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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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Farmers' Prosperity on the Clarence

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 June 1914 · page 4

Up-to-date farmers on the Lower Clarence have experienced six years of previously unequalled prosperity (says Saturday's "Clarence and Richmond Examiner.") The…

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N.S.W. Live stock. a Decrease in Cattle and Swine

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1914 · page 2

The N.S.W. Government Statistician, Mr. J. B. Trivett, has issued the agricultural, pastoral and dairying statistics of the State for…

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Land for Settlement. Homestead Farms

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1914 · page 3

Taree land district, about 1100 acres in 4 blocks, A and B of 300 and 200 acres, respectively, and C and D of 300 acres each, Parish of…

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The Orange Crop. Short Supplies and High Prices Predicted

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 23 June 1914 · page 3

The second crop of oranges in the Pennant Hills district, N. S. W., is now being gathered, and is being despatched overland to Melbourne…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 June 1914 · page 1

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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Children on Dairy Farms. (To the Editor.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 June 1914 · page 3

The Rev. H. S. D. Portus, as reported widely in your own and other journals, in the recent Synod of the Newcastle Diocese, in referring to the child labour on the…

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Sale of Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 June 1914 · page 4

In this issue Mr. E. W. Sparke announces that on Friday next at 2 o'clock he will offer at his rooms, Pastoral-chambers, High-street, three agricultural and dairy farms…

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Wheat Speculator Fails. Liabilities Said to be £6000

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 June 1914 · page 3

The wheat speculative business has provided many a sensation. Two years ago a country miller failed to meet his obligations to the extent of £18,000, and…

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Homestead Farms. Minister's Proposals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1914 · page 3

Mr. Trefie, the Minister of Lands, has under consideration the provision in the Crown Lands Act under which the holder of a homestead farm may, in lieu, of paying rent for…

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Dairying Progress

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 June 1914 · page 4

It is gratifying to find that systematic herdtesting is being energetically and widely taken up in our North Coast dairying districts. Considering what this means to the…

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Pastoral. "Black Disease" in Sheep. An Invitation

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 2

The veterinary officers of the Department of Agriculture have lately been investigating a few cases of "black disease" in sheep which have…

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Pastoral "Black Disease" in Sheep. An Invitation

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 4

The veterinary officers of the Department of Agrionlture have lately been investigating a few cases of "black disease" in sheep which have…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 2
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser

Those 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. 164…

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Dairying. a North Coast Heed. What the Test Revealed

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 4

Valuable testimony on the subject of herd-testing is given by Mr. J. T. Young, of Bangalow, the owner of the herd that won first prize in the Tweed…

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Dairying. a North Coast Herd. What the Test Revealed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 June 1914 · page 2

Valuable testimony on the subject of herd-testing is given by Mr. J. T. Young, of Bangalow, the owner of the herd that won first prize in the Tweed…

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Pastoral. "Black Disease" in Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 12

The veterinary officers of the Department of Agriculture have lately been investigating a few cases of "black disease" in sheep which have been reported from the Monaro…

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PASTORAL. "Black Disease" in Sheep. an Invitation

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 2
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The veterinary officers of the Department of Agriculture have lately been investigating a few cases of "black disease" in sheep which have…

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Rust in Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 June 1914 · page 9

A North-west farmer recently wrote to the Department as follows:—"Last harvest I had a crop of Federation wheat slightly rusted. From that crop I…

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