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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1917

1,572 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 14 of 79

Selecting a Site for Poultry Farm

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1917 · page 4

The following points in selecting a site for a projected poultry farm are recommended :— 1. A northerly or north-casterly…

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Dairying. the Milking Machine. Its Relation to Cream Quality

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1917 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

As a factor in the production of cream of inferior quality, the milking machine has a place that is undeniable and not easily disturbed…

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Selection of Seed Maize. Watch Growing Crops

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1917 · page 4
Also in The Scone Advocate

The maize-grower who would increase the yield of his crop next year should not forget the opportunities that the next few weeks will afford him of…

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Queensland Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 4

Messrs. McPhie and Co. will offer at auction at Toowoomba (Q.), on Tuesday next, 1000 mixed cattle; at Crow's Nest, on Wednesday, 700 mixed cattle; at Pittsworth, on Thursday, 600…

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Gloucester Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 4

Messrs. Abbott & Co, will offer at Gloucester on Tuesday next 450 head of store bullocks (Devons and Durhams), and 250 mixed cattle…

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Glen Innes Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 4

A special cattle sale will be held at Glen Innes on Thursday next by Messrs. Grainger and Falkiner, Ltd., of Singleton, and Mr. E. A. Small, of Glen Innes, in conjunction, when 1500…

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Uralla Special Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 4

Mr. Robert Evans, of Uralla, and Mr. W. H. Wheatley, of Goulburn, in conjunction, will hold a special cattle sale at Uralla show ground yards on Tuesday, March 6, when 1000 head of…

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Commercial. Colonial Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 8

Winchcombe, Carson Ltd., writes:—"Advices have come to hand stating that English wools have not proved altogether…

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Darling Downs Wheat. Pool Asked For

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 3

A deputation of Darling Downs farmers waited on Mr. London, Minister for Agriculture, Queensland, yesterday, and asked the Government to establish a wheat pool so that…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 2

These 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…

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Agricultural. Varieties of Wheat. Changes in Departmental Recommendations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 9

The recommendations of the Department of Agriculture as to the varieties of wheat and other cereals to be used in New South Wales during the ensuing season appeared in…

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Australian Wool Clip. British Action. London, Thursday night

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 14

In the House of Commons to-day, replying to Mr. Sherwell (Liberal), Mr. Forster, Financial Secretary to the War Office, said the Australian wool clip had not been…

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Dairying. the Milking Machine. Its Relation to Cream Quality

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 4
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

As a factor in the production of cream of inferior quality, the milking machine has a place that is undeniable and not easily disturbed…

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Selection of Seed Maize. Watch Growing Crops

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 4
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury, Singleton Argus

The maize-grower who would increase the yield of his crop next year should not forget the opportunities that the next few weeks will afford him of…

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Dairying, Inferior Quality Cream

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 February 1917 · page 9

In the plainest language and with a great deal of force, the Dairy Expert in the "Agricultural Gazette" tells dairy farmers that three-quarters of the inferior…

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