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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Tro[?]c 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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Fanners' Wheat Plots. Wheat Experiments of 1911

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 2

Several features of importance will present themselves to farmers who carefully peruse the results of the farmers' experiment plots in 1911, as published…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Agricultural. Harrow the Wheat. Why and When

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 2

"Harrow your growing wheat, and harrow it now." That is the burden of a short paper in the "Agricultural Gazette" for…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Tref[?], 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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Wool Market. John Bridge and Co.'s Report

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 6

No sales have been held in any of the markets of the Commonwealth this last week, but the same strong inquiry at prices fully equal to…

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The Rotation at Bathurst. with Special, Reference to Wheat

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 2

The relation of the rotation practised at Bathurst Experiment Farm to the returns from wheat is most interesting, and a reference to the records shows…

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No. 66. Agricultural. Harrow the Wheat. Why and When

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 6

"Harrow your growing wheat, and harrow it now." That is the burden of a short paper in the Agricultural Gazette for August,…

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Dairying. the Herd and the Tester

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 August 1912 · page 13

The New Zealand Department of Agriculture has given currency to the following letter from a dairy-farmer in the Dominion "At the end of the season after I started…

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Agriculture. Harrow the Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 August 1912 · page 6

"Harrow your growing wheat and burrow it now." That is the burden of a short paper in the "Agricultural Gazette" for August, in which…

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American Wool Tariff. the President's Veto. Washington, Aug. 10

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 August 1912 · page 5

President Tan has vetoed the wool tariff rates on the ground that they are so low that they would injure the industry, and throw thousands of people idle…

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High-priced Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 4

Messrs. Blaxland and Wolfe, auctioneers, sold yesterday, at Campbell's Hill, a consignment of sheep from Mr. D. H. Allan, Negoa, Muswellbrook, for the handsome…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

Winchcombe Carson, Ltd., report under date 12th August:—The Sydney wool market is without change. Business is confined to very narrow limits…

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Dungog Co.Op. Butter Factory. Half Yearly Meeting

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2

The chairman of Directory, Mr R. W. Alison, presided over the half yearly meeting of the above factory, held in Victoria hall, on Saturday…

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Wool Storemen and Stevedores. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 2

An agreement in respect to wages [?] conditions for men employed in handling wool has been arrived at between the Storemen's Union and the…

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Murrumbidgee Irrigation Farms. Important Residence Concession

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 4

Mr. Griffith, President of the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Trust, says that in the new land legislation which the Government intends to…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 1

Merrs Griƒith and Hassel, Patent Ateys, of 163 King[?]st., Sydney, report [?] the following applications for pa[?] coñected wiih the farming and…

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Coming to Australia. Dissatisfied Canadian Farmers

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 August 1912 · page 3

Mr George Johnson, an English farmer, at present in Sydney, has abandoned, after a trial of two seasons, farm land which he had taken up in…

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United States Wool Bill. Washington

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 5

Despite President Taft's veto, the Democrats in the House of Representatives secured the repealed passage of the Wool Bill. It is expected that the Senate will support…

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Dairying Points

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 August 1912 · page 4

Guesswork testing is no good. Bach cow should have her milk tested and weighed during the whole period of lactation (says n contemporary). Dairying is all right…

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