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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1916

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Dairying. Cool Your Cream. a Word in Season

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 4
Also in Singleton Argus

"Three-fourths of the poor cream that is coming, on to the market to-day is caused by carelessness, in cooling." The statement was made by an…

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Dairying. Cool Your Cream

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 12

"Three-fourths of the poor cream that is coming on to the market to-day is caused by carelessness in cooling." The statement was made by on American…

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Soil Fertility. a Farmer's Methods

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 12

"Every farmer must study the requirements of every variety of soil with which he is dealing, in order to apply those fertilisers which are required. In my experience and…

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Closer Settlement. Estates to Be Acquired by Government to Provide Farms for Returned Soldiers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 11

In furtherance of the policy of the Government of providing lands for returned soldiers, the Minister for Lands recently go into communication with the owners of…

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Soil Fertility. a Farmers' Methods

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 3

"Every farmer must study the requirements of every variety of soil with which he is dealing, in order to apply those fertilisers which are…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land. These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister or Agriculture, and are based mainly on No. 282. Agricultural Sowing Maize. Thick and Thin Seeding Questions

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1916 · page 4

It is so customary to think of thick and thin seeding questions as expressed in the width of the rows apart and the distance between each plant in the rows,…

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Butter Producers. Effect of Official Actions. Freer Trade Wanted

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 2

In protest against the restrictions imposed upon the exportation of butter and the fixation of prices, Mr Massey Greene, Federal Member for…

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Farming Inventions

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 October 1916 · page 4

M[?] Griffith and Hassel, Patent At. teneys, of 77 Castlereagh-street, Sydney, report that the following applications for patents connected with the…

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Store Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 October 1916 · page 2

Attention is directed to the advertisment of important cattle sale to be held at Scone yards by Messrs J. A. Simpson & Co, on Friday, 13th…

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Local and General News. Muswellbrook Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1916 · page 4

At Muswellbrool, on the 10th instant, Mr. Percy Ross will yard 350 head of mixed cattle…

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The Wheat Pool. Deputation to Minister

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1916 · page 7

The first conference of rural producers at which every State in the Commonwealth was represented waited on Senator Russell (representative) of the Federal Ministry on the…

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Butter for Export. An Embargo Lifted

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 October 1916 · page 2

As the result of a request submitted to the Acting Minister for Customs by the Victorian butter advisery committee on Monday, the authorities have…

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Wheat in Bulk. Successful Experiment

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 October 1916 · page 3

The first truckload of wheat loaded in balk in Australia was received at the Darling Island inwards station yesterday. It came from Messrs. Webster Bros., at Ariah Park…

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A Farmers' Party. Federal Organisation

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 October 1916 · page 4

A conference of delegates at Melbourne, representing the farmers' associations of all the States with the exception of Tasmania, on Saturday…

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Farmers' Federation. Objects of Organisation

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 October 1916 · page 2

The establishment of co-ordination between the farmers' organisations in the various States, as decided upon at the conference just held in Melbourne,…

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Australian Wheat Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 October 1916 · page 5

The "Times" is giving prominence to an authoritative communication from Sydney advocating that the British Government should purchase the Australian wheat crop…

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South America. German Businesses Attacked. Argentine Wheat Crop. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 October 1916 · page 5

Canadian unancters are attacking German business strongholds in South American. The Royal Bank of Canada has already opened several branches in Venezuela, and…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. the Man on the Land

The Scone Advocate · Friday 6 October 1916 · page 4

Those Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. C. Grahame, M.L.A., Minister or Agriculture, and are bused mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 283…

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Dairy and Lucerne Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 October 1916 · page 4

On the 25th instant, at Fogarty's Hotel, Quirindi, at 3 p.m. sharp, Messrs. Moore Bros. and Shape and Co., of Quirindi, and Mr. W. A. Ross, of West Maitland, auctioneers in…

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