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North West (Tamworth to Moree) · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Farm and Field. The Best Potatoes

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 16 November 1907 · page 7

The questions is often asked which is the best potato to grow, and it is one that is difficult to answer. Of the hundreds of new varieties (or new names…

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A New Wheat. Remarkable Discovery

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 19 November 1907 · page 7

A discovery that may ultimately revolutionise farming is announced by a group of Cambridge scientists. Very careful experiments have been made…

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The Dairy. Improving the Dairy Herd

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 19 November 1907 · page 3

After having the herd started, it is well to place at its head. If not a purebred dairy bull, at least one whose form and breeding have a predominating…

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Farm and Field. Water In Soil

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 19 November 1907 · page 3

Professor von Sellhorst in Gottingen has published in a German agricultural paper some Interesting observations of the relative evaporation and drainage of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Wednesday 20 November 1907 · page 4

The Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Co,, Ltd., report:— Owing to Monday being a holiday, sales were held on three days this week…

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New Variety of Wheat

Manilla Express · Wednesday 20 November 1907 · page 2

IT is explained by the Director of Agriculture that new varieties [?] wheat produced by the [?] Farrer, wheat ex[?]…

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London Wool Sales

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 5

A CABLE message has been received by Dalgety and Company Limited from their London house under date of 18th instant notifying that the list of…

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Bot Fly in Sheep's Head

Quirindi Herald and District News · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 5

A MESSAGE from Wellington reads: "A man in the employ of Mr. T. Quirk, Gla[?]istone, killed [?] sheep, and after dressing it split its head in two to throw…

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The Dairy Inflammation of the Udder

The Moree News · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 3

[?]OGNITION AND TREATMENT. [?] trouble in the [?] may be [?] under two [?]…

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Farm and Field. Commercial Cultures

The Moree News · Friday 22 November 1907 · page 3

A few [?] age [?] interest was [?] to the advice of [?] which had been [?] and…

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Wool Market

Manilla Express · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 5

HARRISON, Jones and Devlin, Limited, submitted at auction on Wednesday a catalogue of 4073 bales which comprised some very attractive wools with a rather…

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This Season's Wheat

Manilla Express · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 4

A FEW small parcels of new season's wheat have arrived at the local flour mills. Mr. Oram says the sample is a very good one, in fact,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 5

Schute Bell and Co., Wool and Produce Brokers, Sydney, report under date 19th November :— Yesterdays sales reflected to an…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles [All Rights Reserved.] Hardy Perennials

Manilla Express · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 6

The best of all plants for the flower garden are hardy perennials. The majority of them are very easy to grow, and possess the additional and…

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Farm and Field. Commercial Cultures

Moree Gwydir Examiner and General Advertiser · Saturday 23 November 1907 · page 7

A few years ago considerable interest was created by the advent of cultures of nitrogen-fixing bacteria, which had been so much boomed in America, and…

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The Wheat Crops

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 26 November 1907 · page 4

MR. John Perry arrived in town this morning from his now home -- "The Wilgas," Brueza. Mr. Perry states that some of the farmers from Breeza…

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Dutch Belted Cattle

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 26 November 1907 · page 3

The picturesque Dutch Belted cow spreads very slowly from her home in the Netherlands. In Australia she is a stranger, but with so pronounced a run…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Wool Sales

The Moree News · Tuesday 26 November 1907 · page 2

Yesterday's Sydney wool sales were the worst this season, half the [?] being passed in. Prices were distiue[?] lower…

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Waterworks on the Farm

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 26 November 1907 · page 3

A new system of furnishing a house with its water supply, as shown in the accompanying illustration, [?]s thus described in a circular issued by the…

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The Dairy. Successful Milkers Must Practice Kindness

Quirindi Herald and District News · Tuesday 26 November 1907 · page 3

Every milker thinks he knows how to milk (writes Mrs Anna Sorensen in the " Michigan Farmer") but if the cows could express their…

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