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Farming & the land, 1915

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the [?] C. Grahame. M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on [?]rience of the Department. No. 218…

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Dairy Science School. An Altered Date

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 4

The date of the Dairy Science School, which is to be held at Byron Bay during the winter, has been altered to the 9th August. It has been found that…

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Dairying. Foundations of Success. a Half Sheet of Notepaper

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 4

The specialists in charge of various departments in the College of Agriculture at the University of California, U.S.A., were asked recently to boil down…

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Just a Note from the Bush. Read Carefully. Daisy Flat Farm, Guyra

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 9 July 1915 · page 9
Also in The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder

Mr J. E. Howland,—Dear Sir,—In answer to your memo of the 25th Nov., requesting me to give you results of…

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Butter Famine

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 7

The present great dearth of butter will be relieved by a Government shipment of 10,000 boxes, which is due to arrive in Sydney next week. A private consignment will arrive by…

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Memorandum Re Agricultural, Pastoral, Dairying,' and Manufacturing Returns

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 4

During July the Police Officers throughout the State will be engaged in collecting the annual returns relating to Agricultural, Pastoral, Dairying…

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Agricultural. Thistles in Wheat Crop. Feed Off or Now

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 12

"In a wheat paddock recently sown, the wheat being now about six Inches high thistles are coming up thick. What Should I do? It is too late to plough and re-sow…

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Agricultural. Feeding Off Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 9

[?], who had about 600 acres of wheat in one block, but planted at different times, asked the department lately whether he should feed it off, and if so how he…

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£2000 From Wool-selling Brokers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 5

On July 30 the Australia Day movement, which has now spread to the most remote parts of the State, will culminate in one huge patriotic offering from, the people of…

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Importation of Butter. Regular Supplies Coming to Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 5

The Attorney-General (Mr. Hall), in the course of an interview on Wednesday, said that he was importing a large quantity of butter, the first shipment…

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Dairying. Foundations of Success. a Half Sheet of Notepaper

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 July 1915 · page 12

The specialists in charge of various departments in the College of Agriculture at the University of "California, U.S.A., were asked recently to boil down to a single page…

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Imported Butter. What It Is Costing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 July 1915 · page 3

A statement that there is to arirve by the Calusa from San Francisco, due about Wednesday, a consignment of 10,000 boxes of butter, is officially denied, "Sussex-street…

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Muswellbrook Letter. the Late Mr. Patrick Mullins. a Successful Sheep Breeder. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 July 1915 · page 3

Mr. Patrick Mullins, the widely-known sheep-breeder, died at his residence, Petwyn Vale, Wingen, on Tuesday night last. He had suffered from asthma for some years…

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Farmers and Settlers' Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 July 1915 · page 5

The annual conference of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was opened in Sydney to-day. Over 300 delegates were present. The secretary (Mr. Campbell)…

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Farmers and Settlers' Conference. Wheat Price Appeals. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 July 1915 · page 2

Three hundred and nine delegates from the Farmers and Se?lers' Associa tion a?ended the conference this morning. This number is a slight decrease…

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News by Wire. Farmers' Conference. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 July 1915 · page 5

At the Farmers and Settlers' Conference to-day the president gave his casting vote in favour of a resolution that women's branches of the association be formed…

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Just a Note From the Bush. Read Carefully. Daisy Flat Farm, Guyra

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 July 1915 · page 2

Mr. J. E. Howland,— Dear Sir,—In answer to your memo, of the 25th November, requesting me to give you results of treatment of your Bottles of…

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Dairymen and Patriotic Funds

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 July 1915 · page 2

At a large meeting of the Tweed Dairymen's Union, the motion agreeing not to contribute or subscribe, to patrio tie funds, owing to the Necessary…

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Farmers' Conference. Uniting the Forces. Drafting a Progressive Policy. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 July 1915 · page 5

No fewer than nine district centres, representing practically the whole of the State submitted propositions to the Farmers and Sottlers' Conference in favour of a…

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