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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

1,550 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 24 of 78

Farmers' Associations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 4

The rise of the Rural Workers' Union has given a needed stimulus to the organization of branches of the Farmers and Settlers' Association in order to combat the claims of the…

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Ploughing Under Green Crops

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 April 1911 · page 2

Nearly all of our land is suffering today for a lack of humus in the soil. In 50 years of observation here in Wisconsin we have seen soils turn in colour…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. the Skim-milk Calf

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 6

A great deal of money is lost every year in many, districts by feeding calves on whole milk, or by letting them suck their dams. This is the keynote of a capital report last…

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The Maitland Exhibition. Grand Total of 4300 Entries. Fine Show of Horses and Cattle Promised

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 5

Compared with the big total of last year, the jubilee show of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association, the entries received for the annual exhibition, to be held…

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Farm House Tragedy. Eloper Done to Death. Rome

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 5

A youth arrested for eloping with a farmer's daughter near Naples was released on bail The farmer and his sons seized the youth, beat him into a state of…

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The Tenant Farmer, and the Referendum. To the Editor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 18 April 1911 · page 2

Sir,—There is one aspect of the referendum, which I would like to place before your readers, more especially tenant farmers, and which…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union. Penalties Arranged

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 April 1911 · page 5

The conference of the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union was held in Sydney on Tuesday night. The balance-sheet presented showed a credit balance of £115 6s 4d…

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Farm and Dairy Notes, Dairy, Notes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 6

Thousands of, men have lived among cows all their lives, mid what do they know about them, about breeding them, developing them, keeping thorn vigorous, and heal…

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Champion Dairy Cow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 6

The champion dairy cow of all the belongs of course to America Her name is-Josephine, her birthplace Missouri, her breed "Holstein-Fresian-" Josephine's…

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Local and General News. Lime for the Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 4

The Mannine Lime Company announces that a demonstration will be given on the farm of Mr. George Biship, at Woodville, on Saturday afternoon next at two o'clock…

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Farmers and 'The [?]Eferendum

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 4

A correspondent in another [?] of this issue baits a hook for the [?] famers in connection with the forthcoming [?] but those who are often contempte[?]…

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Letters to the Editor. the Tenant Farmer and the Referendum

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 6

Sir,-There is one aspect of the referendum which I would like to place before your readers, more especially the tenant farmers, and which, so far, I have not seen touched upon,…

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Dairyman Drowned

Singleton Argus · Thursday 20 April 1911 · page 2

As the result of a terrific storm in the Dripstone and Nourea (Wellington distirct), the Bell River overflowed its banks. A milk vendor, Hansen,…

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The Big Wheat Yields Reported are grown by those Progressive Farmers who use Shirley's Superphosphate the Grain Fertiliser Shirley's Manures

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 1

The advance in agricultural methods in New South Wales during the past ten years has been so largely contributed to by the efforts of those who have at all…

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Phenomenal Crops of Lucerne seed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 4

Mr. Willie Albertson, of "Caseearina," Dungowan Creek, Tamworth district, in writing to a friend here with reference to the phenomonal crop of iucerne seed at Singleton-5½…

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Branxton Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 4

A meeting of farmers and dairymen will be held in the School of Arts at Branxton, on Tuesday morning next at 10 o'clock for the consideration of importan business…

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Tariff for Farmers. Washington, April 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 April 1911 · page 5

The Ways and Means Committee or the House of Representatives has reported on the Farmers' Free List Bill. "The Committee recommends far-reaching is dnotions in the…

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Dry Farming. Value of Rotation. Rape for Sheep. the Seed Problem

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 5

Several practical papers were read at the Dry Farming Conference recently held in Adelaide. The gathering should have the effect of popularising that…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union. Penalties Arranged

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 3

The conference of the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union was held in Sydney on Tuesday night. The balance-sheet presented showed a credit balance of £115 6s 4d…

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Our Singleton Letter. Meeting of Dairy Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 4

A mooting of perspons engaged in dairying and allied industries was held yesterday, to consider their position in regard to the elaimssetout by the…

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