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Farming & the land, 1909

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The Wool Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 October 1909 · page 5

It is estimated that a great fleet of between 120 and 150 steamers will be seriously affected u[?]less the wool trouble is settled. At a meeting of wool-growers…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Extraordinary Situation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 October 1909 · page 3

The dispute between the Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' Association and the Sydney Wool-buyers' Association assumed an acute stage on Tuesday afternoon,…

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Increase in Butter. Largely Due to "Alfa" Separator

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 October 1909 · page 4

So marked has been the advance of dairying in N.S.W. the last ten years, that the output of butter has increased from less than 30,000,000 lbs…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Fern Roots for Swine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 October 1909 · page 7

The Rev. Nicholas Turner, over a cent[?] ago, urged the use of fern roots as feed for swine. He said, "As surveyor of the highways of this parish i was…

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Essentials in Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 October 1909 · page 7

At a recent meeting of the Wirrabara branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, Mr. P. Lawson, in the course of a papers on dairying, said that no farm is…

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Butter in Four Minutes

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 5

The mistifying performances of a little butter churner exhibited at the Farmers' and Dairymen's Milk Company's works in Harris-street, puzzled a…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 7

Trebeck, Son, and Co. roport:—The auction sale could not be held on Monday owing to a difference between buyers and the Wool Selling Association London sales are going strongly, and the advance a…

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Letter to the Editor. Pastoral and Stock Protection Boards

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 3

SIR,—In your issues of the 2nd and 24th ultimo, appear two letters under the above heading. and as they purport to ventilate a supposed grievance of the stockowners, I…

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Homebush Stock Sales. the Pastoral Finance Association Ltd. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 2

There were 72,098 sheep penned. The supply was above the demand and prices ruled easier. Beat crossbred wethers made from 16s 16d, extra higher, good 13s 6d to…

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Increase in Butter. Largely Due to "Alfa" Separator

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 2

So marked has been the advance of dairying in N.S.W. the last ten years that the output of butter has increased from less than 30,000,000lbs to over…

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The Wool Dispute. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 4

There is no improvement in the wool dispute, and both sides are still doter mined to remain firm. It is estimated that a great fleet of…

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Farm & Dairy. Sweet Potatoes

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 2

The cultivation of the sweet potato might properly be said to begin with the preparation of the soil in which they are to grow. It should be turned with…

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Government Experimental Farms

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 4

The mischievous, but popular fallacy of expecting that a Government experiment farm should be carried on with an idea of immediate profit making, has recently been vigorously attacked…

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Crops Damaged

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 October 1909 · page 4

An unprecedented cold has seriously damaged the corn crop in Mexico. The loss is extimated at £4,000,000…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 October 1909 · page 2

Prescott, Limited, report:—Since values have been reduced for finest quality to 104/ the local [?] shows a marked increase, and of…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 October 1909 · page 2

Hill Clark and Co., report—Owing to no settlement having been arrived at in dispute [?] selling brokers and buyers sales were not held [?] Sydney this week. With better weather [?]…

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[?] London Wool Sales. Closed Firm. London, Oct. 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 October 1909 · page 3

[?] calalogued at the sales just closed [?] of which 60,000 have been cold to [?] 32,000 to the Continent, to the [?] 6000, and there have been held…

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Wool Sales Deadlock. the View in England. London, Oct. 2

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 October 1909 · page 3

[?] "Yorkshire Post" writes in reference [?] dispute in Sydney that Australian [?] do not only aspire to do the [?] of the seiling, but also to regulate…

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Pilliga Sorub Wheat

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 October 1909 · page 1

Samples of wheat grown, on the Gov ernment experimental plot at Mr. R. Roden's farm, Cumbardeen, three miles from Wee Waa, on the Pilliga Serub…

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Wool Dispute Settled

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 October 1909 · page 4

ON Saturday last, we received word from Messrs. Wirchcombe, Carson and Co, the well-known selling brokers, stating that the dispute in…

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