Commercial Intelligence. Sydney Wool Market
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 6
The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., report :—Our catalogue on Tuesday embraced a few medium to good clips, with a fair proportion of unskirted small clips, and a fair…
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The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 5
No substance is so suitable for floors for farm buildings as concrete. It can be easily kept clean, and is free from all smells likely to be troublesome on…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Dairy. the Special Purpose Cow
The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 5
Mr T. L. Haecker, of the Minnesota Agricultural College, U.S.A., is a firm believer in the "special purpose" dairy cow. In his opinion, any other kind of…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 11
Extensive deposits of sand and mud were left by the flood waters on some of the farms at Raworth. On Mr. C. R. Garnham's farm, which was completely submerged, the lucerne has been covered…
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The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 11
There are some things the average houses wife needs to learn about washing vessels that come in contact with milk. The dish cloth found in the average kitchen should…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →Sydney Social Gossip an Idle Woman's Letter. Sydney, March 3, 1908. "The Dairymaids."
The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 7
Dear Madge.— In one of my recent letters I mentioned something about the new outline, about the peculiar robes in the style beloved of the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Experimental Farms
Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 6
During an interview at Bathurst on Thursday, Mr Terry, the Minister for Agriculture, who is on a visit to the experimental farm, said the department…
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Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 March 1908 · page 6
An inquest was held at Wellington on Wednesday before Mr Read district coroner Respcting the death of Mr G. E. Wall. Sen. a well-known farmer at…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Wool and Wheat
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 March 1908 · page 2
Wool received by rail at the Darling Harbour Railway Depot during the post week was 1650 bales, a decrease of 1213 bales on a similar period last year. Far the season 709, 171 hales…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 March 1908 · page 2
The amount, of wool received at Darling Harbor during the week was 1650 bales, a decrease of 1213 bales on the receipts for the corresponding week of…
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Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 March 1908 · page 1
As the result of reports made by offices visiting the dairying districts, the Minister for Agriculture (Mr A. Perry) desires to point out that in some parts…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Sydney Wool Market
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 6
Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:-A considerable contingent of buyers is at present in Brisbane, where catalogues aggregating about 12,000 bales were submitted yesterday. Naturally…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 5
Arrivals of wool number 340,500 bales. Of these 169,500 have been forwarded to the manufactures direct, and there are available for the next series with those left over from the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farm and Dairy. Cherseys in Demand
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 7
These appears during the last few weeks says the "Mark Lane Express") to be a easter demand for milking breeds than has probably ever been experienced, and though…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Suggestions for Dairymen
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 7
Milk should not be used within fifteen days of parturition, or during the first five days after parturition. All cows should be dried off at least fifteen days before calving, not only for…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairying Statistics
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 4
Dairying statistics for 1900 have only just come to hand, but, Into us they are, they are worthy of notice us indicating tho rapid strides that the dairying industry in making…
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The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 7
"There is nothing like leather." But there is nothing like knowing how to keep your leather goods in fine condition. too Leather is composed of a mass of line…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairying in Western Strerin
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 7
Writing Of the idairying industry in Western Siberia. Mr. C. I. Keightly says It is curious to notice the avidity with which the Russian moujik adopts the separator and the…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Raymond Terrace Dairy and Produce Co., Ltd
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 March 1908 · page 4
The factory report for Februay, 1908. indicates that the butter market during the month ranged from 108s to 120s, the month closing at 116s per cent. for best…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Australian Pastoral Company
The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 March 1908 · page 3
Mr. Justice Neville, in the Chancery Division of the High Court of Justice, has confirmed the resolution of the Australian Pastoral Company to reduce its ordinary capital (£550,000) by 85…
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