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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

1,923 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 63 of 97

Clearing Sale of Dairy Herd

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1915 · page 4

Messrs. Tindale and Co., with Messrs. Weaver and Perry, will conduct a clearing-out sale at King's dairy. Sandy Creek, near Muswellbrook, on Saturday, 28th instant,…

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Irrigation Farming. the Choice of Site and Soil

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 August 1915 · page 9

Indicating the considerations that should govern the choice of site and soil for irrigation farming, the inspector organising the Agricultural Bureau classifies them under…

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AGRICULTURAL. Irrigation Farming. Grades and Levels of the Land

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 August 1915 · page 8

Continuing our review of the article on the above subject by the Inspector organising the Agricultural Bureau, we note, as one of the chief points to be…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are Issued every week, under tlio personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grnhamc, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are bused mainly on the experience of the Depnrtment. No. 222. Live Stock. the Mule. His Special Qualities

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 August 1915 · page 6

The importation by the Department of Agriculture of several donkeys of both sexes with a view to using them for the breeding of mules, is the opportunity…

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Export of Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 August 1915 · page 5

"Meat that two years ago was 2d or 3d per lb. could not at present be sold under 9d." This was the statement made by Mr. C. Mallett, a master butcher, at the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 10 August 1915 · page 1

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report under date, 4th August: —The concluding auction sales of the season were held last…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 10 August 1915 · page 1

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

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Pitt Town Farm Home. Opportunities for Women

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 August 1915 · page 7

The supply of the young British immigrants of the class known as Dreadnought boys, has fallen off since the war began, and the inmates of the Pitt Town Farm…

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Special Sheep and Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1915 · page 4

A special sheep and cattle sale will be conducted at the Scone yard's on Friday, 20th instant, by Messrs. J. A. Simpson and Co., who will offer at auction 20 fat and forward…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1915 · page 4

The seventeenth half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Factory, Limited, will be held in the School of Arts, Morpeth, on…

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Cattle Sale at Toowoomba

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1915 · page 4

Messrs. McPhie and Co., auctioneers, will offer at Toowoomba, on Wednesday next, 2500 cattle, comprising Shorthorn heifers and steers, dairy cows, etc. Particulars are…

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Liberals and Farmers. a Farmers' Union Advocated

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1915 · page 2

It is seriously proposed by these bodies—the one purely political, and the other, partly political and partly industrial, to confer and possibly combine. Someone has…

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Dairy School at Dungog

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1915 · page 4

Mr. Grahame, Minister for Agriculture, has approved of a cream grading and testing school being held at Dungog Co-operative Butter Factory, commencing on the 6th…

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German Crops. Berlin

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 August 1915 · page 5

A wireless message states that good crops will soon permit an increase in the bread distribution, and a decrease in prices…

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Warwick Farm a Camp. Two Thousand Recruits Provided For

Singleton Argus · Thursday 12 August 1915 · page 1

The military authorities have decided to make provision for a, number of additional recruits—two thousand—at Warwick Farm racecourse. Quantities…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 August 1915 · page 6

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report:—Though no wool auctions are being held on the Sydney market, sales by private treaty…

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Butter Boxes. Trial of Dorrigo Pine

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1915 · page 8

Experiments made with pine grown on the Dorrigo plateau for the manufacture of butter boxes show that there are great…

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Roumanian Wheat. Held Up by Germany

The Scone Advocate · Friday 13 August 1915 · page 2

A financial catastrophe appears to be threatening Roumania, owing to the accumulation of wheat worth £50,000,000. The growers are pressing for…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 August 1915 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

These Notes are Issued every week. under the personal superstesion of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. NO. 223…

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