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Farming & the land, 1907

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Railway Accident at Singleton. Cattle Thain Derailed

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

A sensational derailment took place at the Singleton railway station about half-past 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. A goods train was standing on tho platform…

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The Port Kembla Hurricane. Cattle Blown Into a Lake

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

Reports continue to come to hand showing the hurricane force of the gale at Wollongong on Monday last. Strange to say it was not felt at Dapto; while at…

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Stock Train Derailed Several Trucks Smashed. Narrow Escape of Drivers and Firemen. Number of Sheep Killed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 December 1907 · page 2

There was a sensational accident at the local railway station yesterday afternoon, disorganising traffic for several hours. A stock train, with about 50…

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Cattle-driving Prosecutions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 5

The cases of cattle driving, in which juries have disagreed, will be retried at Dublin before special juries…

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Protecting Sheep from Dogs

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 4

W. Schmidt writes thus to the S. M. Herald:—"Having heard so much lately about the damage done by dingoes and foxes to sheep, I…

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Sydney wool Market

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 2

HARRISON, JONES & DEYLIN REPORT:—For our last sale prior to the Christmas recess we submitted on attractive catal­ogue of 3628 bales. Competition was…

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Lizards in the Cream. Our Daily Butter

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 7

The Royal Commission appointed in South Australia to consider questions relating to the marketing of produce took some evidence of…

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Sydney Wool Market. SYDNEY

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency, Co. report:—At our wool sale yesterday we found better demand and animated competition for good wools, but…

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A Busy Corner. Sydney's Wool Stores

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 3

One of the busiest corners in Sydney at the present time is where the main portion of the Wool Stores are situated at Pyrmont. At this period of the year the wool…

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Wool and the Standard of Living

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 6

No special knowledge of the trade itself is required to recognise consumption of wool (says the "Times" Commercial Supplement), for this results from the social and economic progress of…

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The Farm and Dairy. Training This Helper

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 3

I like a man to approach his cow with the bucket in the right hand and the stool in the left, to speak quietly, and to make the cow set her foot in proper position…

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Making Cheese on the Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 December 1907 · page 3

Any quantity of sweet milk from a pailful upward can be made into a sweet-card cheese, rich and creamy in taste, which may be used in a month or his weeks, yet keeps well. The Gouda…

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Breeding Dairy Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 12

One thing ought always to be considered when men start out to buy pure-bred cattle, says "Hoard's Dairyman." That is, that the knowledge, skill, and character of the…

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Cattle Driving in Ireland. London, Dec. 14

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 11

The estates of the Earl of Westmeath, 15,000 acres, in Galway, and of Lord Clonbrock, 24,000 acres, Galway, have been raided, and hundreds of cattle have been removed therefrom…

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Railway Accident at Singleton. Cattle Train Derailed

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 2

A sensational derailment took place at the Singleton railway station about half-past 2 o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. A goods train was standing, on the platform…

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Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1907 · page 12

There were 72 applications for one block of land in the Wagga district. Mr. P. C. Watt, of Goonal Station, Moree, has just had a bore completed on his holding. It is of a…

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Wool Arrivals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 December 1907 · page 5

Arrivals of wool for the January Bains are expected to roach 200,000 bales. There is some agitation for a limit to the number to be offered, but the importers' committee at a…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 December 1907 · page 7

Owing to the heavy and increasing withdrawals of wools offered at auction during the past few weeks, the Sydney wool selling brokers held a prolonged meeting last…

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Irish Nationalist Methods. Cattle Driving. London. Dec. 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 December 1907 · page 5

Recently Mr. Laurence Ginnell. M.P., Nationalist, delivered a speech at Kilskyre. Meath, advocating cattle driving. A summons was thereupon issued, directing him to…

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Queensland Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 December 1907 · page 4

Attention is directed to an advertisement in this issue relative to Crown lands in Queensland, the pick of the Jimbour Estate, which will be open for selection under the provisions of the Closer…

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