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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

1,643 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 41 of 83

Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 2 July 1912 · page 4

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

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Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 July 1912 · page 7

During the half-year just closed cream valued at £560,528 was supplied to the Cessnock over 103 tons of butter, valued at…

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Butter Making Business

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 July 1912 · page 5

Mr. Joseph Vindin, of Bowthorn Creamery, said before the wages board that butter-making was not a highly skilled trade. A man could, learn to make as good butter in…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 3 July 1912 · page 1

FOR week ending June 29, 1912: —Wool.—During the past week business has been principally confined to dealing with passed in lots from the…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 July 1912 · page 4

John Bridge & Co., Ltd., report :—Very little business has been transacted in the local markers during the week, the attention of the brokers having been confined…

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Price of Butter. Arranged in Sussex-street

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 July 1912 · page 7

Giving evidence before the Butter Factories Wages Boards, Mr. C. E. Meares, secretary of the Coastal Farmers' Association. Ltd. said that the price of butter was arranged…

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The Wool Year

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 2

The end of June marks the close of the wool year. The record, he far, is favorable Up to the end of 1911 the number of sheep in the State…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 5

At the wool sales the prices indicated were realised for the undermentioned clips: —Australian Ashmore, highest 14d, average 13½d: Rosewood, 10½d, 9 5-8d. New…

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Pastoral. Silage. How to Make a Cheap Silo

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 6

In the throes of the severest season since the disastrous year 1902, farmers are perhaps disposed (writes the senior Inspector of Agriculture), to consider…

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Cattle Poisoning by Thistles Effective Treatment. Important Discovery

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 2

At the regular monthly meeting of the Upper Hunter P.P. Board yesterday, the Inspector (Mr. C. Brooks) reported as follows:—…

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Cultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 6

[?]os are every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trade, Minister [?] are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. [?] can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be [?] the Individual producer…

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Child Labour. Toil on Dairy Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 2

"The bitter tale of child slavery," It is related in some of the reports of the inspectors of schools for the year 1911. "The facts tell the bitter tale—comment is…

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The Raymond Terrace Co-operative Dairy and Produce Co., Limited. Factory Report for June 1912

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 5 July 1912 · page 3

The high prices ruling through the winter have been well maintained, and 140s was ruling at the close of the mouth with a firm market for best qualities…

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Pastoral. Cleansing Polluted Water

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 11

During periods of dry weather supplies of domestic water have often to be drawn from tanks that have been polluted by stock, or from streams that have also been polluted by…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 1

JOHN BRIDGE AND Co., LTD., REPORT: Wool —Very little business has been transacted in the local market during the week, the attention of the brokers having…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Tobacco Crop. Increased Yields Better Methods

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 5

The report of the tobacco expert with regard to the western and southern districts, which is now available, has a tone as optimistic as that of the…

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Pastoral. Silage. How to Make a Cheap Silo

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 6

In the throes of the severest season since the disastrous year 1902, farmers are perhaps disposed (writes the senior Inspector of Agriculture), to consider…

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Price of Butter. . Arranged in Sussex-street

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 5

Giving evidence before the Butter Factories' Wages Board, Mr. C. E. Meares, secretary of the Coastal Farmers' Association, Ltd., said that the price of…

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Price of Butter. Arranged in Sussex-street

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 5

Giving evidence before the Butter Factories' Wages Board, Mr. C. E. Meares, secretary of the Coastal Farmers' Association, Ltd. said that the price of butter was arranged…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 July 1912 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefld, 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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