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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

1,923 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 73 of 97

Down the Darling. Season's Wool-clip

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 6

A few weeks ago a rainstorm was recorded at Gunndah on the Namoi. The Namoi joins the Barwon, and the united streams form the Darling. The rainstorm was…

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Seasonable Dairy Utensils

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 3
Also in Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser, The Scone Advocate

This being the season when dairy utensils are in much demand, we have pleasure in intimating that we have ample stocks of milk and cream cans in all…

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Dairying. Transformed Sunshine. Products that do not Deplete the Soil

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 6
Also in The Scone Advocate

"To sell butter fat or sugar means, from the standpoint of fertility, to sell transformed sunshine, air and water." So says Bulletin No. 204 of Kansas…

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Lads for Farm Work. Pitt Town Training Farm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 24 September 1915 · page 7
Also in The Scone Advocate

The facilities offered at the Government Agricultural Training Farm, Pitt Town, near Windsor, for training youths for agricultural work are neither so…

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Cattle

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 2

Durhams or Shorthorns.—Bull, 4.tooth, Charles. Picton's Clievedon's Royal, 1. Bull calf, with no permanent teeth, Percy Stacy, 1; Charles Picton, 2. Cow,…

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Sheep

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 3

Coarse-Woolled.—Southdown ram, any age, A. C. Picton, 1. Southdown ram, 4-tooth and under, A. C. Picton, 1. Southdown ram lamb, A. C. Picton, 1…

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Gloucester Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 4

Mr. A. S. Clift will offer at auction at the Gloucester yards on Thursday next, 250 head of stores, springers, dairy heifers, and mixed cattle…

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Applications for Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 2

In the Assembly last week, Mr. Mac Abbott, representative for the Upper Hunter, asked questions as to applications of M. Campbell & Co of…

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Wool Market Prospects

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 2

The wool auctions last week, in Sydney gave welcome indication, of what may be expected in the way of wool prices. We learn from John…

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Wool Trade. Licenses to Export. London, Sept. 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 12

Since the estimate of wool available for export was cabled, the War Office Trade Department has learned that invisible stocks in the west riding of Yorkshire are…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week. under tha pereonal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 229. Agricultural Wheat Breeding. The Technique of "Crossing."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 4

The act of "crossing" two varieties of wheat is regarded by many as a mysterious process requiring considerable skill and experience, but the Plant…

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Dairying. Transformed Sunshine. Products that do not Deplete the Soil

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 4
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

"To sell butter fat or sugar means, from the standpoint of fertility, to sell transformed sunshine, air and water." So says Bulletin No. 204 of Kansas…

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Lads for Farm Work. Pitt Town Training Farm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 5

The facilities offered at the Government Agricultural Training Farm, Pitt Town, near Windsor, for training youths for agricultural work, are neither so…

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Dairying. Pure-bred Buls. the Percentage in Denmark

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 9

Stock-breeders can be divided into three classes, viz., breeders of pure-bred stock, breeders of crossbreds of grade stock, and breeders of nondescript or scrub stock. To…

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Irrigation Farming. Laying Out for Furrow Waterings

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 September 1915 · page 9

The contour plan of land intended for irrgation having been obtained in according with the suggestions made in the article referred to a fortnight ago, the main lines…

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