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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

1,362 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 22 of 69

The successful Scientific Farmer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1908 · page 4

Often in quite a casual way, in the coarse of an ex-office chat, as it were, an item of interest is heard from someone who is worth listening to. Mr. H. W. Potts, principal ef the Hawkesbury…

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Improvement of Dairy Stock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 April 1908 · page 6

With the object of improving their herds of dairy stock local farmers have visited tho Sydney Show with the object of trying to secure some of the Jersey bulls to be sold…

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Butter Making on the Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 13

The principles of making butter are easily understood. When studied from the standpoint of present knowledge, most of the mystery that formerly surrounded the…

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Tanning a Sheep Pelt

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 6

Sheepskins make fine mats when they are tanned in a proper manner. When the pelt is removed from the sheep it should be thoroughly salted on its flesh…

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American Wool Trust

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 5

Four thousand woolgrowers of Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, and Arizona, are forming a trust with a capital of £20,000,000. They hope to dictate terms to the Eastern mills…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 6

Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—It has now been decided to resume auction sales in this centre during the second week in May, the exact sale days and relative roster of soiling brokers to be fixed…

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The Dairy. Milking Shorthorns

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 6

During recent years increasing attention has been bestowed by dairy farmers upon the development of the milk yielding capacities of dairy cattle…

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Farm and Field. Crimson Clover

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 6

Tri[?]olium, or crimson clover, is one of the most useful catch crops any farmer can grow, and it is one of the easiest crops to put in. It requires, of…

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Train Transit for Farm Produce

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 8
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The strikes, the wreck, and the bar harbour troubles of the steamship people, show up once more the disa bilities that farmers on the coastal…

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Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 13

The following applications for land have been lodged with the Crown Land Agent. East Maitland:—Conditional Lase, Thos. C. Smith, 120 acres, parish of Hay:…

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Hints for Dairymen

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 13

Raise the calves by hand and substitute vegetable fat in the form of ground flax-seed jolly, and fater corn-meal, etc., in connection with skim milk…

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Teain Transit for Farm Produce

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 2

The strikes, the wreek, and the bar harbour troubles of the steamship people, show np once more the disabilities that farmers on the coastal rivers labour…

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Training Lads for Farm Work. (To the Editor)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 5

Sir,—No doubt you are aware of the efforts that the Immigration League of Australasia, 14 Moore-street, Sydney, is making to secure lads for farmers…

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Singleton Central Co-Operative Dairy Co., Ltd

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 April 1908 · page 4

Output for four weeks ending March 21st, 60¼ tons for which suppliers received cheques for all grades amounting to £6089/9/7. less manufacturing…

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The Farm and Dairy. Phosphates and Animals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 6

The role played by phosphates is of the highest importance, both in the vegetable and animal economy. Phosphates, as is well known, make the sugar more abundant in…

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Dairy Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 4

The butter factors' managers are in n position to do much to help on the progress of ono of one most important primary industries, an industry which is reckoned to employ about…

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The Dairy Cow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 6

The cow utilises her food either for the elaboration of milk or tho taking on of flesh (says a dairyman in the "Prairie Farmer"), and she yields nothing in either direction except by food taken…

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Essentials in Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 April 1908 · page 6

The Dairy Supervisor in Victoria, writing in the official journal, says that very few dairy farmers treat their business with tho same general attention to detail as do those…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 April 1908 · page 3

Schute, Boll, and Co. report:—The splendid rains which have fallen during the Easter holidays have overshadowed all immediate considerations concerning the wool market, relief from the most…

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