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Farming & the land, 1908

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Farms in a Rich District

Guyra Argus · Thursday 23 January 1908 · page 6

Ben Lomond, a noted estate in the heart of New England, has reached the end of its days as a pastoral property. Recently, the place changed…

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Important cattle Sale

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 4

SATURDAY, February 8th next, is the date fixed for the sale by public auction, at the station yards, Tenterfield, of the bulk of the noted Tonterfield Station herd, comprising…

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London Wool Sales. London, Wednesday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 4

AT the London wool sales, yesterday, there was keen competition at full opening rates…

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[?]He Perfect Dairy Cow. Scale of Points for Judging a Dairy Cow, Regardless of Breeds

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 4

In the accompanying illustration are indicated the parts of the cow taken into consideration in judging her merits as a dairy animal…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles. (All Rights Reserved). Probable Small Holdings

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 2

A small holding may be of the best of soils and situation, nearness to market and rent mar alike leave little to be desired, and yet fail to bring in a…

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Farms at Ben Lomond

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 24 January 1908 · page 6

BEN LOMOED, a noted estate in the heart of New England, has reached the end of its days as a pastoral property. Recently, the place changed hands, and the purchasers…

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Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 4

The wool sales in Sydney improved yesterday. All classes met with a better competition, comparing favorably witk December closing rates…

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COMMERCIAL. The Wool Market

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 25 January 1908 · page 7

Mesers. Schute, Bell, and Co., wool and produce brokers, Sydney, report under date 21st inst.:—By the time this report is printed, the wool sales will have re-opened,…

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Tenterfield Butter Factory. Half-yearly Meeting

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Monday 27 January 1908 · page 3

THE half-yearly meeting of the Tenter field Co operative Butter Factory Company was held at the Secretary's office on Saturday afternoon, when there were…

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Shortage in Wool and Wheat. Sydney

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 4

The wheat received at Darling Island to date shows a falling off of 586,417 bags, as compared with the corresponding period of last year…

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Wool

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 2

The resumption of the wool sales was awaited with some interest. There had been an unprecedentedly long recess, as it was held that it…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 4

THE A., M., L., and E., Co., Ltd., report, under date 22nd lostant:—Sales in the local market were resumed this week after an interval of slightly over a month, during which period cable…

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Fixing the Price of Cattle

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 2

Representatives of most of the Queensland Meat Works held, it is understood, several meetings in Sydney last week to consider what attitude…

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Wool Market. Schute, Bell. & Co's. Ltd. Report

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 2

By the time this report is printed the wool sales will have re-opened, and in all probability a basis for transactions during the remaining portion of the season will have…

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Dairying. Cost of Cows

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 1

IN considering the cost of keeping a cow, farmers often overlook the vital point in the question. It is not so much the cost of the feed that the cow consumes, but rather the…

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Farming. Mulching Fruit Trees

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 28 January 1908 · page 1

THE following article, by a writer who has studied how to grow fruit with profit on rough land, may be read with interest by all who have rocky, hilly places on their…

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Farm and Pastoral Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 7

Australasia's mammoth cattle herd is that running on the Victorian River station, Northern Territory, 320 miles south of Port Darwin (says…

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COMMERCIAL. Magnificent Dairyings Lands

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 29 January 1908 · page 6

The catting up of the magnificent Bea Lomond Lands, on the furtile New England cableland— a district that has never known a drough[?]t—offers a splendid opportunity…

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Salting Butter

Guyra Argus · Thursday 30 January 1908 · page 7

The following suggestions in the salting of butter have been issued by the Iowa Dairymen's Association, U.S.A.:—No established rule for salting butter…

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The Dairy. Method of Butter-making

Guyra Argus · Thursday 30 January 1908 · page 7

In bulletin No. 13, issued by the Dairy Division of the Ontario Department of Agriculture are given the results of experiments to…

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