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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

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The Wool Trade

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 October 1914 · page 2

THERE is a serious difference of opinion among the influential firms which conduct the wool trade of Sydney. At the outbreak of the war, owing to the absence…

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Improving the Quality of Butter

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1914 · page 3

The most important question before dairymen to-day is how to improve the quality of butter, and amongst the suggestions claiming to have practical value…

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Export of Butter. New South Wales' Prospects

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 October 1914 · page 5

A deputation from the co-operative dairy produce distributing companies, consisting of Messrs. S. W. Osborne, L. Lowsby, and C. C. Lewis, of Melbourne; and Mr. C. E. D…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Satisfactory Prices

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 October 1914 · page 1

"STANDING room only" was the rule, and even then the available space was inadequate for accommodating all the prominent people…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1914 · page 4

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. A[?]ford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 181…

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The Dairying Industry

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1914 · page 4

The dairy fanners on the South Coast seem, by all accounts, to be a live body of men (says the Campbelltown "Herald.") After years…

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Dairying. Sour Skimmilk. As Food for Calves

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 23 October 1914 · page 4

Experiments carried out by the United States Department of Agriculture, indicate that in summer calves make as rapid gains on sour skimmilk…

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Royal Dairy Show. Singleton Butter to the Fore

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 3

London, Wednesday.—At the Royal Dairy Show no South Australian or Queensland butters arrived for exhibition, but there were 18 Victorian and…

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Mummy Wheat. Old Farce Exploded

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 5

"Professor Flinders Petrie has completely ruined one of the most interesting and well-worked of all our pulpit illustrations," says the Expository Times. "In the second part…

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Wheat'ships Captured. Athens

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 12

The Russian fleet captured two steamers bound for Galaiz and Constanza, with car goes of cereals…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Satisfactory Prices

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 6

"Standing room only" was the rule, and even then the available space was inadequate for accommodating all the prominent people connected with the wool industry who…

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Wheat Ships Arrive. London. Oct. 22

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 5

The barque Miefield, which left Port Lincoin on May 11 with 26, 206 bushels of wheat and the barque Pinmore, which left Port Victoria on June 3 with 44,043 bushels of…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus

These Notes we issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. A[?]ford, Minister for Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 181…

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Prices of Wheat and Flour. Revised by Commission

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 14

The second report of the Necessary Commodities Commission was presented to the Governor on Friday. The Commission' makes some important alterations in prices…

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Dairying. Sour Skimmilk. As Food for Calves

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 6
Also in Singleton Argus

Experiments carried out by the United States Department of Agriculture, indicate that in summer calves make as rapid gains on sour skimmilk…

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Dairy Industry

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 2

At a meeting of delegates representing the dairying industry, convened by the Singleton Central Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd., the following districts ware represented…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 4

A meeting of the Bolwarra branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association will be held at the residence of Mr. John Hart, on Monday evening next, at 8 o'clock, for the…

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Dairying. the Colouring of Margarine

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 October 1914 · page 9

"The Margarine-Butter conflict in Australia narrows Itself down to a [?]our. Margarine makers claim that they should be allowed to preset that sub…

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