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Farming & the land, 1910

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Lemon Butter, Filling for Tarts

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 2

1½ cups of sugar, whites of three eggs and yolk of one beaten, ½ cup butter, grate the rind of two lemons, then squeeze in the juice and mix all…

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Japanese Wool Trade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 14

Japan according to a report from Mr. J. B. Suttor, the commercial commissioner for New South Wales in that country, imoorted £335,048 worth of wool during…

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Butter for Export. The Question of Grading

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 6

THE Minister for.Agriculture (the Hon. John Perry), who has a sound practical knowledge of the subject, recently made some interesting comments on…

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The Wool Industry. Remarkable Figures

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 8

Some remarkable facts in connection with the wool industry were given by Sir Francis Suttor at the Sheep Show luncheon in Sydney. The show, he said, was the largest exhibit on…

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Worm in Sheep. a Source of Serious Loss to Pastoralists

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 3

It is a fact which no practical sheep owner will gainsay, that many thousands of pounds are lost annually to flock masters in this country, owing to…

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Farm & Dairy. Feeding the Cow

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 8

A good cow will eat about 251b of dry matter per day. This should contain from two to two and a half pounds of protein. Farming without clear…

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Dairy Science School. For the Middle Northern Rivers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 6
Also in Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative

The Department of Agriculture, in pursuance of its policy of instruction in the scientific side of the dairying industry, proposes to conduct iftiother…

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Requirements of the Dairy

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 7
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

Whether it be an "Alfa Laval" Cream Serarator, or an "L.K.G." Milking Machine, a Steam Engine and Boiler or an Oil Fngine; whether it be a ste[?] pump or a set of…

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The Farmer As He Keaully Is

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 4

"It takes a devil to know a devil," was the confession, of Mr Aiken, amid screams of laughter, at the festive board at Red Range (says the "Glen…

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Tragedy in Georgia. a Desperate Farmer. London, Monday afternoon

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 3

A farmer named Bostwick, who was being arrested at Ocilla, Georgia. U.S.A., for a misdemeanour, killed Davis, the chief of police, and Sheffield, the deputy-sheriff. Bostwick…

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Farmyard Manure

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

According to a bulletin issued by the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station leaching is perhaps the most important cause of loss of plant food in the…

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Farm and Field Notes and News

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

[?] meeting of dairyman and butter factory [?] Lismore carried a resolution in [?] to the grading of butter for export. [?] rains of a steady character have…

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Sanitation and Dairying

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

At a recent meeting of the Glasgow rind West of Scotland Agricultural Society, Mr. John Frew, County, Inspector, Bathgate, read a paper on "Sanitation, and Dairying."…

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Dairying Industry. Factory Managers in Conference

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

The fifth annual conference of the Co-operative Dairy Factory Managers' and Secretaries' Association was opened in Sydney recently. There was a fairly large…

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Dairy Herd for Sale

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 July 1910 · page 4

At Clydesdale to-day, at 2 o'clock. Messrs H. York and Son will sell by public auction on account of Mr L. Ward, the whole of the vendor's…

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Molasses for Dairy Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 7

Molasses has been used with more or less success in the fattening of beef cattle and in the nutrition of dairy cows and horses. From 9lb. to 12lb. are often used in the ration, the…

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Stud Sheep Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 4

The stud sheep sales were continue day. Prices were fairly satisfactory [?]tron the Second, which won the [?] Championship at Campbelltown (Ta[?]…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 6

Schute, Bell, and Co., Ltd., report: Although it is difficult to gauge the course of the market accurately in the absence of sales of any great extent recently, there…

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