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Farming & the land, 1910

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 3

Messrs Griffith and Hassel, Patent At torneys, of 103 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents…

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Losses in Dairying. The Separator Question

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 March 1910 · page 2

Where dairymen have failed to make dairying pay, it will be ably, that they put in a faulty Cream Separator. All successful dairymen use…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 March 1910 · page 2

For the first time for months the haulage of wool over the railways shows a decrease but wheat continues to improve. In respect to wool the carriage to the seaboard for the week ended…

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Commercial. the Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 6

Prescott, Limited, report:—On Thursday the price for local Baled was advanced to 100s. This brings Tallies into line with the prices that were obtainable from export buyers. Second grades are…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 6

Hill, Clark, and Co. report:—Full catalogues have been offered this week, and the market remained firm with good competition for the better sorts, though a slight irregularity was noticeable at…

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Successful Dairy Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 4

A recent report from a dairying centre on the North Coast stated that many dairy farmers were of opinion that, owing to neglect of testing, they were afraid that they had been keeping in…

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Farmers' Produce Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 15 March 1910 · page 4

Another large supply of mixed produce amounting to 52 trucklands was submitted at auction today before a fair attendance of buyers. Competition was keen for all commodities, which…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 6

Trebeck, Son and Co., Sydney, report:—in market was unchanged, good classes being in [?] demand at previous rates, while poorer torts [?] irregular…

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My Australian Impressions. an Expedition in the Sheep Country

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 3

It was not farthest west; it was only about half-way across the great width of Queensland beyond which lies the Northern Territory and beyond that Western…

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Farmers and the Labour Party

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 March 1910 · page 5

A correspondent sends us the following extracts, which he states will serve to prove that the farmer has few, if any, friends in the ranks of the Labour party; but if they…

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The Flavour of Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 3

In a recent publication of the United States Department of Agriculture, experiments by Messrs. L. Rogers and Gray upon the alteration of the flavour of butter on…

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Local and General. Butter Exhibits

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 4

The attention of owners and managers of butter factories is directed by advertisement to Class 541 in the Hunter River Agricultural Society's schedule:—"Box of…

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Wild Sheep in New Zealand Hunting Experiences

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 2

It can be readily realised even by a layman that the task of gathering merinos on the high, broken, unfenced country that forms such a large proportion of the pastoral runs…

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London Wool Sales. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 2

The London wool sales were postponed yesterday, owing to a dense fog lying over, the city…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. What Is a Cow Worth?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 3

Professor Wilber J. Fraser, of the University of Illinois, has computed an interesting table of cow values. "How do you judge cattle?" we were once asked by an…

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M. Rostand's Farmyard Poem. "Chantecler."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 6

Before an immense audience, representing the elite of the fashionable and literary, world of Paris, the dress rehearsal of "Chantecler" took place at the Porte…

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Farmers' Produce Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 17 March 1910 · page 4

Competition was keen for all commodities at this morning's produce auction sales. Prices remained practically unaltered. Prime to choice quality chaff sold briskly, while other grades were found…

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Cattle for Sydney Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 4

As on former occasions, the Maitland district will be strongly represented in the Hereford classes at the forthcoming Royal Show in Sydney. The The Paterson herds…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 March 1910 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., Sydney, report under date 14th March:—The end of this week will see the close of the main selling season, and buyers are to be…

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