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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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FORBES STOCK REPORT.—Friday evening, Jan. 11.—The weather has been intensely hot during the week, and up to the time of our writing there are no signs of a change. The highest reading of the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. Mort and Co. report:—We have sold 2900 bales of wool since our last report at 6[?]d to 11[?]d for greasy, 12[?]d to 18[?]i for fleece, 15d to 19d for scoured. Foreign buyers are still buying freely…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Sun remarks that sweet apples alone do not make good cider, as the juice ferments rapidly. Mix them with sour apples. Gather the fruit when mature, and store in a dry…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—Thursday, Jan. 17.— The weather continues to be what is expressively and commonly called a terror. There is co sign of a change. The sun each day becomes more intensely…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A paragraph appeared in out last issue with reference to a number of fat cattle that died while being conveyed by rail from the North-western district to Farley, near West…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →At a much e[?]er p[?]od than usual the wool season of 1883[?]4 shews unmistakeable signs of drawing towards a close. There is still on band a Considerable quantity of wool for disposal, but the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FORBES STOCK REPORT.—Friday evening, Jan. 18.—Intense heat prevailed during the early part of the week, but on Wednesday there was a change. On Thursday it was more noticeable, and appearances…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Dalgety, Blackwood, and Co. have sent us the following table, showing the wool shipments from the four colonies to the latest dates received, compared with those to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. report:—We have this week sold 1700 bales wool, at firm prices. Interior to good average greasy, 6d to 11?d; interior to good average fleece and scoured to 21d, the latter…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Mort and Co. report:—We offered 2400 bales wool to-day, and sold 1750 at 7d to 11d for greasy, 13d to 17¼d for fleece, and 15d to 18½d for faulty scoured…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On Monday evening the fifth half-yearly meeting of the members of the Hunter River Farmers' Association was continued and concluded in the Largs School of Arts. There…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →NARRABRI STOCK REPORT.—January 22, 1884.—There is very little alteration to report in the weather since our last; the threatening weather of Sunday last terminating in a storm, but only ten points fell here. Between Galathera and Bumble,…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co. report:—We offered to-day about 1000 bales, to excellent competition, prices equal to any previously going. We sold about 880…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE sunflower has long been grown for its oil seeds in Russia and India, and the cultivation has been more recently taken up in Germany and Italy. The plant grows readily…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →THE potatoes should be dug as soon as they have matured. It will not do to leave them to nature and the weeds; for nature does not care anything more about them, and the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →DURING the last quarter of this year elaborate calculations were made by the corn-trade statisticians of Europe and America, with the obiect of discovering…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →In a contemporary lately (writes a correspondent of the North British Advertiser), there was a column devoted to " white animals," prompted, probably, by a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →NARRABRI STOCK REPORT.—January 25,1884,— The weather since the change on Sunday last has remained comparatively cool, the thermometer at no time since reaching 100 deg. in the shade. The…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →HAY STOCK REPORT—80th January—The weather co[?] tinues cool but it is growing warmer. The following are the crossings:—Jan. 21,1400 fat sheep from Nap Nap to railway yards, McKechnle in charge; 200 lambs from Maude to railway…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Messrs. Mort and Co., limited, report: We offered 1800 bales of wool at auction to-day; there was a full attendance, and brisk competition. Greasy realised up to l0[?]d; washed flaece to 17d; and faulty…
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