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Farming & the land, 1909

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Dairy Arm

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 19 June 1909 · page 3

The residents held a meeting on the 10th inst., at the local school, for the purpose of forming a Parents’ and Citizens’ Association, Mr. W…

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Diseased Cattle Condemned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 June 1909 · page 2

During the past twelve months 124 head of cattle were condemned at the municipal yards. Camphell's Hill. by Senior—constable Dolman. Of this number 105 were affected with tuberculosis, 16…

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The Butter Trade

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 3

Last week we had a visit from Mr A. Welch a representative of Wm. Haughton & Co., who has just arrived from London. He informs…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 7

Hill, Clark, and Co. report:—Auctions will not ha hold in Sydney again until early in July, and in the interval nu[?]rs must continue very quiet. When the…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 June 1909 · page 2

ON Thursday evening last, Mr. John Perry, Vice-President of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, delivered an interesting address on the…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 7

Schute, Bell, and Company, Limited, report :—Transactions in greasy wool have necessarily been restricted within small compass during the past fortnight or so,…

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Sheep Flocks and Land Settlement

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 2

The complete figures used by the Premier at his meeting on Thursday night in relation to sheep flocks and the change that has taken place in recent…

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Topics of the Day. Mongolian Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 6

The position so suddenly acquired by Siberia as a butter-producing country for foreign markets appears to be menaced in respect to some of these markets at least by…

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Mammoth Wool Store. Largest in the Southern Hemisphere. (From the Sydney Australian Star.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 4

THERE is being erected in Pyrmont a wool store that will be the largest in the southern hemisphere, and, with the exception of one mammoth store…

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Chance Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 June 1909 · page 6

Among the Australian States, Victoria is the largest producer of butter, and the Victorians believe that their territory is naturally the most suitable for the…

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Rugging Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 6

A correspondent, who is a keen advocate of rugging cattle, writes to the "Australasian" :—Hugging cattle is well known to many owners of dairy stock, and it would…

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Bowthorne Butter Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 4

Shareholders in the Bowethorne Co—operative Butter Factory, Limited, are reminded by advertisement in this issue that an extraordinary general meeting is to be held in the Company's…

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Advance in Butter. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 2

There was another advance in but ter this morning, which is now quoted at 108/- to 124/-…

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Notes for Farm and Dairy, Seed Potatoes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 6

Those farmers who have been planting potatoes your after year do not require to be told how many hundredweights or tons they require to plant a given area, but there are…

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Cupid in the Class—room. Farming Taught and Matrimony Encouraged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 June 1909 · page 2

In Minnesota there is a great school attended by some eight hundred young men and young women, who study books, work with their hands and make love. Then…

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Dairy Managers' & Secretaries' Conference

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 2

The annual Conference of the above association, which took place this week in Sydney, under the presidency of Mr. P. A. Scarr, must…

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Dairying Industry. Factory Managers' Conference. Speech by the Minister for Agriculture

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 2

The Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers and Secretaries' Association of New South Wales continued its fourth annual conference…

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Milking Machine Patents a Warning to Dairymen

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 June 1909 · page 4

THE "L-K-G" Milking Machine having proved an absolute success after 7 years' use, a crop of weak imitations has come along, and we…

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Rugging Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 14

A correspondent, who is a keen advocate of rugging cattle, writes to the "Australasian":—Rugging cattle is well known to many owners of dairy stock, and it would…

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Manufacture of Butter

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 June 1909 · page 2

Several addresses particularly inter esting to dairy farmers were delivered at the annual conference of the Dairy Man agers and Secretaries Association in…

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