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Farming & the land, 1873

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 23 October 1873 · page 4

The third series of the sales for the present year opened on 10th July, and closed on the 13th August. The Wool Importers' Committee have fixed…

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Agitation Amongst the Farmers Op the United States

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 6 November 1873 · page 2

An American correspondent of the Pall Mail Gazette gives the following account of the movement that is taking place in the Western States in opposition to the moneyed oligarchy of the East…

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The Dairy-poisoning Controversy

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 13 November 1873 · page 3

The Melbourne Argus gives the following summary of a controversy which has lately been carried on in the London Times:— The outbreak of typhoid fever in Mayfair[?]…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 20 November 1873 · page 2

The results of the August wool sales were satisfactory. Sydney wool, marked FAX in diamond, fetched 4s per lb., and other bales sold from 3s 3d to 3s 11½d…

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The Soth Australian Wheat Crops. (From the Adelaide Observer, Nov. 8.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 22 November 1873 · page 3

The information that has recently been published in reference to the wheat crops cannot fail to have a re[?]suring effect upon the community. The prospect of a total failure, which less than a fortnight ago was…

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FARMERS. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 27 November 1873 · page 4

SIR,—Will you kindly insert the following for the benefit of our farmers in the district of the Hunter River. Why don't the farmers get up a petition and…

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The English News. By Direct Telegrams. (Reuter's telegram to Australian Associated Press, in S.M. Herald.) the Wool Sales. London, November 27

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 4 December 1873 · page 2

The London wool sales opened this evening. The arrivals amounted to 50,000 bales. Sydney and Cape wools preponderated. There was a preponderance of home over foreign buyers. The eagerness usually…

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The English News. By Direct Telegrams. (Reuter's telegram to Australian Associated Press, in S. M. Herald.) the Wool Market. London, December 3

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 December 1873 · page 2

Australian is a penny lower; second-hand lots are prejudicing the market. The Liverpool sales are proceeding languidly…

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Prospects for Wheat Growers. (From the Melbourne Australasian, Dec. 6.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 11 December 1873 · page 4

By submarine wire we are informed of a strong upward tendency in breadstuffs in Mark-lane. Adelaide wheat is in good demand at 67s. per quarter, and Adelaide flour at 46s. to 50s. per 280 lbs…

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The Wool Sales. London, December 13

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 18 December 1873 · page 2

The close of the November wool sales had to be postponed, owing to a dense fog on shore and afloat. Of 61,000 bales offered, a considerable quantity has been withdrawn…

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The Great Cattle Sales at Musclebrook. (From our Musiclebrook Correspondent.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 20 December 1873 · page 2

Mr. G. M. Pitt reports having sold by auction, at Eaton Sale Yards, Musclebrook, on Tuesdsay, Wednesday, and Thursday the 16th, 17th, and 18th instant, on account of the executor in the estates of the late Messrs. George and William Hall,…

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