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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

1,923 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 66 of 97

Important Sheep Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 3

A very important sale of sheep will take place at St. Hellers, near Muswellbrook, on Tuesday next, the 24th instant, at 2.30 p.m. Particulars of the stock to be…

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Gold on Sheep's Teeth

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 2

During this week we were shown iho jaws of a sheep which was killed at Edinglassie recently, the teeth being coated with what appeared to be…

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Sheep Sales at Warwick

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 4

On Monday, 30th instant, 10,000 ewes and wethers will be offered at Warwick (Q.), by Messrs. John Bridge and Co., Ltd., auctioneers, of Brisbane. The sheep…

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New Wheat Land

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture has stated that the time for receiving applications from wheatgrowers, who wished to register the area of new…

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What Does It Mean? Chicago Wheat Market Lower. Chicago, Aug. 13

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 12

The cancellation of a large wheat shipment to Europe is reported. Operations in the wheat pit are lowering prices considerably…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 224. Agricultural. Maize Improvement. Farmers, Grow Your Own Seed

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 6

Many farmers regard any form of plant improvement or plant breeding as the province of purely scientific men, and they fear to intrude because of the…

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Dairying. Lucerne Hay for Milk Production. Some Experiments

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 6

Experiments have been proceeding in connection withthe Ohio experiment station, U.S.A., for the purpose of ascertaining with some degree of exactness…

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Disloyal Sentiments. German Farmer Fined

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 11

At the Albury Police Court last week, before Mr. J. W. Laidlow, P.M., a well-known farmer at Gerogery, named Frederick Heppner, was charged under the War…

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Dairying. Grass Palatability Tests. at Hawkesbury Agricultural College

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 August 1915 · page 9

A report by the agrostologist of the Department of Agriculture gives an account interesting to dairymen of some palatability tests with grasses carried out at…

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Tenterfield Cattle. Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 August 1915 · page 4

Messrs. Bruxner and Cotton will hold a big cattle sale at Tenterfield on Wednesday, 1st September, when they will offer 1500 head of well-bred cattle, comprising…

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The Wool Cup. Annual Review for Past Season

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 23 August 1915 · page 2

We have received a copy of Dalgety's Annual Wool Review for Australasia for the past season, which contains the usual exhaustive summary of everything relating to…

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Sydney Wool market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 August 1915 · page 3

Schute, Bell, and Co., Lid. report under date 23 Aug:—Wool matters are very quite, but there are no adverse developments to record, so that prospects…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 August 1915 · page 1

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

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Food Prices. Bran, Pollard, Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 August 1915 · page 7

A "Government Gazette" was issued yesterday, announcing that the price for bran and pollard had bee fixed as follows:—Millers' prices, wholesale—in the counties of…

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Australian Wool. Interview with New Zealander. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 August 1915 · page 5

Mr. Dunstan Vavasour, of North Canterbury in an interview, said he saw at the Victoria Albert Docks £10,000 worth of Australasian wool, lying in the wet. Some was…

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Co-operative Dairy Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 August 1915 · page 6

At the sixteenth half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the Cessnock. Co-operative Dairy company, Ltd., held recently the directors report stated that, during the period…

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The Wool Clip. Annual Review for Past Season. (By Dalgety and Company, Limited)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 26 August 1915 · page 4

We have received a copy of Dalgety's Annual Wool Review for Australasia for the past season, which contains the usual exhaustive summary of…

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Just a Note From the Bush. Daisy Flat Farm, Guyra. Read Carefully. Mr. J. E. Howland.—

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 August 1915 · page 3

Dear Sir,—In answer to your mome of the 25th November requesting me to give you results of treatment of your Bottles of Pills (Herbos), I wish I had taken them…

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Butter Consignment

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 3

Private intelligence intimates that notwithstanding favorable press reports on the recent shipments of butter that the Government imported…

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Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 August 1915 · page 4

Mr. A. S. Clift, of Gloucester, in conjunction with Mr. J. Skinner, will offer at auction at Wyoming yards, on Thursday next, 300 head of cattle, comprising Durham…

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