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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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Farmers in the Making. Training Immigrants

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 7

Recently Mr F. Brennan Director of the Labor Bureau, was commissioned to report upon the operations of the Government Agricultural Training Farm…

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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 [?]. J. L. [?], Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. No. 140. Agricultural. Wheaten Chaff. Factors that Influence Quality

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 February 1914 · page 6

Many factors enter into the production of chaff, and the farmer who would earn the reputation for the well-grown and well-made article that commands…

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Sheep Guessing Competition

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 2

The sheep exhibited at the showground ou Saturday in connection with the guessing competition was killed aiid dressed yesterday afternoon. The…

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Dairymen and the Regulations

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 3

Paragraph 5, page 33 of "Dairy Manual," issued by the Board of Health points out the importance of dairymen exhibiting in a…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 February 1914 · page 1

Messrs Griffith and Hassel, patent attorneys of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patent connected with…

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Sydney Wool and Produoe Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 1

FOR week ending February 21, 191-1: Wool —Since the close of the public anctions there has been a good demand privately, and a fair amount of…

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Modern Dairying

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 2

The drudgery which at one time was associated with dairying is rapidly becoming a thing of the past. Just as machinery in many other instances…

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German Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 February 1914 · page 1

According to advices received b the Minister for External Affairs (Mr. Glynn), there are a great many of the settlers in the agricultural areas of…

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Gloucester Butter Factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 9

The half-yearly report of the above ito Dec. 31st., shows that during the half year 192,455lb. of butter were manufactured from 407,953lb…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 8

A.M.L. and Finance Co., Ltd., [?] report.— Since the close of the sales business has been confined to the [?] by private treaty of passed in…

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Local and General. Bowthorne Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 4

The fourteenth half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Limited, will be held in the School of Arts. Morpeth, to-morrow…

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War Canoe As Wool Carrier

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 4
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

'Times change and we with time" might be writ as a motto on what is surely one of the remarkable vessels of the world, and once the doughty…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 4
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 147…

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Besieging a Murderer. Farmer at Bay. New York, Jan. 16

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 3

In Mayvill, New York State, Edward Beardsley, who shot an overseer of the poor, is being besieged by the Sheriff and a small army of assistants. Beardsley has…

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Winter Fodder Crops. For Coastal Districts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 February 1914 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

The sowing of winter fodder crops should engage the thoughts and time of farmers on the Coast within the next fow weeks. Better results, and more…

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Sow Rape Soon. Points for Wheat and Sheep Farmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 14

With the approach of the end of summer it seems appropriate to offer a reminder on the subject of rape. We have touched it several times in these "Notes," dwelling…

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War Canoe As Wool Carrier

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 6

'Times change and we with time" might be writ as a motto on what is surely one of the remarkable vessels of the world, and once the doughty…

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