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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

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The Dairy. Milk Fever. Cause and Treatment

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 5

Milk fever can be largely mitigated by careful management. An English expert states that the direct cause Is generally due to a clot of blood that presses…

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The Scottish Commission's Report. Part Iv. a Day at Wagga Experiment Farm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 4

We must content ourselves with a mere jotting of the visit to this important institution. We found the Experiment Farm nicely situated, on a long…

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Care of Farm Harness

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 14

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

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Dairymen and Milk Vendors. Milk Vendors' Ball

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 4

The fourth annual ball and supper under the auspices of the West Maitland Milk Vendors' Association was held in the Town Hall on Wednesday. Prior to the commencement of…

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Farm and Field. Notes and News. Pedigree Herd Book for Pigs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 September 1911 · page 14

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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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 September 1911 · page 4

Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., Sydney, report:— We offered our first sale of the season on Thursday, when the selection was made up of chiefly early shorn wools from the Western…

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Farm and Dairy Notes, San" Jose Scale Killer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 September 1911 · page 3

During the last two or three years the Oklahoma (U.S.A.) Experiment Station has been experimenting with a natural enemy of the Sun low scale. This enemy is a fungus growth,…

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Farmyard Manure

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 12 September 1911 · page 3

There is no fertiliser 'that can be more profitably, used oil the reulting by-product in feeding live stock animals of all classes. The solid…

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Scone Co-operative Dairy Company. Half-yearly Meeting

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 12 September 1911 · page 2

THE adjourned half-yearly meeting of the above was held on Thursday morning last, when there were present: Messrs. F. A. Parbury Chairman of directors),…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 12 September 1911 · page 1

Mesrs Griffith and Hassel, Patent At[?], of 163 King-street, Sydney, and Queen-street, Melbourne, report that following applications for patents…

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The Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report:—At to-day's sale we found good competition from continental operators. Prices for good growths of fleece wool showed a decline of 2½…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 1

FOR week ending September 9, 1911: Wool.—The opening sales of the busy wool selling season were held during the past week, when the…

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Farmers and Settlers Association Woodville Branch

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 September 1911 · page 6

A meeting of the above association was held on the 6th instant Mr. G. Bishop the president, occupying the chair. The Harbors and Rivers Departs…

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Sale of Store Cattle

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 September 1911 · page 2

In this issue Messrs J. A. Simpson and Co. announce the sale of 600 store cattle at the Scone yards, at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow (l5th inst.). These cattle…

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Child Labor. Rabbit-Trapping and Dairying

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 September 1911 · page 2

"Child labor is interfering considerably with the good, work of our schools and helping to cripple our nation," was the opinion expressed by District…

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The Farmers' Burden. Grain Diverted to Melbourne

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 September 1911 · page 1

Owing to the stoppage of loading operations at the wheat wharfs at Daring Island, charters which had been we to load grain at Sydney have been…

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Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory, Ltd. REPORT

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 September 1911 · page 2

The output for August was 14 ton 4 cwt. 67 lbs., for which suppliers were paid £1688 13s 10d. Price paid 1st—5th at 12 3/8d, 7th—31st at…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 September 1911 · page 5

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 of the Department. With its organisation the Department should be enabled to solve for the…

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Cotton Crop. New York. Scot. .14."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 September 1911 · page 5

It is estimated that the notion crop will yield 1,200,000,000 bales…

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Store Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 September 1911 · page 4

Au important sale of store cattle is advertised by Messrs Edward Higgens, Parkinson, and Co., to take place at the Muswellbrook yards on Tuesday next,…

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