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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1908

1,362 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 35 of 69

The Farm Separator

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 7

Where the farm separator is used be particular about running it at even speed. Then as soon as the work is completed, wash it out thoroughly so that…

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Wrinkles for Dairymen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 7

Milk regularly, quietly, and quickly. Dogs and visitors are poor company at milking time Give the milk cans a sun bath as well as…

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Farms and Children

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 June 1908 · page 3

Exception is taken in the Nowra district to the statements made by Subinspector Smith, of Bega, concerning allegedly cruel child-sweating on dairy…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 June 1908 · page 4

FOR week ending May 30, 1908:— Wool.—The volume of business transacted in the local wool market during the past week has been small,…

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Canadian Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 3

Replying to a question in the House of Commons, Sir Edward Strachcy, representative of the Board of Agriculture, said the Board did not intend to remove the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At our wool sales yesterday we submitted an attractive catalogue Competition was keen and vigorous at an advance of…

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Farm Homes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1908 · page 2

A successful sheep-farmer from New Zealand, who has recently been travelling over the Darling Downs in Queensland, and has purchased land in that fertile territory, has…

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Sydney Wool Sales. an Improved Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 4

AFTER a somewhat long interval from May 7, the Sydney wool auctions were resumed on Tuesday afternoon at the Royal Exchange…

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Sydney Wool Market. New Zealand L. AND M. Co. REPORT

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 June 1908 · page 3

(BY WIRE.) AT our sale on Wednesday last, we submitted an attractive catalogue, Competition was keen and vigorous at an advance of 10 to 15 per cent on…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 7
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

Mgety and Company, Limited, report :—[?] sales were resumed in this market on day, 23rd instant, and were continued until 5th. During the three selling days the…

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Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 5

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At our wool sales yesterday we submitted an attractive catalogue. Competition was keen and vigorous at an advance of…

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The Dairy. Frozen Milk. a German Suggestion

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 6

The German authorities have come to the conclusion that there is room for [?]uch improvement in the methods of transporting milk. An address on the…

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Farm Ans Field. Steaming Ensilage

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 6

Probably no practice has wrought a greater or more beneficial change in dairy farming than the very generally adopted plan of siloing. A few years…

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Violet Farming. a Profitable Industry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 3

Some years ago, we learn from the April "Windsor Magazine," two ladies, the Misses Allen-Brown, retired to the charming little Sussex village of…

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Dairying in Japan. a Progressive Industry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 6

There is probably no country in the world that is making greater strides in industrial development than Japan. Concerning the dairying Industry a…

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Warning to Dairymen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 4

At the Gresford Police Court, on Wednesday, a dairyman, Edward Turnbull, was proceeded against for having felled to report to the local authority a case diphtheria…

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Experimental Farming

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 13

[?] J. Perry, Minister of Agriculture, reported to Sydney on Thursday from his [?] of inspection to the Glen Innes Experimental Farm. The trip was undertaken with…

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Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 13

The business done by the new loans branch at the Government Savings Bank amounts to [?] £1,000,000. The applications for loans [?] principally from the Northern Rivers, and…

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Help in the Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1908 · page 13

The future of dairying will be much influenced by the source from which help can be obtained to carry it on. The dairyman is mo£ dependent on labour than those…

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