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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 6

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…

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Wool Market Report. Winchcombe, Carson Ltd. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 2

A very keen enquiry continues for all descriptions of woool. Now that the weekly series have closed, operations have been confined to dealing by…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Turf. Agricultural. Wheaten Chaff. How to Ensure High Prices

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 2

Continuing his suggestions on the production of chaff that will command high prices in the market, the manager of Coonamble demonstration farm…

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Winter Fodder Crops. For Coastal Districts

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 6
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury, Singleton Argus

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

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British Farmer. Opposition Policy. London, Friday night

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 28 February 1914 · page 5

Mr. A. Bonar Law, Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, replying to a deputation of farmers, stated that some means must be found tp place farm…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory. Half-yearly Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 March 1914 · page 3

The fourteenth half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Limited, was held in the School of Arts, Morpeth, on Saturday…

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The Weather and the Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 March 1914 · page 4

"We've got the rain, and have no grleyances," This reply to a query by the Chairman at the Bowthorne Butter Factory meeting on Saturday as to whether any of…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 March 1914 · page 1

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

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Heavy Potato Crops

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 March 1914 · page 2

Telegraphic advices from Orange, state that the main potato crop will be ready in about a month's time, and there is every indication of it…

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Rural Strikers. Attack a Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 March 1914 · page 8

At the end of last week about 40 members of the Rural Workers' Union organised a raid on Corney's chaff-cutter at Marrar[?] near Wagga…

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Pastoral. the Sheep Maggot Fly. And Its Parasite

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

A report furnished by the Government Entomologist, as supervisor of the experiment station which has [?] established at Brewarinna for [?]…

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Stroud Butter factory

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 2

The 25th half-yearly meeting of the Gloucester District Co-op. Butter Factory was held at Stroud on Friday last. Mr C. H. Lowe…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 8

Schute, Bell, and Co., Ltd., report, 2nd March.—Cable advices lead us to anticipate quite as firm a market when the March series…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 March 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 for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 148…

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Winter Fodder Crops

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 4

The sowing of winter fodder crops should engage the thoughts and time of farmers on the coast within the next two weeks…

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Modern Dairying

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 March 1914 · page 6

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

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