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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

1,643 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 59 of 83

Electricity and the Farmer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 September 1912 · page 4

Niagara Falls is to work for the Ontario farmer as well as for the city dweller (writes a Toronto correspondent). Mr. Adam Beck announces that the…

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A Dear Cattle Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 September 1912 · page 4

Very high rates ruled for cattle at the Campbell's Hill saleyards again to-day Only a light supply was available and the market was active with values very firm…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 September 1912 · page 4

Hill Clark and Co., report:—The first of the regular sales of the new season was held on Monday, when we brought forward 1076 bales, this being the largest catalogue…

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Dehorning Dairy Cattle

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 4

" The Useless Horn" is the title of the following article by R. L. Rinckwitz in the " Country Gentleman":—…

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Bowthorne Butter Company

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 2

The monthly report of Mr. J. S. Vindin, manager of the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory Ltd., shows that during August supplies of cream…

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Gresford Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 2

An inquiry into the destruction by fire recently of the Gresford branch of the Bowthorne Co-op. Butter Factory, Ltd., was held at Gresford on…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report under date 12th inst. :—Very keen competition characterised our yesterday's sale. The market ruled…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 8

Clark and Co. report under [?]th inst. :—The first of the sales of the new season old on Monday, when we…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 4

The New Zealand Loan and Mercanrle Agency Co. report:—We offered our first catalogue of wool in the weekly series to-day, when we presented 1083 bales, drawn…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Treff[?], 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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The Cattle King. Risk From a Station Hand. Cruelty on Railways

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 1

"I am a pastoralist, and have been associated with the industry since 1876," said Mr. Sidney Kidman, the Cattle Kind, before the Royal…

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The Farmers' Friend

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 3

Owing to the great demands for hay battens at Mr. W. Longworth's mills, at Thornton, last summer, it was a customary thing to see many farmers making two or…

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The Dairy. Flavors in Milk. the Aeration Treatment

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 September 1912 · page 6

An American agricultural bulletin indicates various ways in which abnormal odors and flavors may be acquired by milk. The cow may, through some…

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Store Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 4

At the Campbell's Hill yards, on Monday next, Mr. J. H. Brunker will offer at auction 200 head of well-bred mixed store cattle, on account of various owners…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 4

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report:—For our second sale of the season we brought forward on Thursday, the 12th instant, a catalogueof 17[?] bales, consisting of wools from the Castlereagh…

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The Area Under Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 1

It was hoped that the area placed under wheat this year might make up for the shortage, which, owing to the drought in the early part of the…

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Meat Dearer Than Ever. Homebush Cattle Market

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 4

The prices at the cattle market at Homebush on Thursday were the highest for years. Prime light beef repeatedly cost 40/- and, in some instances,…

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Kidman. the Cattle King. Once a Station Hand

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 7

I am a pastoralist and have been associated with the industry since 1876," said Mr. Sidney Kidman, the Cattle King, before the Royal…

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Kidman, the Cattle King. Once a Station Hand

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1912 · page 7

"I am a pastoralist, and have been associated with the industry since 1876," said Mr. Sidney Kidman the Cattle King, before the Royal Commission on Food Supply yesterday…

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