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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

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Rural Workers' Union Meeting of Dairy Farmers

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 4

A meeting of gentlemen engaged in dairying and allied industries was hold at the Oddfellows' Hall yesterday to consider their position in regard to the…

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Farm and Dairy. Vines Poisoned by Arsenic

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 2

Viticulturists in several of the vinegrowing districts in Victoria, who have sustained heavy losses owing to phylloxera, have been seriously alarmed at a…

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

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 11

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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Letter to the Editor. Farmers and the Referendum

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 6

Sir,-In reply to your criticisms of any [?]; you urn the first to ondeavour, to my knowledge to attach anything contemptuots to the term "cookie," and have yet to learn land tux…

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Farm and Field. Notes and News

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 11

At a largely attended meeting in Sydney it was decided to form an Ayrshire Herd Book Society. The official statement of the wheat harvest…

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Victimising a Farmer. Curious Case of Incendiarism

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 April 1911 · page 9

Mr. W. J. Locke, of Locksley, farmed and grazier, whose woolshed was burned last December, causing a loss of between £700 and £800. and which fire was supposed…

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Serious Wharf Fire. Australian Wool Burnt. Paris, April 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 24 April 1911 · page 3

A fire has seriously damaged goods landed at Dunkirk from the steamer Clan Farquhar, from Port Pirie, and another steamer. Reuter's correspondent at Dunkirk states…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 4

There were received at Darling Island. Newcastle, and Morpeth depots last week 26.19 bales of wool, compared with 2663 for the corresponding week of last year. Since the beginning of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 2

Hill, Clarke and Co. report, Sydney, 2lst April, 1911:—Since our last sale there has been a good enquiry, and the bulk of the wools…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 4

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

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Late Cables. Australian Wool Destroyed

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 2

Paris Saturday.—A fire seriously damaged goods landed at Dunkirk from the Clan Farquhar, which sailed from Sydney on February 15th. Reuter's…

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Letters to the Editor. Farmers and the Referenda

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 3

Sir.—Mr. Dawson's letter in your issue of 21st instant is another instance of the impudent stuff that is being resorted to to capture votes for the referenda. Tenant farmers should note…

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Farmers and the Referendum

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 3

Sir,—In bidding Mr. Dawson good-bye for the present, I must say he is a bit rough on the landlords, He is too one-sided altogether I am an Australian, belonging to no party,…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 1

Messrs Griffith and Hassell, Patent Attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, ana 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents…

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The Singleton Argus. Tuesday, April 25th. Farmers and the Referenda

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 25 April 1911 · page 2

The question has been raised as to how the farming vote will be exercised on Wednesday next, and is of interest in view of the,fact that the producers…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 7

Hill, Clark, and Co. report: Since our last sale there has been good enquiry, and the bulk of wools that were passed have been disposed of at satisfactory prices. There now remains very little wool to…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 1

FOR week ending April 22, 1911:—Wool.—The holiday season has naturally interfered with the selling [?] wool by private treaty, but normols…

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Shortage of Labour on Dairy Farms L.K.G Milking Machines to the Rescue

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 26 April 1911 · page 2

We read constantly in the newspapers of the difficulty in obtaining experienced milkers on the dairy farms, and the difficulty will probably become still more acute, but…

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Rating of Farm Lands

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 2

With reference to a letter dated February 20, presented to the Department of Public Works from Mr. W. V. W. Thompson, with regard to the question of differential rating…

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United States Politics. Farmers' Free List Bill. Washington, April 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 27 April 1911 · page 5

In the House of Representatives last night the Democrats introduced the Farmers' Free List Bill. The Republican critics of the measure…

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