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Farming & the land, 1913

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 June 1913 · page 3

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association, namely, Australian Mercantile, Land, and Finance Co., Ltd…

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Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory Ltd. to Our Suppliers and Shareholders

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 June 1913 · page 2

At a meeting on 19th inst. your Board of Directors decided that in the interests of the company it is advisable to shift the butter factory…

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Britain's Farm Labourers. Varied Weekly Earnings

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 June 1913 · page 6

It is a curious fact that, in regard to wages, captains of industry do not know what they can do until they try, and the fact was never better illustrated than n…

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Bee Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 June 1913 · page 4

The Minister of Agricultural holds the view that State Government have hitherto paid too little attention to the encouragement of bee farming. Recently Mr. Tretle appointed a…

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Butter Factory Competition

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 4

At the butter exhibition in connection with the Dairy Factor Managers' Association yesterday, against great competition the Bowthorne Factory, Morpeth, of which…

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Share-farming Dispute. Clift v. THOMAS

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 7

In No. 1 Jury Court, Sydney, before Mr. Justice Pring, the actions Cliff v. Thomas and Thomas v Cliff were settled…

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Blazing Railway Bridge. Farmer's Daughter Saves Express

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 2

Hot Springs (Arkansas), Tuesday.— A stirring story of how a farmer's daughter saved a train full of passengers from a fearful fate is the topic of the…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 June 1913 · page 1

Messra. Grifth 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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Butter Exhibition

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

The butter exhibition, held in Sydney this week in connection with the Factory Managers' Conference, attracted a large number of…

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Butter Exhibition Results

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 4

In another column we publish an article dealing with the exhibition held in Sydney on Wednesday under the auspices of the Dairy Factory Managers' Association. The…

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Pirating a Butter Brand

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

A case of some interest to butter factories and shopkeepers was recently tried in Ballarat (Vic.), when a grocer was charged with having sold butter bearing…

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High Price of Butter and Eggs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 6

On account of the great extension of the dairying industry butter is now plentiful throughout the Commonwealth, and its high price, in the circumstances, is,…

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Butter Factory Competition. Bowthorne Factory Champion

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 3

As briefly intimated yesterday, the Bowthorne butter factory gained a splendid series of successes at the butter factory exhibition held in Sydney, under the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 6

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefle, Minister of Agriculture, and are basel mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 112. AGRICULTURAL…

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Sydney Wool Sales. A. M. L. and F. Co., Ltd., REPORT

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

Actual transactions in wool continue to be very small. Sales will be held iu Brisbane next week, and in Sydney the following week. Catalogues in the…

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Weather and Crops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

Since the beginning of May 13 inches of rain have fallen, and the weather shows no signs of clearing at present. This is one of the wettest winters on record, and…

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Municipal Farm Lands

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 4

Complaints as to the excessive racing on farm lands within municipalities have become chronic (says the "Clarence and Richmond Examiner,") Still the unfair and inequitable…

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Farmers' School

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 4

Mr George Glover, son of Mr and Mrs Glover, of Underbank, left Dungog on Tuesday morning last for the Hawkesbury Agricultural…

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Share-Farming Dispute. CLIFT v. THOMAS

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 June 1913 · page 2

IN No. 1 Jury Court, Sydney, before Mr. Justice Pring, the actions, Clift v. Thomas and Thomas v. Clift, were settled. Mr. Loxton, K.C., and Dr…

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Pastoral. Sheep on the North Coast

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 June 1913 · page 11

In a report on a recent trip through the Manning district the sheep and wool expert reaffirms his opinion that sheep can be made a profitable adjunct to farming on the…

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