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Farming & the land, 1910

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 November 1910 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At our sales yesterday we found a market for a better class wool. Firm, the best point of the week…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Advantages of Cow Testing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 November 1910 · page 3

The testing of each cow as to the quality and quantity of milk is the basis of all successful dairying, as in too many cases the inferior cows in a herd eat up profit…

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Feeding the Dairy Calf

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 24 November 1910 · page 3

A practical dairyman gives in an exchange the following as his method of feeding the dairy calf:— "I feed a little calf some food just as…

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The Butter Factory

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 2

THE nett payments to suppliers at [?] local Butter Factory for the past fortnig[?] amounted to [?]1210 4s 3d. The prese[?] output is at the rate of about seven to[?]…

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Developments in Butter Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 4

New South Wales butter is gaining a world-wide reputation. In addition to the large standing orders from the United Kingdom, cabled messages have been…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 5

At the wool sales Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Jacomb, Son and Co., and H. Schwartz and Co. offered 8248 bales, comprising a capital selection of merinos. Only 740 bales of crossbred wools…

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The Wool Market London Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 8

Dalgety & Company Ltd., report having received the following cable from their London house :—" The sixth and closing series of the home wool sales for this…

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The Farm and Dairy. Breed and Feed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 7

If a dairyman obtains a line bull from a good milking strain of a distinctively dairy breed, he has a right to expect that heifer calves which the cows will…

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The Potato Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 4

Despite the encouraging nature of early prospects, the potato crop in the district is not expected to yield so well as was confidently anticipated considering the amount…

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Progress in the Dairy

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 November 1910 · page 2

We supply Curd Mills to be worked both by hand and power. Improved Cheese Presses fitted with buffer springs. We also supply very…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Pastoral Finance Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 2

Our catalogue was composed of clips of good average wools in the grease, with a sprinkling of better class lines, and a number of lots more or less…

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COMMERCIAL. Wool Market. the Pastoral Finance Association Ltd. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 1

That on Monday, 21st inst., they submitted a catalogue of 5002 bales, but nothing of a specially attractive class. They found the market very…

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Standard of Butter Production

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 6

What is your standard of butter production? This question was asked a farmer recently who has the reputation of being quite a dairyman, and his reply was:—"I…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 5

At the wool sales this afternoon prices were irregular. Crossbreds were unchanged. Shafty and free wools were firm, but faulties weaker. There were large withdrawals…

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Sydney Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 5

At our wool sale on Wednesday, the best features of the week were represented. The offerings are getting more attractive, and the best wools are receiving some attention…

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Dairy Farm for Sale

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 4

Messrs H. York and Son will offer for sale at the Co-operative Union on Tuesday next, 29th instant, Messrs H. and J. Lawrence's well-known dairy farm,…

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Warning to Would-be Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 4

Professor Watt, reading a paper on agriculture before the Teachers' Guild of New South Wales, in Sydney on Friday night offered some advice to young men who…

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Farm and Field. Notes and News

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 6

The North Coast Agricultural Inspector delivered a lecture on the conservation of fodder, in which he strongly urged the dairy farmers to provide ensilage (writes…

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Feeding the Dairy Cale

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 November 1910 · page 6

A practical dairyman gives in an exchange the following as his method of feeding the dairy calf:— "I feed a little calf some food just as…

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The Grane Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 November 1910 · page 2

Vignerons are experiencing a good deal of trouble in combating the spread of oidium amongst the young crop, and the disease is likely to cause severe loss where it is allowed to go unchecked…

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