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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

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Some Good Sheep and Cattle Prices

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1913 · page 4

Last Thursday at Flemington stiles, Sydney, Messrs Badgery Brothers sold a large number of sheep at very high prices; amongat other lots they secured up to 22s 8d for five trucks of merino…

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The Farmee's Idle Wife

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1913 · page 7

The farmer's wife, in early days, got up at, half-past 2. And shined the plough and milked the cows, and put the prunes to stew,…

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Farm Stock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 August 1913 · page 5

The Government has granted £37,000 this year to assist small landholders to improve the quality of their farm stock…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 August 1913 · page 3

Messrs Griffith and Hassel, Patent Attorneys, of 77 Castlereagh-Street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with the…

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Farmers Busy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1913 · page 4

The unbroken spell of fine weather during the past few weeks, if the few light showers be excepted, has been appreciated by farmers, who, generally speaking, are getting busy…

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Horse Maiming Campaign. Farmers Alarmed, London, Thursday evening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 August 1913 · page 5

Agriculturists in the Black Country are alarmed at the renewal of horse maiming at Wednesbury and Darlaston. A post card received at Wolverhampton…

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Muswellbrook Cattle Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1913 · page 4

Tindale and Company report offering at their special cattle sale on the 19th instant, 200 bullocks, steers, cows, and mixed cattle, to a good attendance of buyers, who competed…

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Sydney Sheep Markets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1913 · page 4

A deputation representing the fat stock agents, and others interested in the meat industry, waited upon Mr. Johnson, the Chief Railway Commissioner, yesterday,…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 August 1913 · page 4

Hill, Clark and Co., Ltd., report:—There is rather a better tone in the market this week, and sales are confined to scoured skin wool, owing to the near approach of the…

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The Bulk Handling of Wheat

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 August 1913 · page 4

The Minister for Lands and Agriculture is satisfied that the bulk handling of wheat for export must be introduced an quickly as circumstances will allow…

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A Violent Farmer

Singleton Argus · Thursday 21 August 1913 · page 2

At the Bega Police Court on Monday, a well-known farmer, Maurice Fenucane, was fined 10/- and costs for refusing to hand over a beast he was taking to…

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Butter v. Margarine

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 2

Mr. M. A. O'Callaghan, Government dairy expert, addressing the dairy science school at the Lismore branch of the North Coast Co-operative Company on…

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Imitation Butter in Canada

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 3

Canada places severe restriction on imitation butter, going so far as to prohibit either the manufacture or importation of margarine and some other butter…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 2

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report under date, 18th Augrnst, 1913 :—Shearing is booming more general each week, and daily arrivals at…

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The Bulk Handling of Wheat

The Scone Advocate · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 2

The Minister for Lands and Agriculture is satisfied that the bulk handling of wheat for export must be introduced us quickly as…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 4

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. 120. LIVE STOCK…

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United States Tariff. the Wool Schedule. Washington. Aug 21

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 5

The crisis in tho fight over the wool schedule of the Tarift Bill is expected to be reached almost immediately. The Democratic success over the sugar…

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Dairying

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 4

An officer of this department who was sent to the valleys of the Hunter and Williams rivers to assist dairy farmers and managers there in the…

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Selection for Durham. Farmers' Decision

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 3

A meeting of the district council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association for the Durham electorate was held at the Paterson on Friday. Mr. Jas. R. Fulton, of…

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Dairy Notes

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 22 August 1913 · page 3

The twenty-sixth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of the Bega Creamery was held on Saturday last. The butter manufactured during the half-yearly…

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