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Farming & the land, 1910

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The Wool Industry. Remarkable Figures

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 5

SOME remarkable facts in connection with the wool industry were given by Sir Francis Suttor at the Sheep Show luncheon in Sydney. The…

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Sheep Sales. Some Big Prices. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 2

The sheep sales opened to-day. Syl vander, winner of the grand champion prize at the Show, was sold for 450 guineas to a South African buyer…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Work of the Creamery

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

[?] a meeting of Vermont dairy[?] reported in the "Country Gentle[?] N. P. Gill said the creamery is [?] the place to make the dairy…

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The Singleton Argus Tuesday, July 5th. the Wool Industry

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 2

Perhaps it is in only a few things that Australia, without challenge, can claim to beat the world. But chiefest of these few things is sheep. Nowhere else in…

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Three Important Factors in Dairying

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

[?] are many factors (said the mana[?] an American dairy farm the other[?] the production of butter, all more [?] important, but the three factors…

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Farmers' Produce Sales. Sydney

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

A small supply of various produce, [?]ing to 25 consignments was submitted [?]tion this morning, and only two of these passed in for private treaty. Prices [?]…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 5 July 1910 · page 3

Messrs Griffith and Hassel, Patent At torneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the foliowing applicutions for patents…

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The Wool Arrivals

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

Arrivals of wool number 285,684 bales. Of these 155,500 have been forwarded direct to the manufactures, and with those, left over from last series there are 155,010 available for…

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Notes and Comments. the Sheep Show

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 6 July 1910 · page 3

Sydney wears a bucolic look. The men from "out back" are strong to evidence. High and low, rich and poor, yet nearly all marked by that…

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American Wheat Advance

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 July 1910 · page 3

Reuter's correspondent at Chicago reports that wheat has advanced 4 cents a bushel. It is alleged that the North Dakota crop is beyond help. Ploughing the wheatfields is proceeding in…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 July 1910 · page 2

A peculiar case of alleged cattle stealing was heard before Mr. C. H. Gale, P.M., at the police court yesterday, and occupied the whole of the day, concluding in lamplight,…

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Farmers' Produce Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 July 1910 · page 2

A heavy supply of varied produce, amounting to 68 consignments, was submitted at auction this morning, before a moderate attendance of buyers. Competition for forage and potatoes was…

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Importation of Dairy Cattle Into N.s.w

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 6

EARLY in the year 'the Minister for Agriculture made an offer to the dairy farmers of this State to assist them by undertaking to bring out, with…

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The Stud Sheep Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 2

GREATER interest than usual centres in the stud sheep sales which, of course, follow the Show. It was known that buyers from South Africa were in the…

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Antwerp 'Wool' Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 5

The Antwerp wool sales opened on Wednesday. There was a moderate attendance. Prices receded 3 per cent., or from 5 to 10 centimes, compared with the last series. Large…

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Canadian Wheat Crops. Reports Diverse But Discouraging London, Thursday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 5

There is much diversity in the reports concerning the Canadian wheat crops. The "Times" states that rains have greatly improved prospects in the West, but the…

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Pathetic Story. Free Church Leader's Death. "I Cannot Sheep."

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 5

A terribly pathetic story of the last days of the Rev. Th[?]s Law, whose body was found in the sea off Brighton on Sunday, was told at the inquest…

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Requirements of the Dairy

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 8 July 1910 · page 7

Whether it be an "Alfa-Laval" [?] Separator, or an "L-K-G" Milking Machine, a Steam Engine and Boiler or an Oil Engine; whether it…

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Molasses for Dairy Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 12

Molasses has been used, with more or less success in the fattening of beef cattle and in the nutrition of dairy cows and horses. Form 91b. to 121b. are often used in the ration the…

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Importation of Dairy Cattle Into N.s.w

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 July 1910 · page 6

EARLY in the year the Minister for Agriculture made an offer to the dairy farmers of this State to assist them by undertaking to bring out, with…

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