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Farming & the land, 1910

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 8

John Bridge, & Co., report (by wire to-day) : —The market was extremely firm for good wools. We offered 5500 bales yesterday, and topped the market for the…

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Homebush Sales. [?]Es & Devlin's Report Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 8

[?]ush sales yesterday 51,869 [?]ned, comprising good [?]erino wethers, also a num[?]. There was a large…

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The Farm and Dairy. the Cow's Udder

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 3

The udder of the dairy cow is a most important part. In form it should the moderately thick, filling up by graceful curve…

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Dairying with Pure Stock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 3

Mr. E. J. Turner, Dairy Supervisor in the official journal of the Victorian Department of Agriculture and Stock, writes:— Of the farms in the Fern Tree Gully Shire…

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Motive Power on the Farm

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 November 1910 · page 5

THE internal combustion, o[?] oil engine as it is generally termed, is most favourably regarded by the progressive farmer as it makes him practically…

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Among the Wheat Farmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 4

Our visitors from Scotland who have been much in evidence during the past few weeks in their mission of enquiry and inspection for the purpose of ascertaining the possibilities of Australia…

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Training Sheep Dags

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 16

Sheep-dog trials are nowadays great features of our agriculture shows (writes the London correspondent of the New York "Country Gentlemen"). The trials attract as much attention…

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Big Sale of Store Cattle

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 4

Messrs Edward Higger's Parkinson, and Co., advertise in this issue a big sale or store cattle on Tuesday next, 15th instant, when they will sell at the Muswellbrook…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 8

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. reports:—At our wool sales to-day we found the markets for better class wools firm at rates but inferior and faulty wore weaker compared with our…

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Confessions of a Butter Faker. How to Prevent Fraud

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 2

From time to time a number of people have been sent Home to find out what really does happen to our butter before it gets into the hands of the consumer…

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A Victorian Dairy Farm. a Study in Closer Settlement

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 7

Mr. J. M. B. Connor, Agricultural Superintendent, in the Victorian "Journal of Agriculture," writes:— That dairy runners in Victoria can engage in…

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Progress in the Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 13
Also in Singleton Argus

This is unquestionably an age of progress in all departments of Industry, and especially is this true of our great Dairying Industry, which during the last twenty years has made such…

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Farmers' Bulletins

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 4

The Department of Agriculture issues a list of pamphlets giving expert information on many different departments of rural industries available for free distribution to those likely to put…

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Rural Workers' Union. Rates for N.S.W. Issued. Farmers' Association Reply

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 6

Mr D. M'Namara, general secretary of the Rural Workers' Union, visited Wagga last week, and addressed a large meeting. He issued the following special…

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Farming Lands at Orange

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1910 · page 1

Unoccupied fanning had in the Orange district, at any rate within easy distance of the town itself, is becoming extremely scarce, and it is exceptional to find…

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Australian Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 November 1910 · page 5

"The Association of German Cotton Spinners and Combers, at a meeting at Eisenach, Saxe-Weomar, unanimously resolved to support the proposed division of the Australian wool sales…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 November 1910 · page 4

Hill, Clark and Co., Limited, report regarding wool On Thursday we submitted a catalogue of 2,953 bales with which we had a very satisfactory clearance. The wools were of good average…

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The Farm and Dairy. an Essential in Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 November 1910 · page 6

The first essential in the economical production of food for the cow is a fertile soil. The man who farms successfully and skil-fully in dairy farming will always have…

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Dry Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 November 1910 · page 6

C. W. Handricks in the "American Agriculturist" writes:—One might use the following terms in classifying the different systems of dry farming: Crop annually a system where there is a…

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