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Farming & the land, 1910

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Irish Butter. Committee's Report London, March 26

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1910 · page 3

[?]l the butter committee's report states in the stoppage of production in winter in Inland is most harmful to the industry. The committee advises the manufacture of butter…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Evolution of Black Faces

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1910 · page 2

A writer in the "West Yorkshire Pioneer" on "The Evolution of Blackface Sheep" deals at some length with the improvements wrought on the breed by…

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Machinery on Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1910 · page 2

One of the most noticeable factors of the Royal Show is the great amount and variety of machinery for use on farms, to save labour. An farmer of half a century ago would be…

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Recent Robbery of Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 29 March 1910 · page 5

The police have arrested a man in connection with the recent robbery of wool valued at £350, from wool stores at Pyrmont…

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Weather and Crops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 March 1910 · page 3

Some heavy showers of rain fell at Cessnock on Monday. The grass paddocks in the district are looking splendid, considering the time of the year…

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The Wheat Season

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 31 March 1910 · page 2

On Tuesday there were at Darling Harbour, Sydney, 642 trucks, containing 64,290 bags of wheat. The number of trucks under load with wheat on Wednesday was 141, containing 14,258…

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Dungog Butter

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 2

The local butter factory has scored another creditable win at the Sydney Show, by securing second place in the special prize,…

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The Farm and Garden. Grubby Tomatoes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 7

The South Australian (Horticultural In-structor writes us following the official journal:—"Grubby tomatoes have been very no Uiceable this season in the markets and…

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Farmers and Settlers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 2

The inaugural annual celebration in connection with the Farmers and Settlers (Underbank branch), took place at Melbury (in the paddock…

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Raffle fop Rich Farms. One Lucky Speculator Gets £6000 Estate for £200

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 5

The Chicago corespondent of the "Daily Chronicle" says remarkable scenes have been witnessed at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, where the largest distribution of land ever…

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Farmers and the Labor Party. to the Editor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 8

Sir,—Will you be good enough to publish the following extracts, which will serve to prove that the farmer has few, if any, friends in the ranks of the…

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Losses in Dairying. the Separator Question

The Scone Advocate · Friday 1 April 1910 · page 2

WHERE dairymen have failed to make dairying pay it will be found invariably, that they put in a faulty cream separator. All successful dairymen use the…

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Homebush Stock Sales. the Pastoral Finance Association Ltd. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 7

64,000 sheep and lambs forward, the quality generally being good useful trade mutton. Values were very firm for primes at the best of last day's rates,…

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My Australian Impressions an Expedition in the Sheep Country

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 9

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 Australia…

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Farm & Dairy. Cooling of Cream

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 2

That the numerous regulations im posed upon the dairy industry have not been able to improve matters ought by now to be obvious to every body…

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Successful Sale of Dairy Herd

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 4

At Maitland Vale yesterday Mr. O. K. Young conducted a very successful sale of Mr. A. E. Whittet's dairy herd, consequent on the owner having decided to leave the district…

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Girl Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 7

s[?]ced annual dinner of women farmers [?]deners organised by the Women's Agricultural sad Horticultural International Union [?]d last mouth in London. The union,…

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Farmers' Produce Sales. Sydney, Saturday A [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 4

A large supply of mixed produce, amounting to 51 truckloads, was submitted at auction to-day before a meagre attendance of buyers. Competition was extremely dull, nearly half the…

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Farm and Field

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 11

The area under wheat in the Junee district for the coming season is expected to show a great increase…

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Machinery on Farms

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1910 · page 11

One of the most noticeable factors of the Royal Show is the great amount and variety of machinery for use on farms, to save labour. An English farmer of half a century age would be…

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