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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1885

405 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 13 of 21

Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 19 September 1885 · page 5

WILCANNIA STOCK REPORT.—We have to note the fall of 37 points of rain on Wednesday. It carne down in light showers, which extended over the day and a portion of the night, and, although the…

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The Farmer. The Breeding of Draught Horses

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 September 1885 · page 2

The Hon. T. C. Jones, in a letter on this subject in the [?] Gazette([?]) says:-The first matter to be attended to [?] of meron suitable for this pur…

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Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1885 · page 7

DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—Sep. 17.—The weather during the week has been changeable. On Sunday it looked like rain. Threatening clouds drifted about all day. Towards night, they became more…

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The Wool Prospects. (Australasian, Sept. 19.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 22 September 1885 · page 4

The advices received by the mail give some particulars of the wool trade on the Continent. When the mail left early in August, after the London June-July wool sales had closed, all kinds…

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The Decline in Wheat and Wool

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 September 1885 · page 1

THE Melbourne Age of the 15th says :— There are indications which it would be unwise to disregard that our present state of prosperity may soon receive a…

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The Future of the Wool Trade

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 23 September 1885 · page 1

IT is of course impossible to foretell at this moment what the outcome of the situation will be. Alarmists are already predicting that the depression in wool…

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Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1885 · page 3

FORBES STOCK REPORT.—Friday evening, Sept. [?]: There has been a decided and most satisfactory change in the weather since our last. On Sunday [?]al Monday nearly an inch of rain fell, and since…

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H. R. Farmers Association Sales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 24 September 1885 · page 6

Yesterday the produce sale in connection with the Hunter River Farmers Association, hold on the ground near the Church-street railway station, was conducted by Mr. J. H. Brunker (for Brunker and…

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London Wool Sales. (From the Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 14

Sale of 49 bales, from Queensland, by Windeller and Co.:- Ex Parramatta, from Queensland: McW over Rodney Downs, 6 scoured clothing at 15d, 28 at…

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Farmer Dickson's Will

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 13

A dispatch from Sparta, Ga., says: Great interest is exhibited in the will of the late David Dickson, the farmer millionaire, who died leaving all of his property, excepting a small pittance, to Amanda…

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The Sugar Crop on the Tweed. (By Telegraph to the Herald.) Murwillumbah

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 4

The dry weather of the last six months came to an end last night, when a heavy thunderstorm occurred, the lightning being extremely vivid, and rain fell for about five hours. For some days previously…

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Farmer. Feeding and Watering Poultry

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 September 1885 · page 2

FREDING and watering poultry are (says Mr. Henry Stewart) generally much neglected by those who keep fowls. The active foraging of fowls, and their patient and uncomplaining…

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Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1885 · page 3

DUBBO STOCK REPORT.—The weather since our last has boen changeable but on the whole very dry. We have had one or two showers of rain, but not enough to do any good. We require a good…

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Improving Australian Sheep, Horses, &c

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1885 · page 4

The Melbourne Australasian of the 26th, has the following comments in an article reviewing the annual report of the Victorian Department of Agriculture:…

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London Wool Sales. (S. M. Herald.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1885 · page 6

Sale of 4427 bales, from Sydney and Queensland by Jacomb Son, and Co., on Thursday, 9th July, 1885: Ex Cimba, from Sydney: C in diamond over B,…

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Price of Flour and Wheat. (Australasian, Sept. 26.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1885 · page 6

There is still no sign of activity in the breadstuffs market. For flour there has been a moderate inquiry, but buyers do not care to operate freely. There is no doubt that stocks, both locally and in…

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China as a Field for our Wool. (Australasian, Sept. 26.)

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 September 1885 · page 6

The late Mr. Monckton Synnot's proposal to introduce Australian wool into China is attracting considerable attention among our leading woolgrowers just now. For ten years the question has…

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Farming, a Neglected Art

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 September 1885 · page 3

THE late on bo[?] the Vernon are taught several [?] and fitted to till useful ocoupations in the world, but there is one ocoupation which in the [?] it is not possible can there be taught…

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Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 October 1885 · page 6

FORBES WEATHER REPORT. — Friday Evening, Sept. 25.—On Tuesday night a good shower of rain fell, but unfortunately it was neither very heavy nor of long continuance. The country around here…

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Hunter River Farmers Association Sales

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 1 October 1885 · page 4

The weekly eales in connection with the H. R. Farmers Association, were held at the yards and shed, Church-street, yesterday, by Mr. J. H. Brunker (for Messrs. Brunker and Wolfe), and as…

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