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Farming & the land, 1911

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 4

Trebeck, son and Co., sydney, report:— No local sales this week, all the buyers being in Brisbane. Last sales denote a very firm market for good wools, and faulty lines show an impovement…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports FOR week ending November 25 1911

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 6 December 1911 · page 1

Wool —Another week of excellent prices, has to be recorded. Competition has been animated and well sustained, and the best features of recent auctions were well…

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Wheat Growing in Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 December 1911 · page 4

It is gratifying to find from reports received from various parts of Australia that good crops of wheat are being grown with fair regularity even under conditions which in previous…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 2

At John Bridge & Co 's sale : St. Elmo. W M C. Scone. 10 at 13¼d, 17 at 12d, 8 at l0¼d, 12 at 9d. 13 (pcs.) at 7¼d. (Omitted from…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Traffic, Minister of 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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Bumper Crops in Canada. Montreal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 5

In Manitoba province the grain vied has been 100,000,000 bushels. cuts 74,000,000 bushels, and barley 30,000,000 bushels the most prosperous your of the past decade…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 4

A meeting of members and intending members of the newly formed branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association will be held in the Largs School of Arts on…

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Canada Through Australian Spectacles Farmers' Institutes Chapter Vi

The Scone Advocate · Friday 8 December 1911 · page 4

Long ago—as men count time—I saw a collection of precious things exhumed from an old palace-town in Etruria. I had never heard of Etruria before, nor of the Etruscans, but they were an ancient people, who had flourished before the Romans. They were an…

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Wheat Growing in Australia

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

It is gratifying to find from reports received from various parts of Australia that good crops of wheat arc being grown with fair regularity even under conditions which in previous…

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Vegetable Matter in Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 5

At a meeting in London the international committee on vegetable fibre in wool supported the following resolution, which had been passed by [?] Roubaix Conference in…

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The Sheep-killer. Feat of Two Boys

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 16

A half-bred native dog, which had for two year's been the terror of sheepowners in Gundaroo district, near Goulburn, came to a dramatic end a few days ago…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 4

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L.Trefle Minister of 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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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Haulage Train on Common Roads

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 2

To cheapen the cost of marketing produce is an important matter for the rural producers. Evidently, the time, is approaching when mechanical power will…

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Canada Through Australian:::::: Spectacles:::::: Farmers' Institutes Chapter Vi

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 December 1911 · page 4

Long ago—as men count time—I saw a collection of precious things exhumed from an old palace-town in Etruria. I had never heard of Etruria before, nor of the Etruscans, but they were an ancient people, who had flourished before the Romans. They were an…

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Sydney Wool, Market

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

Hill Clark. and' Co, Limited, Sydney', report: The Sydney sales i have been suspended this week to allow buyers to attend the auctions in Brisbane, where the market is reported firm with good…

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Wheat Afloat. London, Dec. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 11 December 1911 · page 5

The shipments of grain afloat on December 7 were:—United Kingdom, 2,885,000 quarters Continent, 1,260,000 quarters. The wheat shipped from the Atlantic coast…

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Guessing Weight of Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 7

Seventy—one tickets were sold for the sheep guessing competition in connection with the Northern Agricultural Association's sports on Saturday last. The weight of the sheep…

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Sydney Wool Market

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

Trebeck, Son and Co., report.—Market reopened again this week very firm at late rates with strong demand for all greasy wool…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports. FOR week ending December 9. 1911

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 13 December 1911 · page 1

Wool.—No auction sales have been held in the Sydny market during-the-past week in accordance with the roster arrangements providing for a recess in Sydney during…

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Local News. Sheep-Guessing Competition

Singleton Argus · Thursday 14 December 1911 · page 2

There were 71 tickets sold for the sheep-guessing competition in connection with the N.A.A. sports on Saturday last. The weight was found to bo 52 lbs, and…

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