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Farming & the land, 1911

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 4

Trebeck, Son and Co., Sydney, report;- Sydney local sales were held last week. The market for good wools held strong, and prices inclined to firm. Faulty lots show to improvements on late…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 4

FOR week ending August 5, 1911:—Wool.—The final series of winter sales were held in the Sydney market on Tuesday and Wednesday last,…

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Fare and Dairy Notes. Red Polls As Deal-purpose Animals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 7

The following notes (says a correspondents the "Live stock Journal"), taken at the Home farm, Letton (Thetford) of the cattle. the property of Lord Cranworth show the…

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Arbitration. International [?] Farmed. Washington, August 8

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 August 1911 · page 5

President Taft, anxious to organise public opinion on favour of arbitration treaties, is touring Maryland and West Virginia commending such agreements…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 August 1911 · page 4

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Bowthorne Co-operative Butler Factory, Limited, will he held at the School of Arts, Morpeth, on Saturday. 26th instant, to…

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Wheat Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 August 1911 · page 5

The cargo of wheat (94,297 bags) by the steamer Star of Australia, which left Sydney on June 29, has been sold at 34s 4½ per quarter, c.i.f…

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Dairying in New South Wales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 August 1911 · page 6

A great area of New South Wales is Butted to dairying. It should be one of the most highly payable of our rural Industries. There Is, however, much to be done yet to…

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British Crops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 August 1911 · page 5

The "Times" special crop report gives the condition of British crops on August 1 as follows:—Wheat, 95 per cent.; barley, 86.6 per cent.; oats, 83.7 per cent…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 August 1911 · page 5

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. J. Trefle), 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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Dairying in New South Wales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 August 1911 · page 4

Very valuable contributions to agricultural knowledge are being widely disseminated weekly by the budget from the Agricultural Department such as regularly appear in our…

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Butter Prizes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 4

There are at present, on view in the jewellery window of Messrs. Anthony and Beaver, two handsome silver cups procured by the Hunter River Agricultural and…

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Improving Our Butter Standard. Dairy Science School

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 9

Our Agricultural Department is more ready to assist in raising the standard of the butter produced in the State than operators of the industry are prepared to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man of the Land. Dairying

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 2

A great area, of New South Wales is suited to dairying. It should be one of the most highty-payable of out rural industries. There is, however, much to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 6

These Notes will be issued every week, under the direction of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon. J. L. T[?]), 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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Improving Farm Pastures Influence of Super

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 5

The influence on pasture of heavy or light dressings of phosphatic manures applied to the wheat crops, is discussed in a report of experiments issued from…

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Farm and Field. Notes and News

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 9

Application for land have been lodged with the Crown Lands Agent at East Maitland land as follows:—willoughby Humphries, c.p. 8¼ acres (conversion of h.s 04/2),…

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Dutch Dairy Methods

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 August 1911 · page 9

In the Netherlands the conference of the British Dairy Farmers' Association was held last month, 129 representatives of the British industry, including some 30 ladies, enjoying…

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A Butter Famine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 August 1911 · page 5

The butter famine In Sydney' is the worst for 20 years, and is due to. the fault of a large number of vessels being bar bound on the North Coast,…

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Local News. Sheep Sale

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 2

Among the list of stock for sale at the Shire saleyards to-morrow (Wednesday), by Messrs H. York and Son, is a draft of sheep on account of C. G. York,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 August 1911 · page 2

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report:—Consignments of the new clip are now arriving in quantity, more especially from the Brewarrina, Coonamble, Burren Junction,…

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