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Farming & the land, 1911

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Farm and Field. Notes and News

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 November 1911 · page 9

The fat lamb business is introducing the [?]ugh on many grazing properties, and more of the plough is wanted on Australian any farms…

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Water Required to Produce a Crop

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 November 1911 · page 9

A bulletin recently issued by the Colorrdo Experiment Station Says:— However important is the question of rotations and manure, there are other…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 November 1911 · page 4

Hill, Clark and CO., Ltd., sydney, report—After a cessation of a week during the absence of the huyers in Brisbane, sales were resumed in Sydney again on Monday…

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Important Sale Ok Dairy Stock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 November 1911 · page 2

A notification Has been in the.Mercury, for some weeks to the effect that on, Saturday the 18th Instant, Mr. C. H. Tindale will offer for pale at Minnie Vale, Wyong,…

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Dairying Watering Milk

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 November 1911 · page 6

When prosecuted for selling milk containing what is termed "added water," vendors have sometimes contended, in defence that the milk must havebeen watered indirectly…

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A Critic of Dairy Inspection

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 13 November 1911 · page 4

A farmer correspondent of the "Macleay Argus" doesn't mince matters when dealing with some of the Government dairy inspector. He says he has been in places where the so-called…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 14 November 1911 · page 4

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

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Wool Scourers at Work

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 November 1911 · page 5

The wool scourers resumed work to-day, but it is understood there is still a considerable amount of friction between the employers and employees…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 14 November 1911 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. reports:—At our wool sale to-day there was strong competition at unchanged prices. We sold Gowang greasy, from Coolah…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 4

Trobeak Son. & Co.. Sydney. report:—Local markets show a [?] demand for faulty wools and increased competition. with no actual. rise in prices yet. The best clips are…

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Wool Sales at Night. Agents Fined Under Old Law

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 15 November 1911 · page 5

Representatives of Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Younghusband and Co., and J. Colquhoun and Co. were prosecuted at Albury on Tuesday in the Police Court for selling wool…

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Bedated Wheat. Winnieeg, Nov. 15

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 November 1911 · page 5

Fifty million bushels of wheat still await threshing in consequence of the unseasonable weather and a heavy loss is expected…

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Farmers and Settlers. Deputation to This Premier

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 November 1911 · page 3

A deputation from the Farmers and Settlers' Association waited on Mr. M'Gowen, the State Premier, to lay before him a number of resolutions adopted by the annual…

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The Farmers and the Burrinjuck Lands

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 November 1911 · page 4

The Farmers and Settlers' Association yesterday presented to the State Premier a series of resolutions that had been adopted by the recent annual conference. The…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 November 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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[?]Airying. Tuberculosis in Dairy Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 5

The dairy-farmer would obviate loss in more closely watching for disease among its cattle. He should be particularly concerned in having his herds tested for…

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Dungog Co-op Butter Factory, Ltd

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 2

The manager, Mr Searl, reports as follows:—For the month of October the above factory made 32 tons 13cwt. 65lbs., for which…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister or Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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Butter and Cheese Factory, Creamery, and Condensed Milk Factories

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 8

Hours per week, 48. Rate per week. Foreman..............L3 10 0 Enginedriver............3 5 0…

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The Dairy. Suitable Fodder Crops. Dry District Plants

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 November 1911 · page 6

In reporting on the experiments in fodder crops conducted in the Western Districts of Now South Wales, the Government Inspector of that State (Mr…

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