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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

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Sydney Wool Markt

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1891 · page 7

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report:— To-day we submitted a wool catalogue of 494 bales, made up entirely of oddments and star lots, i.c., parcels of less than 4 bales. The sale attracted a…

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Farmer. Home Made Cheese in Hot Weather

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 31 December 1891 · page 1

To make cheese in hot weather (writes J. L. Cowen in the American Agriculturist) the milk should stand until it is so sour that the whey separates…

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Extensive Bush Fires. a Young Man Burnt to Death. Great Damage to Crops. [?]Ilderie

The Scone Advocate · Thursday 31 December 1891 · page 1

AN extensive bush [?] broke out at Tuppal on Friday. The fire swept easterly town is Murray Hat destroying a large quantity of grass and…

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Profit Sha[?]on the Farm

The Maitland Mercury and Hunter River General Advertiser · Thursday 31 December 1891 · page 7

Trials of the pr[?]in system in farming have not generallyed successful, partly because it has been [?] in recent years to obtain any profit to share[?]artly because a manager…

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