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Farming & the land, 1911

1,550 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 45 of 78

The Dairy. About Tests. Some Common Phrases. Meaning of Over-run

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 5

Important facts concerning the testing of milk and manufacture of commercial butter are not so generally understood as they should be. The…

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A Farmer on Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 3

At a recent farmers meeting at Caltowie, South Australia, the following paper was read by Mr. F Lehmann:—"The most serious problem that the farming community has to face is…

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The Country Party. Farmers Fighting Platform

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 4

The Farmers and Settlers Conference has adopted a new fighting platform, which will be known as the platform of the Country Party…

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Farmers and Settlers, Their Annual Conference

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 15

The annual conference of the Now South Wales Partners and Settlers' Association was opened in Sydney on Monday. Over 250 delegates were present, being the largest attendance on record…

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Abscesses in Farm Animals

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 10

An abscess is the result of entrance of micro-organisms into the body. They may have entered through wounds, or into the fair follicles; or abscesses may result from…

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The Farmers' Parliament

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

The increased activity among farmers in the matter of organising for the protection of their own interests, and for promotion of the great and important industries which they…

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Farmers' Pork at Era[?] Shire Council Discuss

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

At yesterday's meeting of the Shire Council (says our Mines [?]a letter was read from the Ba[?] slaughtering inspector, Constable…

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Mr Holman and the Farmers

Singleton Argus · Saturday 15 July 1911 · page 4

The Acting-Premier (Mr Holman), addressing the Farmers and Settlers' conference in Sydney on Wednesday night, said that £2,000,000 would be spent at…

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Local and General News. Dairy Cattle for Casino

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1911 · page 2

A fine lot of Jerseys were paddocked on Saturday by Messrs Carr Bres., which are to be trucked to-night for Tenterfield. There are 33 in the lat. and they are…

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Farmers and Dairymen

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 17 July 1911 · page 3

The runners' Conference unanimously carried a resolution in opposition to the claims of the Rural Workers' Union as the house of labour and the rates of wages…

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Wheat and Wool

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

FULLER particulars of the wheat crop of the Commonwealth show that it totalled 96,628,000 bushels. This is 6,214,000 bushels in excess…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

DALGETY and Co., Ltd., Sydney report:—Advices have been received from our London House that the fourth series of home wool…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 4

Hill, Clark, &nd Co., Ltd., Sydney, report:—Locally the wool trade is very quiet, and this state of affairs must prevail for the next few week. Our London agents advice that at the opening…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 4

THE Australian Mortgage, Land and Fiance Co., Ltd., John Bridge and Co., Ltd. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Coldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd., Harrison, Jones and…

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Bulk Handling of Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 4

The story is told of a Scotch father who gravely warned his daughter that it was a serious thing to marry, receiving the reply "Yen. father, but it is a "lore serious thing not to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 4

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. Trefle), and are based on the expreiments of the Department. Should any farmer desire information relevant to his work on the land, not…

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A Record Wool Cup. Annual Review and Statistics

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 7

We have received a copy of the "Annual Wool Review." published by Dalgety & Company, Limited, which is now in its thirteenth year of issue, and as customary, shows every…

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Farmers and Labour

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 7

John Ftzpatrick, a farmer and grazier, from Junee, giving evidence before the Labour commission. Spoke of the general shortage of farm hunds in the [?] owing to which…

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Farm Institutes

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

The Development Commission is the spend £325,000 on the establishment of farm institates in the majority of the counties samilar to that at Chelmsford, in Essex, with small…

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Our Sydney Letter the Farmers' Parliament

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 18 July 1911 · page 2

ONCE more the Farmers' and Settlers' Conference is in session. Never before were rural interests in graver danger, of being trampled…

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