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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
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FORBES STOCK REPORT.—Friday Evening.—No rain has fallen this week, but the weather has been beautifully cool for this season of the year. Today, hiwever, it is somewhat closer, and showing…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Messrs. Bacon and Co. report:—At our auction of store sheep, yesterday, we disposed of nearly 6,000 two-tooth ewes and wethers at fair prices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. report:—We offered 2641 bales of wool yesterday to a full and representative attendance of English and Continental buyers. Competition was brisk at prices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Whatever may be said of the internal working of the Railway Department, it is evident that the Commissioners are fully determined to make everything connected with the management of the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The moist brown Boill in furrows lay, Where the field sloped up the hill; Below the meadows scretched away To the farm-house at the mill…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Now Zealand Loan and Mercanti[?] Agency Company, Limited, reports. At our fortnightly sale of woo Monday, the attendance of buyers was some…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The wool sales contiue with a hardening tendency…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. report:— At our second sale this week we offered yesterday 6764 bales wool to the usual attendance of buyers augmented by a contingent of Melbourne operators…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Messrs. Grainger and Son report having sold at above markets, on Tuesday last, Feb. 10:—Butter from 3d to 7d per 1b., eggs from 1s 3d to 1s 5½d per dozen, cheese (local) from 2d to 3½d per lb., ditto…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →It would be difficult, perhaps impossible, observe Messrs. Willana and Overbury, in their annual circular, to find any year in the history of the colonial wool trade which has so completely…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following prices were realised at the above Company's sales, at the sheds, South Maitland, yesterday:— 1673lbs. butter, 2d to 9d; 1126 dozen eggs, 1s 3d…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday the usual weekly sales in connection with the above Association were held in the sheds and yards adjoining the Church-street railway station. Mr. H. J. Marshall was the auctioner, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The Australian Mortgage and Agency Co. report: —We offered 630 bales of wool at auction to-day, had very active competition. We sold 615 bales greasy to 9¼d;! for Bogarrilda FHH, Clear Springs,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →I believe I have made more money from fowls than anyone near me, in the last eighteen years, and I decidedly prefer a stationary fowl house, writes a correspondent of a California paper…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Below we give a summary of produce Bold since last report:— January 30.—1000 lbs. butter from 5d to 10d per lb., 361 lbs. inferior 1d to 4d, 510 dozen eggs from…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The following from the Namoi Independent is an outline of the speech on the above subject delivered at Gunnedah last Week by Mr. John Haynes, member for Mudgee. Mr. Haynes, on being asked to address the meeting, said he had great…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →SIR,—When we consider the wonderful advances which have been made in the southern districts of this colony in the manufacture of butter, by the separating process, it is surprising to me that our…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The wool sales have had to bo postponed owing to the heavy fog…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Use a little mutton tallow or vaseline when there are signs of the cow's teats [?]raking. The prayer of every dairyman should be,…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FORBES STOCK REPORT.—Friday evening.—The weather daring the last week or two has been more like summer than any we have experienced this season, with the exception that the nights are…
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