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Farming & the land, 1910

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Price of Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 3

Metropolitan millers have reduced their buying limit for wheat to 2s 8d per bushel on the farm or 3s in Sydney…

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Wheat Declining Zulu Chieftain Dinizulu

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 3

Wheat is drooping Australian cargoes are quoted at about 31s a quarter of 180lb., l. o. b. Reuter's correspondent at Pretoria reports that the Zulu chief Dinizulu has been transferred to Pretoria, and it is understood that he will soon be released and placed on a farm…

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Queensland Farmers and the Agricultural College

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 2

Last week a party of farmers drove to the Gatton Agricultural College and had a good look round. They were particularly interested in the dairying department and the silos, drought having taught…

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Farmers' Produce Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 June 1910 · page 3

Notwithstanding a small attendance of buyers at this morning's produce sales, competition was keen, and increased values were realised for all commodities, with the exception of…

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The Slump In Wheat. Huge Losses on N.S.W. WHEAT

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 June 1910 · page 2

THERE has been a great slump in wheat the last few days. Calculating the New South Wales wheat stacked at country railway stations at…

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Raymond Terrace Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 4

Considerable interest was taken in the half-yearly meeting of the Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Company, which was held on Tuesday. For five Beats on the board there were…

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The Dairy. the Quality of Butter. Good and Bad Points

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 3

There are many reasons for the di[?]erence in quality of farm made butter. Flavor is the chief point in the product. It should be sweet arid nutty…

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The Butter Ind[?] Victori[?] Try in

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 14

The annual meeting of [?] factory managers in Victoria has given opportunity for estimating the progress of the [?] industry in the Southern State. The [?] trade shows a…

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Wheat-growing in Arid Districts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 6

THE extension of the wheat belt of the State into districts having only a light or irregular rainfall has created the necessity for a system of farming which…

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Our Butter Export Trade. Proposed "Compulsary" Grading and Stamping. Manager Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society Gives Opinion. (To the Editor)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 7

Sir Robert Best, Minister for Customs in the late Federal Government, instruct ed Mr N. Lockyer, Assistant Comptroller of Custom to inquire into and report…

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Cattle Disease in Argentine. Price of Meat Affected. Vancouver

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 3

Reports have been received of an out break of foot and mouth disease in cattle in parts of the Argentine, South America. The price of meat is affected, inasmuch…

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Farm and Field News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 14

The butter factory employees on the northern rivers are forming' a union. The Minister of Customs has had his attention drawn to the cablegram in which…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 June 1910 · page 4

Messrs, Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 103 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, reports that the following applications for pat…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 June 1910 · page 2

The quantity of wool, received at Darling Harbour, Morpeth, and Newcastle during the week just enedd was 2203 bales, which compared, with the quantity which cameo to hand at those places…

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Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

The half-yearly meeting of the Raymond Terrace Co-operative D. and P. Company was held on Tuesday last. The report for the six months…

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Slump in Wheat. Australia Loses a Million

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 7

Reference has already been made to the fact that within a few weeks the market value of the milling wheat stacked at the country railway stations of New South Wales had declined no less than…

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The Farm and Dairy. Dry Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

Professor Severance, of the Washington Agricultural College, says that "with IOin of rainfall per annum a saving of one-half the precipitation for 12 months would…

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How to Improve the Dairy Herd

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 7 June 1910 · page 2

Professor J. W. Sanborne, addressing the Maine Asociation of Dairymen, said, as reported in the "Country Gentleman":—"In the art of breeding we are without fixed laws; like…

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Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1910 · page 5

The manager of the Cessnock butte factory, Mr. Cave, says that the past season has been a record, one both as regards supplies and quality of cream, and the company had made a large…

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A Cattle King. His Properties and Taxes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 8 June 1910 · page 8

In the course of an interview, Mr. Sidney Kidman said:—"The people of Australia don't know how well off they are. They have no idea of the conditions under which people in other parts of the…

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