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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

1,362 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 15 of 69

Sale of Dairy Stock

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 March 1908 · page 2

Attention is directed to an advertisement elsewhere, announeing a clearingout sale of dairy stock at "Webbville Park." Scone, to-morrow, at 10.30. The…

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The Dairy. Salt for Cattle

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 5

It is evident that dairymen have not fully realised the Importance of giving their cows access to salt. In its connection some very interesting…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 5

The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday. The market was inanimate and morines showed a decline of 5 per cent on the previous sale, final crossbreds 10 per cent…

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Shearing of Wet Sheep. Interesting Judgment. Tamworth

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 8

The shearing dispute case, F. Mason v. J. F. Vickery, Bective Estate, was concluded in the District Court this morning. Acting-Judge Armstrong,…

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Advising The Farmer

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 5

It is amusing, when travelling by train (observes a writer In the "Otago Witness") to hear various occupants of the smoking carriage discussing the…

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Farm and Field. Stooking by Machinery

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 March 1908 · page 5

A Canadian, James Calder by name, is, according to a Canadian contemporary, the inventor of what he claims to be an entirely practical grain shocker,…

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The Dairy. Salt for Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 5

It is evident that dairymen have not fully realised the importance of giving their cows access to salt. In its connection some very interesting…

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Sheep Disease

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 3

I am asked to say how can a sheepowner distinguish between the various kinds of blood poisons in sheep. As sheep get fat they are more liable to those complaints…

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Faults in Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 3

A writer in "Hoard's Dairyman," an American paper, says:—"Such faults as coarse, unclean, weedy, smothered or feverish, yeasty or fermented old state and [?]…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 5

Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday. The features— a declining market and no animation—which were notie cable on Wednesday showed on changed ; 4508 bales of La Plata wool were…

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Commercial Intelligence. Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 7

Messrs. Schute, Hell, 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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Advising The Farmer

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 5

It is amusing, when travelling by train (observes a writer in the "Otago Witness"). to hear various occupants of the smoking carriage discussing the…

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Farm and Field. Stooking by Machinery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 5

A Canadian, James Colder by name, is, according to a Canadian contemporary, the inventor of what he claims to be an entirely practical grain shocker,…

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The Farm Separator

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 3

One of the greatest objections urged against the hand separator ia that cream gets too sour before being delivered to the cremmery. This condition is brought about…

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Experimental Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 2

The Minister or, Apiculture, Mr. Perry, has tinder consideration a scheme for Increasing the educational value of the Agricultural Colleges and Experimental mental Farms…

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Dulwich Dairy Herd

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 4

We have been requested, to direct attention to the highly important clearing out sale on Saturday next by Messrs. Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., of the whole of Mr. O…

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Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 3

As the result of reports made by officers visiting the dairying districts, the Minister of Agricultural (Mr. J. Perry) desires to point out that in some parts dairy farmers suffer considerably by the…

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Dairying Statistics

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 4

Dairying statistics for 1906 have only just come to hand, but, late as they are, they are worthy of notice as indicating the rapid strides that the dairying industry is making. The…

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Sale of a Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 7

Mr. Henry Turner, auctioneer, Wingham, reports the sale of Mr. William Brown's farm of 181 1/2 acres, near Wingham, to Mr. Robert Muldoon, at a satisfactory price…

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Farms on the Hunter River Flats

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 March 1908 · page 4

"Hunter River Flats." a phrase which conjures up visions of fields of deep rich soil covered with lucerne, maize, millet, root crops, of sleek dairy cattle. busy…

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