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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

1,643 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 80 of 83

The Dairy. Production of Cheese. Sctence and Practice

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 December 1912 · page 6

Cheese-making has been practically reduced to a science, wherein every detail of manufacture is carefully studied, and so adjusted as to produce…

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The Eclipse Pumper. Makes Farming Easy

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 December 1912 · page 3

Country residents are reminded that Mr. Chas. H. Relph, consulting engineer, of 59 Pitt Street, Sydney, is the solo agent for Fairbanks-Horse Eclipso…

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Farm Profits. Bathurst Demonstration Area

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1912 · page 10

In the November issue of the "Agricultural Gazette," the manager of Bathurst Experiment Farm reports the financial result of the operations of the demonstration…

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Dairying. Hints on Cheese-making

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 December 1912 · page 14

"Trouble is experienced during the summer months by most cheese-makers on account of the high of the milk in the morning," writes one of the experts of the dairy branch…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 December 1912 · page 4

Hill, Clark, rind Co., Ltd., report:—No auctions hold in Sydney last week, an buyers were absent in Brisbane attending sales in that centre. The market is firm without change on last quotations…

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Cultivation for Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 December 1912 · page 4

Some farmers have lost a number of cattle, owing to the scarcity of grass and the slow growth of oats other green fodder (says the Macleay River…

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Important Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 17 December 1912 · page 4

In our advertising columns in this issue, it is notified that Messrs. McGregor and Travers, will offer at auction, at the Municipal Yards, Glen Innes, on Saturday next,…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1912 · page 2

Hill, Clarrk and Co., report under date, 13th December, 1912:—No auctions have been held in Sydney this week as buyers were absent in…

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Australia's Greatest industry. the Wool Industry

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 December 1912 · page 4

Fifty years' service in the wool-selling trade gave occasion, this week, for a tribute by his colleagues to Mr. A. H. Moore,…

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Malting Barley. a Crop That Pays

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 December 1912 · page 4

The growing of malting barley is a rather neglected industry in New South Wales, but the Wagga Experiment Farm has done something to popularise…

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The Dairy. Age Op Diary Cows. the Milking Period

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 18 December 1912 · page 5

The majority of dairy cows (states a writer in the "South Australian Agricultural Journal") are rejected from the herd on account of failure to breed,…

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Dairy Registration

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 December 1912 · page 6

The Cessnock police desire to direct the attention of dairymen to the fact that they have no time to lose in respect to the registration of their dairies. Renewals must be…

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Dairying Under Irrigation. Remarkable Jersey Yields

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 December 1912 · page 1

It is expected that dairying will be taken up extensively on the Murrumbidgve irrigation settements, and this being so, it is cncouraging to find that…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

John Bridge and Company, Limited, report that on Wednesday they hold their eleventh sale of the season, and last before the Christmas recess. Their catalogues,…

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Pastoral. Improving the Pastures. Growers' Suggestions—With Comments

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 4
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

A distinctly interesting and useful discussion was that which wan provoked at a recent meeting of the Coonabarabran branch of tho Agricultural Bureau…

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Poultry. Smutted Wheat As Feed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 4
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

The Department gives a word at warning to poultry keepers, who, in their desire to obtain the cheapest poultry died, purchase smutted wheat…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 2

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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