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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

1,713 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 40 of 86

The Commonwealth Farmer Beaten

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 5

"If the English farmer is restricted by his hedgerows and his old-time implements, he can still give lessons in most branches of his calling to his…

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Cessnock Co-operative Dairy Coy

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 3

The engineers are busy installing new machinery at the Cessnock Co-operative Dairy Co's factory. Our reporter walked into the factory the…

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Hints for Dairymen

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 3 July 1914 · page 4

The "Queensland Agricultral Journal," published at the Government Printing Office, is hardly the place one would expect to find…

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Pastoral. "Black Disease" in Sheep

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 9

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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Sydney Sheep Sales. Winners from Singleton District

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 3

The 20th annual show of the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association was opened in Sydney on Wednesday. The sheep penned numbered 952, as…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 2

These notes are issued overy week under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the…

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Child Labour on Dairy Farms. (To the Editor.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 4

Sir.- The Rev. H. S. D. Port us in his reply to my previous letter makes just about the showing others have done ,have been…

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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 Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 105. the Orchard. Farm Manure. As a Supplier of Plant Food

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 6

To what extent can farm or stable manure be used in the orchard in the place of commercial fertilisers? The question is a pertinent extension…

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Dairying. the Cream Chart. Third Edition

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus

The third edition of the very useful work, entitled "Testing Milk and Cream, together with milk and cream charts for dairy factories and farmers,"…

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The Commonwealth Farmer Beaten

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 3

"If the English farmer is restricted by his hedgerows and his old-time implements, he can still give lessons in most branches of his calling to his…

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Fur Farming

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 3

"In other countries all sorts of animals are bred for theor fur; why should not we breed foxes, wild cats, and especially 'possums."—Mr. L[?] Sou[?]f, of…

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Farmers to the Front

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 3

"The farmers are taking a keen interest in the present contest. There are four hundred, brandies of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, all…

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The Orchard. Farm Manure

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 11

To what extent can farm or some manure be used in the orchard in the place of commercial fertilisers? The question is a pertinent extension of…

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Dairying. the Cream Chart

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 11

The third edition of the very useful work entitled, "Testing Milk and Cream, together with and cream charts for dairy factories and farmers," is now available at the…

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The Orange Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 4

In some places the orange crop is light in consequence, of the damaging effects of late frosts last year, but in others the trees are carrying a fine lot of the golden and…

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Girls in Denmark. Daughters of the Farmstead

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 14

Denmark has been the subject of the week (says the "London Daily Telegraph" of May 16). Queen Christine and Queen Alexandrine have come at once to the same positions that…

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Dairying. a North Coast Herd Testing

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 9

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

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Farmers and A.W.U. DEMANDS. Novel Proposal to Government

Singleton Argus · Saturday 4 July 1914 · page 7

The Dairy Farmers Conference, which concluded its deliberations in Sydney on Wednesday, carried a motion, "That in view of the serious trouble likely…

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Fact and Fiction. Wheat and Tares

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 6 July 1914 · page 2

The life of the wayfaring man is by no means all beer and skittles, although Anthony Trollope said that was the case with our Australian species of the genus. The…

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