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Farming & the land, 1910

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Scone Co-operative Dairy Company. Half-yearly Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 2

THE first half-yearly meeting of the above was held at the School of Arts on Monday afternoon last. Mr. E. G. Eagar (Chairman of…

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The Dairy. Ayrshire Cows. an English Opinion

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 4

In the whole range of British live stock (writes the English "Field") there is perhaps no more useful or interesting animal than the Ayrshire cow…

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Dairy Cow Tests. Work in New Zealand

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 September 1910 · page 4

The New Zealand Department of Agriculture (writes the "Otago Witness") is doing excellent work in connection with cow-testing at Dalefield. There…

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Drenching Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1910 · page 14

Dr. Roberts, veterinary surgeon at the Wisconsin Experiment Station, U.S.A., sounds this note of warning. Perhaps the best way of demonstrating the…

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Cream Testing at Butter Factories

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 September 1910 · page 7

The Minister of Agriculture intimates that complaints have reached the Department that in some factories in the States suppliers are not paid full value…

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Managing the Dairy Hero

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1910 · page 14

Whether the cows he grades or pure grades, it is of the highest importance in building up a dairy herd to secure a pure bred sire of outstanding dairy merit…

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Breeding for the Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1910 · page 14

If the dairy farmer wishes to obtain the greatest profit in his dairy, he must grade up his herd by one of his pure-bred bulls one of the great dairy breeds—…

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Farm and Field News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 September 1910 · page 14

The following applications for land have been lodged with the Crown Lands Agent at East Maitland :—W. J. Knight, c.p., 40 acres, parish of Hay; Richard Parker, h.s , 21 acres, block 276, parish of…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 4

THE Australian Mortgage. Land and Finance Co., Ltd., John Bridge and Co., Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., Harrison, Jones and…

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Commercial Intelligence. Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 4

Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., report:—Another effort was made by the selling brokers to hold auction sales of wool here next week, but as buyers were not prepared to operate nothing can be done until…

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Encouraging Wheat Growing. Proposal From the Royal Society

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 7

A movement has been vigorously initiated by the Royal Agricultural Society which has for its object the encouragement of wheat growing throughout the State, and the…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 September 1910 · page 1

Messrs Griflith and Hassel, Patent At torneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 4

Trebeck, Son Co. report:—Private enquiry good at late auction values. The weekly sales commence on the 26th of the month…

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Topics Of. the Day. American Demand for Jersey Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 September 1910 · page 2

The growing popularity of the Jersey breed of cattle in the United States is one of the notewonthy features in the stock-breeding industry in that country. The…

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Sheep

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 2

Fine Combing.—Ram, G-tooth or over, Thomas Mullins, 1; Alfred Collins. 2. Ram. not exceeding 4-tooth, Thomas Mur lins, 1; Arnold Collins, 2. Ewe. 6-tooth…

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Dairy Cattle Group Prizes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 6

Three dairy cows (dry), J. H. Nicholls 1, R. S. Reynolds 2; three cows in milk, Alex. Robinson 1. McGregor Bros. 2; three heifers 4-tooth. Percy Faulkner; three heifers 2-tooth, C. Harris…

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Cattle. Durhams or Shorthorns

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 2

Bull, three years and over, Harold H. Waddell's Connaught, 1; M. Cagney's, Jr., Wollombi, 2. Bull, 4-tooth, A. C. Pieton's Lord Purity. Bull, 2-tooth, M. Cagney, Jr…

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Fat Stock. Fat Cattle

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 2

Durham On, A. A. Dangar 1; R. 1L. Dangar, 2 Hereford On;-Cannden Park Estate, Ltd., 1 and 2. Devon On, Cam den Park Estate, Ltd. On, any breed,…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Large or Small Cow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 2

Some very interesting statistics on this subject have been compiled from data giving the average and total figures for 75 caws (says the "American…

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Dry Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 September 1910 · page 2

At a meeting the other day of the Arden Vale and Wy[?] branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, Mr. Griffin gave some interesting facts concerning the dry farming experiments…

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