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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

1,524 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 36 of 77

DAIRYING. Silage for the North Coast. Save Superabundant Pasture

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 June 1913 · page 2

The Inspector of Agriculture for the North Coast makes an appeal in the June. "Agricultural Gazette" for the increased, use of silage as some…

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Fatal Motor Accident. Farmer's Wife Killed

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 June 1913 · page 1

A fatal motor accident occurred near Temora on Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Dennis O'Keefe, senior, of Duck Creek, together with her eldest daughter and…

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Selecting Dairy Machinery. Hints for the Prospective Buyer

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 June 1913 · page 7

How many farmers are in the unhappy position of having hastily acquired a faulty piece, of machinery, whether separator, oil engine, or complete milking…

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English Farm Murder

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 June 1913 · page 6

London, Thursday.—The trial has been concluded of William Barton, a gamekeeper, charged with the murder of Winifred Mitchell, a farm servant at…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 June 1913 · page 4

Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., report:—The quietest the of the wool selling year has now arrived, and transactions are almost solely restricted to the sale of fellmongered…

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Strychnine in a Chicken. Fox Bait on a Farmer's Dinner Table

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 June 1913 · page 3

A Braintree (Essex) farmer and his family have had narrow escapes from being poisoned by a bait intended for the destruction of a vinen and a litter of fox cubs…

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Rise in Butter

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 2

Wholesale merchants in Sydney on Saturday agreed to advance butter values by 4/ per cwt., to take effect to-day, making the current rate…

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Wheat Handling. American Expert's Views

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 2

Mr. G.T. Burrell, of Chicago, who has been specially commissioned by the State Government to report on the methods in New South Wales of trucking and shipping…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Live Stock. Post Mortem Examinations. Their Value to the Farmer

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 4

At the Narrandera branch of the Agricultural Burean the Stock Inspector for the district recently drew the attention of stock owners to the…

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Latest News by Telegraph. Sydney, Tuesday afternoon. Dearer Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 5

Butter advanced 4/ per owt. at the produce markets. Choice selected brands now sell at 106/ per owt…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 1

Messrs, Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys, of 163 King-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with the farming and…

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"Meet Me in Dreamland." Farmer's Courtship

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 June 1913 · page 4

A case which caused a good deal, of a musement was heard at the Ashfield Police Court on Friday, when Joseph M'Call, a middle-aged farmer,…

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Butter Still Advancing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 June 1913 · page 4

The wholesale quotation for butter was again advanced in Sydney this morning. On this occasion the increase amounted to 6/ per cwt., and thus choicest grocers' brands…

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Wheat Handling. American Expert's Views

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 June 1913 · page 4

Mr G. T. Burrell, of Chicago, who has been specially commissioned by the State Government to report on the methods in New South Wales of tracking…

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News by Telegraph. Sydney, Thursday afternoon. Dearer Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 June 1913 · page 5

Butter has advanced six shillings per cwt. in Sussex-street. Selected brands are now 112…

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Farmer's Pecullar Death. Suffocated by Weight on Chest

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 June 1913 · page 3

A farmer named William Edward Tozer, 34, living at Boko, in the Jingern district, was found dead under a dray about two miles from Bredbo on…

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Wheat Land. Two Million Acres

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 June 1913 · page 1

In turning the first sod of tho Wyalong-Lake Cudgellice railway on Saturday last, the Premier (Mr. M'Gowen) said that within the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. or the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 June 1913 · page 6

Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trafie Minster ago, and based mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 110. PASTORAL…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 June 1913 · page 5

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Traf[?], Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 110. PASTORAL…

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Career of a Pioneer Farmer. Interesting Autobiography

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 13 June 1913 · page 6

Fifty years have passed since I left the shores of dear old England, the land of my birth, and home of my fathers. The greater part of that time I have lived in the…

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