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Farming & the land, 1907

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Leicester Sheep for Warrah

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 2

For the A.A. Co., Warrah, Willow Tree, there arrived from New Zealand, per S.S. Wimmera, on Tuesday, 200 Border Leicestor ewes. Hitherto there Have been few…

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London. Wool Sales

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 3

The arrivals for'the January wool sales are, expected to total 200,000 bales. There has been some agitation in favor of a limit in the number of…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 5

Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—A particularly satisfactory feature of the closing sales of the year last week was the revival of American demand for superior quality wools…

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The Fall in Wool Values. S. M. Herald, Dec. 12, 1907

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 2

Mr. H. C. M'Culloch writes:—Mr. Francis Bacon's recent letters, and your own sub-leader of the 9th inst., have undoubtedly been the means of reawakening…

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The Wool Season. Sales Postponed to January 21. Adverse Money Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 4

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

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Heavy Rains in Queensland. Grape Crop Spoiled

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 December 1907 · page 3

Wet weather still prevails in Queenslaud. Burcaldine (Central Queensland) reports that the rainfall has been very general, averaging from 4 to 11 inches…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1907 · page 2

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

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Sydney-Brisbane Wool Sales. The Fall in Wool Values. S.M. Herald, Dec. 12, 1907

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1907 · page 1

Mr. H: C. M'Culloch writes:—Mr. Francis Bacon's recent letters, and your own subleader of the 9th inst., have undoubtedly been the means of re-awakening…

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The Dairy. Municipal Milk Depots

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1907 · page 6

The following are the main provisions of the Bill introduced into the House of Commons by Mr John Burns, President of the Local Government Board,…

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Farm and Field. Growing Crous Deposit Lime

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 December 1907 · page 6

Recent research hag shown that crops in their process of growth leave behind In the soil a residue of lime, which may account for the fact that average crops…

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Cattle Driving

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 December 1907 · page 3

The "Daily Express states that cattle belonging to Mrs. Carr at Ballygow, sister-in-law to the Archbishop of Melbourne, were driven away off the land, and left to stray about…

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Experimental Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 December 1907 · page 2

There is a very prevalent but very foolish notion abroad that Government experimented farms are not fulfilling their purpose if they are not made directly payable, and the…

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The Farm and Dairy. Brief Notes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 December 1907 · page 7

In Japan a family subsists on a farm of one to five acres. It is said that in Algeria the horses [?] the human beings…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 6

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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Cattle Driving in Ireland. London, Dec. 21

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 2

Mr. H. H. Asquith, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the course of a speech at Aberdeen said that cattle driving was reprehensive and peculiarly unpatriotic, tending to cripple as it did one…

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Queensland Farms

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 8

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…

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Experimental Farms

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 4

There is a very prevalent but very foolish notion abroad that Government experimental farms are not fulfilling their purpose if they are not made directly payable, and the…

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Making Cheese on the Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 12

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

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Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 12

It is reported, on information alleged to be authentic, that the State Government will shortly apply the provisions of the Closer Settlement Act, for the purpose of acquiring Killarney Estate, just outside…

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Fine Farms

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 December 1907 · page 4

In this Issue is advertised a fine lot of Crown lands for selection "the pick of the Jimbour Estate," In Quccnsland. These lands will be opened for selection…

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