Dairying on the Hunter
At the opening of the Maitland Show Mr. J.L. Trefle, the hon. Minister administering the Department of Agriculture called attending to the rapid strides made by the…
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Farming & the land, 1911
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Farm and Field
[?] of six White Leghorns at Burnley, Victoria established a world's record by laying 130 eggs in four weeks. [?] the popularity of the Jersey strain of cattle…
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The champion dairy cow of all the world, belongs of course to America! Her name is Josephine, her birthplace Missouri, her breed "Holstein-Friesian."…
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The wool received at Darling Harbour, Morpeth, and Newcastle during the work ended May 6 amounted to 2512 bales, an increase, compared with the same period last year, of 672 bales. The…
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A meeting of dairy Farmers was here recently, to the Dairy Farmers' Union for this district, and a committee was…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Dutch Dairying Industry. Visit of Britishers. the Hague
One hundred and fifty members of the British Dairy Farmers' Association are visiting the dairy farms, and the butter and choose factories of the Northerlands…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers and Settlers' Association Claims of Rural Workers' Union
Under the auspices of the Maitland branch of the Farmers and Settlors' Association a meeting of farmers, dairyman, orchardists, and other primary producers, was held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Special Cattle Sale
Attention is directed to a special sale of 1700 head of store cattle, to be conducted by Messrs H. Bailey and Son at the shire yards on Friday- next, the 12th…
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Hill, Clark, & Co., Ltd., Sydney, report:— At the sales being held in Brisbane this week the market is reported very firm, with keen competition for greasy wools, which show an…
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Schute, Bell, and Co., Ltd., Sydney, report:—Broyancy was in evidence throughout the Brisbane sales last week, superior greasy [?]lling up to 14d under animated and general competition. Scoured…
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Messrs Griffith and Hassell, Patent Attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, and 9 Queen-street, Melbourne, report that the following applications for patents…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Landholders and Dairy Fanners' Union
It is notified by advertisement in this issue that a meeting of owners, lessees, occupiers of land, and other persons, for the formation of a branch of the above…
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Trebeck, Son, and Co, sydney, report:—Some 30,000 bales were offered at the Brisbane local sales last week. Prices of groasy show an advance of from 5 per cent. Scoured wool, on the other…
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For week ending May 6, 1911:—Wool—Transactions in the local wool market during the past week have been very limited. Auction sales…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Farm and Dairy Notes. Curing Tobacco Leaf
An experienced American tobacco grower writes as follows in an exchange:—As tobacco is cut it is strung on laths after which it is hauled to a scaffold…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmers and Settlers
The adjourned meeting of the Maitland branch of the Farmers and Settle[?]s' Association of New South Wales will be held in the committee-room on tho show ground on Saturday night, when all…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Motors on the Farm
The negative result of the agricultural motor trials held by the Royal Agricultural society of England last year, says the "Agricultural Machinery Chronicle," has been almost a world-wide…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →United States and Canada. President Taft and the Farmers. Washington, May 9
President Taft, in addressing an organisation of American farmers, bluntly told them that he was sorry to hear that the farmers would desert the Republican party if…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers' Free List. Washington, May 9
The House of Representatives has passed the Farmers' Free List Bill without amendment, the voting on the final division being 236 to 109. All the members of the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Agriculture. Wheat
The various types of wheat are influenced by the respective localities in which they are grow. This causes divergent views among farmers as to the merits of…
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