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Farming & the land, 1910

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Churning Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 6

The temperature is one of the many conditions which affect the churning of cream and is the most important factor to be taken into consideration during the churning…

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Wheat Cultivation

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 6

The agricultural experiment station connected with the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, U.S.A. has recently published the results of four years experiments in…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 7

Schute, Bell, and Co., Limited report:— The market re-opened very firmly at to-day's sales with every prospect of continuance at present levels. The scarcity of high-class wools is becoming more…

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Homebush Stock Sales. the Pastoral Finance Association Ltd: Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 3

14,740 sheep penned. The market opened very firm at values fully 6d per head dearer than last day's rates. As sales progressed prices hardened…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Disking Corn Land

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 6

Few men realise the great advantage to be secured in disking land before breaking for corn. Where corn is to follow a weighted disk harrow can be used, not only for a stalk…

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Farmyard Manure

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 6

Farmyard dung has always been highly esteemed, and not without reason, for it in not only the most complete of all manures, containing all that is necessary for plant…

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What Dairymen Should Know

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 6

The cost of producing a gallon of milk. The cost of producing a pound of butter fat. The cost of feeding a cow one. year…

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Miller's Forest Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 4

The weather continues threatening and showery (says our Miller's Forest correspondent), and a spell of fine weather would be very acceptable now to enable the…

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Our Singleton Letter. Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 February 1910 · page 8

The tenth annual meeting of the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., was held yesterday, with Mr. David Faulkner in the chair…

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English Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 3

The butter market has again advanced. Australian choicest butter is quoted at 120s a and New Zealand 122s to 12ds, an advance of 4s since Thursday…

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Cattle Camp at Moree

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 4

MORRE, Wednesday.— A moll of 5000 cattle unrestricted by fences, have gathered on a red soil rise near Talmoi, 33 miles from Moree. They are to be drafted by various owners. The…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 3

At the wool sales prices of the [?] mentioned were:— Mindaroo, highest 10d, [?] 9d; Manuterra, 10½d, 9[?]d; Gascoyne, [?] 10¼d; Gunder, 12½d, 11[?]d; Greenhills,…

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Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Coy., Ltd. Annual General Meeting

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 February 1910 · page 4

The tenth annual general meeting of the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd., was held at the Oddfellows' Hall, Singleton, on Tuesday afternoon…

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Wool Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 5

Important meeting of woolbuyers un[?]ly rejected the suggestion of the col[?]old importers' committee to abol[?]draft allowance of 1lb. per cwt. The…

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Scone Co-operative Dairy Company. First Annual Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 February 1910 · page 2

THE first annual general meeting of the shareholders of the above company was held at the School of Arts (upper room) on Monday…

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Churning Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 7

temperature is one of the many con[?] which affect the churning of cream. [?] is the most important factor to be ta[?] into consideration during the cheeping…

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Wheat Cultivation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 7

The agricultural experiment station connected with the University of Nebraska, at Lincoln, U.S.A., has recently published the results of four years' experiments in…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 8

Schute, Bell and Co,m Limited, report:—the market re-opened very firmly at to-day's sales with every prospect of continuance at present levels. The scarcity of high class wools is becoming more…

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Hand-weighing Method. for Sheep and Pigs

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 4

It is often desirable to weigh pigs or lambs to see whether or not they are making profitable gains. For the farmer who has no platform scale, an…

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Protection and the Australian Wool Trade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 16

The above is a subject which I tackle specially at the request of the editor, otherwise I doubt if I should have handled such a question, bristling, as it does, with…

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