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Farming & the land, 1911

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Farmers' Free List. Washington, Aug. 19

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 21 August 1911 · page 3

The House of Representatives has failed to pass the Farmers Free List over the presidential veto. Mr James a member of the House of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 4

Dalgety & Co. Ltd. Sydney, report: Consignments of wool continue to [?] freely, the total receipts from July 18 up to the present time…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 4

Hill, Clark, and Co., Ltd., report:—The opening of the new season has now almost arrived, and though quietness in trade will prevail until the auction, sales start, the enquiry privately shows a…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 4

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

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Preventing Growth of Horns

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 2

Replying to a correspondent the "American Agriculturist" has the following article on the prevention of the growth of horas:— Doubtles the most satisfactory way to handle…

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Some Dairy Rules

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 2

Professor Carlyle, the well-known dairy authority in the Colorado Agricultural College (says the "Kansas Farmer") has laid down Home rules for work to be followed…

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Correspondence. Testing Dairy Cows. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate.)

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 2

SIR,—I desire to bring prominently before suppliers of the local factory the information that I am prepared to test their cows during this…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 1

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

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Dairying. How We Are Losing

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 August 1911 · page 4

The increase in the productive powers of dairy herds through systematic herdtesting in some European countries, as referred to in previous notes, should…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. Pedigree Herd Book for Pigs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 6

An important problem which confronts the man about to go on the land— and not infrequently the man already there— is the kind of pig that should be permitted to…

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Care Farm Harness

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 23 August 1911 · page 6

Addressing himself to the question of farm harness at a meeting of the Blythe branch of the South Australian Farmers Bureau, Mr. C. Lehman made the…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 4

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory Limited, will be held in the School of Arts at Morpeth to-morrow (Saturday…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:— The prospects of the wool market for the coming season continue bright, in spite of the industrial war cloud in England,…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 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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The World's Crops. Rome, Aug. 24

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 5

The international Agricultural institute estimates that the total yield of wheat for the principal producing countries will be about 5.6 per cent, above that of 1911…

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Dairying. White Scour in Calves

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 6

A dairy fanner in the Richmond River district has had trouble in roaring his young calves, through their being attacked with "white scour." During the past two years…

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Against the Interests of Farmers. Toronto

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 5

Mr. Clifford Sefton, ex-Minister, while campaigning at Ontario, pointed out that Argentina and Australia were putting ments and dairy products on the Canadian market…

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Australian Commonwealth Contingent. Dreadnought Farm Boys London. Thursday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 August 1911 · page 5

Mr. Coghlan, Agent-general for New South Wales, is despatching 12 Dreadnought farm boys with Major Wynne's cadets. The boys will undergo drill during the vovage…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 4

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report:—The new clip has been arriving in heavy quantities during the past week, though in all probability we will now see a temporary…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 August 1911 · page 6

These Notes will be Issued every week, under the direction, of the Honorary Minister for Agriculture (Hon J. L. Trefle), and are based mainly on the experiments…

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