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Farming & the land, 1911

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Farmers Up in Arms. a Strenuous [?]Iglit

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 19 May 1911 · page 4

The annual report of the executive of the Farmers, and Settlers' Association, to be presented at the approaching conference, trenchantly criticises the administration of…

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Pastoral. the Lamb Trade

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 2

As a component in mixed farming, the raising of lambs under an intelligent conception of the requirements of the trade, and the principles of breeding the…

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Agriculture. Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 14

The various types of wheat are influenced by the respective localities in which they are grown. This causes divergent views among farmers as to the merits of…

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Agriculture. Wheat Sowing

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 2

Expecting early rains, farmers have been sowing, large areas of wheat. The danger of this practice lies in there being enough moisture in the soil to…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 5

At the wool sales the prices indicated were received for the undermentioned clips:—Kilanoola, highest 15d, average 13 7-8d; Mungaral, 13½d, 12 5-8d; Tocal, 12½d, 11 5-8d;…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Tre[?]e), and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Fodder Crops on the South Coast. R. N. MAKIN, Acting Inspector of Agriculture. [Reprinted from the April Agricultural Gazette.]

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 3

WEATHER conditions were much against a satisfactory germination of seed sown for winter experiments in 1910. During April, May, and the greater part of…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 2

The farmer's of Muswellbrook and district recently had the opportunity of hearing Mr R. Patten, President of the Farmers' and Settlers' Association,…

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The Dairy. Value of Skim Milk

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 5

Amongst pig-breeders a very considerable diversity of opinion exists as to the best methods to adopt in feeding, and any information bearing on the…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. Farmers' Associations

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 3

The Fanners and Settlors' Association recently revived here for the purpose of promoting and protecting the interests of its members (and particularly to protest…

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Dairying

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 14

Anyone studying the returns from the dairy herds and noting the number of cattle employed in dairying in the State must realise that there is an onerous loss continually going…

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Farmers Up in Arms. a Strenuous Fight

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 May 1911 · page 5

The annual report of the executive or the Farmers and Settlers Association to be presented at the approaching conference, tren[?]ntly criticises the…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 4

Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., Sydney, report:—There is no alteration in tho market since our last report, prices keeping firm. Since then we have quitted a line of skin wool (92 bales) at, the high figure of…

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Local and General News. Cattle at the Saleyards

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 4

There seems to be need for some better arrangement in regard to the treatment of cattle at the Municipal saleyards at Campbell's Hill. At different times cattle have…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Branch at Paterson. (From our Correspondent)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 3

A number of persons representing the grazing, dairying farming, and other rural industries of the district, met on Wednesday, 17th instant, at Judge's Commercial…

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Child Labour in Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 4

The provision in the clauses of the Rural Workers' Union that child labour should be prohibited on dairy farms during the years in which attendance at school is compulsory,…

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Immigrant and Farmer

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 4

At the small debts court, Singleton, last Thursday, John Mapp, a young Englishman, sued Wm. M'Taggart, to recover the sum of £2 10s, alleged to…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 May 1911 · page 1

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

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 May 1911 · page 4

At the wool sales the prices indicated were realised for the undermentioned clips:—Redcliffe, highest 10½d, average 9[?]d; Stonst[?]ad, 10d, 9[?]d; Hopetinbar, 11½d,…

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