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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

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The Royal Show. Wheat Entries

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 1

Schedules for the Royal Show are now available and may be had from the Secretary of the Royal Agricultural Society on application. Copies…

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Pastoral. Farmers' Wool. Hints on Marketing

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 4

Some useful suggestion on the preparation of farmers' lots of wool for market were made by Mr. Cuthbert Howard in a paper read by him before…

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Australian Butter Export

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 3

A deputation representing various co-operative butter factories had an interview with the Minister for External Affairs on Monday over the report of the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefid Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 87. AGRICULTURAL…

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Marketing Australian Butter. Mr. Reid's Comments Resented. London, Thursday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 4

The cabled summary of the report by Mr. George, High Commissioner for Australia, on the marketing of Australian butter in London has aroused dissent in Tooley-street…

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Instruction in Dairying. Wollongbar Experiment Farm

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 4

For the young man who wishes to make dairying his vocation, there is no question that Wollongbar experiment farm is the place to acquire the…

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Dairying. Lucerne on the Richmond. Profitable in Several Ways

The Scone Advocate · Friday 3 January 1913 · page 4

As was remarked in a previous article in these notes, the farmers on the Richmond River find that paspalum has not the feeding value where time and…

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Pastoral. Farmers' Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 12

Some useful suggestions on te preparation of farmers' wool for market were made by Mr. Cuthbert Howard in a paper read by him before the Balldale branch of the…

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Pastoral. Farmers' Wool. Hints on Marketing

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4

Some useful suggestions on the preparation of farmers' lots of wool for market were made by Mr. Cuthbert Howard in a paper read by him before…

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Pastoral. Improving the Pastures

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 9

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

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Instruction in Dairying. Wollongbar Experiment Farm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury, Singleton Argus

For the young man who wishes to make dairying his vocation, there is no question that Wollongbar experiment. farm is the place to acquire the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Foe the Man on the Land. Agricultural. Soil Fertility. the Value of Animals

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 6

The editor of an American agricultural paper was recently asked if he could name the figure at which land became too valuable to be used for…

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Dairying. Lucerne on the Richmond. Profitable in Several Ways

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus

As was remarked in a previous article in these notes, the farmers on the Richmond River find that paspalum has not the feeding value where time and…

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Dairying. Lucerne on the Richmond

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 12

As was remarked in a previous article in these notes, the farmers on the Richmond River find that paspalum has not the feeding value where time and luxuriant growth…

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Dairying. Herd Testing

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 9

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 Agriculture" of the Dominion…

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Fell Down a Well. Farmer's Wife's Death

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 3

A peculiar fatality happened at Barnawartha, a few miles from Albury. Mrs Baiter, wife of James Baxter, of Dry Creek, was employed helping her father…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. 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. No. 87. Agricultural. Story of a King and Queen

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4

Under the above title a bulletin of the Illinois Agricultural Station tells a little story for Illinois children, which is not without a wider application…

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