Gresford, which is being erected as a branch of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, was turned on Thursday afternoon by…

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Cattle Driving in Ireland

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1907 · page 5
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

Sixteen persons charged with cattle driving at Ballinsbloe, Ireland, have been bound over to keep the peace. Four farms at Tulsk, Toubane, and…

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Sydney Wool Market

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

Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co. report:—We brought forward a splendid catalogue of super good wools, consisting of 2427 bales, of which we can report a clearance of 2029…

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