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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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Co-operative Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 3

Lord Rayleigh's co-operntivo farming scheme on his Essex estate has yielded the labourers four per cent. on their investment…

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Warwick Farm Weights

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 3

The following weights have been declared by Mr. Daly for the "Warwick Farm races, to be held on Saturdaynext:—…

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The Farmers, and Settlers

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 February 1909 · page 2

Advantage was taken of the presence of a number of farmers and settlers at the meeting of the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., on…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 2

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:— Our wool sale on Wednesday found the market excited with specially strong demand for…

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The "Wet Wool" Troubles

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 3

IN the course of his annual general report to the dolgates at the conference of the Australian Workers' Union, presented on Friday the hon. secratory,…

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Dairy Farming

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 4

AN American retired school teacher, who started dairy farming, and managed in a few years to increase his income from a 96-acre farm from…

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Singleton Letter. Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 3

The ninth annual meeting of shareholders in the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., was held in the Elite Hall, John-street, on Tuesday afternoon. Mr. D. Faulkner (chairman…

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Milking Machine Success. What a Leading Dairymap says

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 February 1909 · page 7

One of the best known dairymen in the state. Mr. W. H. Gray of Eltham, (for several years chairman of the Byron Bay butter…

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Wool and Wheat Traffic

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 4

The Railway Department carried to the seaboard last week 3185 bales of wool, or 1086 bales more than were carried during the corresponding week of last year. Thus far this season…

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Making Prize Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 12

One of the richest scores in butter at the recent New York State fair was made by Thomas F. Rutherford, proprietor of Champaign Creamery, of St. Lawrence County…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 4

Prescott, Limited, Sydney, report.—Butter: At the present time the local market stands at 100/ for choicest quality, but there is a much easier tendency owing to…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 5

At the wool sales yesterday prices realised were:—Doorawarah 9d; Towera, 9¾d; Lanillo, 9[?]d; Piangobla, 10[?]d, Takurongo, 10½d; Isis Downs 11½d…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 6

Dalgety and Company, Limited are in re[?] the following cable message from their [?] office under date of 30th ultimo:—"The [?] wool sales continue active. Competition is [?]…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 8

Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—The market opened firmly on Monday, with vigorous competition current for all descriptions of greasy wool. Clearances of scoured were…

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Why Butter Does Not Come

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 12

One reason why sonic butter doesn't come is because the churn is too full of cream (says a writer in the "Prairie Farmer"). A barrel churn, which is the best kind to use…

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An Important Customer. Wool for Japan

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 15

The latest report received by the Minister of Agriculture from Mr. J. B. Suttor, Trade Commissioner for New South Wales in the East, contains particulars of the…

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Farm & Dairy. Measuring Lucking Hay

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 7

The Kansas Experiment Station gives the following rules for measuring In[?] hay:-With Incerne hay which has been stacked for 30 days, it is usual to…

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Dry Farming Congress. SENATOR McCOLL'S VIEWS

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 9

Senator J. H. McColl, a Victorian politician of many years standing, was in Brisbane yesterday, en route for Vancouver and the United States (says the Brisbane…

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Essentials in Dairying

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 12

In the course of a a paper on dairying, read at a meeting of the Mount Remarkable branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, Mr. J. O'Connell said that dairying…

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Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1909 · page 12

Another discovery of cattle tick has been made at Murwillumbah, making the second this summer. The following application for land has been…

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