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New England · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1915

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Agricultural Notes. DAIRYING. [?]ERD-TESTlNG on the Northern Rivers. the Tweed River Competition

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 28 January 1915 · page 10

Thanks to the establishment of herd-testing association on the Tweed and Richmond Rivers, it looks as though some educational work of…

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Wheat

The Inverell Times · Friday 29 January 1915 · page 4

Farmers are still in a quandary about their wheat. One man brought in two samples the other day, but was told at the mill that the best sample…

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Sheep Guessing Competition

The Inverell Times · Friday 29 January 1915 · page 4

The sheep-guessing competition to sheep presents by Mr. [?] W. Farrell, resulted in three people guessing [?] wright, [?] Mrs…

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The Wheat Case

The Inverell Times · Friday 29 January 1915 · page 4

The acting Prime Minister is of opinion that whatever is the decision of the Inter-State Wheat Commission on the case cited by the Commonwealth…

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Commercial. Keen Wool Inquiry

The Inverell Times · Friday 29 January 1915 · page 7

The keen competition experienced at last week's Sydney wool auctions showed no sign of casing at the opening tales this week. Winchombe,…

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Dear Butter

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 January 1915 · page 3

The housewife is now paying 2d, or possibly 2[?]d per lb more for butter than the normal price in midsummer, and not altogether Unnaturally asks…

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The Wheat Seizure

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 30 January 1915 · page 4

A a meeting of the Wagga branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association recently, Mr. Dobbs contended that if they did not wake up and…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1915 · page 2

Wool sales were held on Monday at Sydney, when the quantity catalogued totalled 7083 bales, and the sales, including private transactions, totalled…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Uralla Times and District Advocate · Saturday 30 January 1915 · page 4

Wool auction sales were held in Sydney during fast week, under very favorable conditions. The market all round showed a distinct improvement,…

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Supplies of Prime Sheep

Glen Innes Examiner · Monday 1 February 1915 · page 4

The improved pastoral conditions in N.S. Wales continue to be demonstrated by sheep arriving for sale at Homebush Offerings at the…

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Cattle Sale

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 4

Messrs. Farrand and Sons will hold a big cattle sale at the local Municipal Yards on Thursday, 4th February, commencing at 2 p.m., when 400 head will…

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The Wool Market

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 5

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., report under date, 27th January:— At auction to-day we brought forward a good catalogue of fine merino…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Local Butcher Charged

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 4

At the Police Court yesterday morning, before Mr. W. Le Brun Brown, P.M., Richard Roberts was charged with that he did, at Inverell, on 12th…

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Agricultural Bureau. Testing of Dairy Herds

The Inverell Times · Tuesday 2 February 1915 · page 7

A paper was read at the meeting of the Inverell Agricultural Bureau on Friday night last by Mr. A. E. Sweaney on "Testing Dairy Herds."…

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Farm and Pastoral Notes. Milk Fever

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1915 · page 4

The peculiar feature of milk fever is that it invariably attacas the very best cows, and those that are in the best of condition and prime of life…

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Commercial. the Wool Market

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1915 · page 8

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report under date February 1st:—Our catalogue on Thursday last included a number of specially-attractive lines,…

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Special Cattle Sale

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 6

On Thursday and Friday, Feb. 18 and 19, at Bellingen (North Coast), H. W. Kirkland & Co. and F. R. H. Baker (in conjunction) will submit to…

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Wool Sales

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 6

The A.M.L. & F. Co. Ltd. report under date Feb. 1, as follows:-- For our weekly sale we to-day submitted a catalogue of 1920 bales, and…

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Good Price Dor Deepwater Wool

Glen Innes Examiner · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 6

Mr. Wm. F. Davidson's "Ro[?]dalo" dip from Deepwater attracted very [?] competition from Yorkshire buyers at [?] omba, Carson's wool…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Land

Guyra Argus · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 4

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. W. G. Ashford, Minister for Agriculture, N.S.W., and are based mainly on the experience of the Department. No. 196…

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