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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

1,643 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 81 of 83

Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 4

These 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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Dairy Farmers' Association of N.S.W.

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 4

A meeting of the executive of the above was held at the office, 114a Pitt-street, Sydney, on 26th and 27th November, 1912. All members…

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Dairying. Heed Testing. What Experience Taught

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

Six years ago Mr. Burgess, a New Zealand farmer, started testing his dairy herd, and an account of his experience appears in the "Journal of…

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Dairying. Herd Testing. What Experience Taught

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 4

Six years ago Mr. Burgess, a NewZealand farmer, started testing his dairy herd, and an account of his experience appears in the "Journal of…

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Dairying Under Irrigation. Remarkable Jersey Yields

The Scone Advocate · Friday 20 December 1912 · page 8

IT is expected that dairying will be taken up extensively on the Murrumbidgee irrigation settlements, and, this being so, it is…

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Pastoral. Improving the Pastures

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 12

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

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Estimated Wheat Yield

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 6

The Acting Government Statistical furnishes a report respecting the estimated wheat production for the current season. It is probable that 2227[?]…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 2

JOHN BRIDGE AND Co. LTD., REPORT: On Wednesday, 18th instant, they held their eleventh sale of the season and last before the Xmas recess. Their catalogue,…

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PASTORAL. i Improving the Pastures. Growers' Suggestions—With Comments

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 6

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

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Poultry. I Smutted Wheat As Feed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 6

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

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The Dorset Horn. the Sheep for Early Maturity

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 9

The suitability of the Dorset Horn for early lambs was demonstrated by the weights taken recently of lambs dropped at Wagga Experiment Farm this year. The season was an…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 6

These Notes arc issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Tre[?] Minister of Agriculture, and are hosed 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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Farm and Dairy Notes. Agricultural Education

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 12

The interest taken in Maitland in the subject of agricultural education and the persona popularity of Mr. Potts were evidenced last week, in the goodly company…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land Agricultural. Their Relation to Cultivation

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 2

In the November number of the Victorian "Journal of Agriculture," the Agricultural Superintendent for that State discusses manurial problems,…

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Dairying. Herd Testing. What Experience Taught

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus

Six yearn ago Mr. Burgess, a New Zealand farmer, started testing his dairy herd, and an account of his experience appears in the "Journal of…

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Farming for Women

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 9

Miss Lilian Hamilton, the warden of the Studley Horticultural College for Women, advocated at a meeting of the Women's Union a scheme of co-operative farming…

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The Grape Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 4

During the week the first lot of black Hamburg grapes this season ,was forwarded to the Sydney market by Messrs. Scobie Bros., of "The Gardens,"…

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Dairying. Herd Testing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 12

Six years ago Mr. Burgess, a New Zealand farmer [?] testing his dairy herb, and an account of his experience appears in the "Journal of Agriculture" of the Dominion…

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Dairying. Management of Paspalum

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 December 1912 · page 9

It is now generally recognised, says the manager of the Wollongbar experiment farm, that paspalum, when one it becomes heavily matted, is poor feed, all other flora…

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