H. R. Farmers Association
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 5 →Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
Farming & the land, 1891
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Wool Sales
The wool sales closed to-day. The market was very irregular. Superior merino from 4 to 5 per cent dcarer than the closing sales of last serics. Other qualities of merino closed…
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Since the close of the last auctions a more flattering aspect has come over our market; but for the intervention of holidays, frost, fog, and the serious railway strike in Scotland, more actual business…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Butter Factories. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
SIR,—In your impression of the 24th instant, you have a letter from Mr. Henry W. Lee, of Newcastle, about the advantages of milk producing as against hay growing. There is little doubt Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Sydney Wool Market. [By Telegraph.] Sydney, Friday evening
Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co. report:—We offered yesterday at our second sale this week 3173 bales to the usual attendance of buyers, who competed with considerable spirit at prices…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Establishment of Butter Factories. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)
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…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Farm and Garden
The Jerusalem corn, which is becoming so popular in Western Kansas, was introduced by a Finney county farmer, who received two grains of it from a missionary from…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm and Garden. the Growth of Young Plants
One of the most trying periods in the growth of a plant is when it first begins the struggle of life for itself by drawing its nutrition from the soil. It is then in an infantile state. Having consumed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Success on the Farm
A good general never starts into action without well matured plans. The successful farmer must be a man of method and order, and as just as much of a disciplinarian as the general of an army. He…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The American Wool Trade. Newcastle Chamber of Commerce. (Newcastle Herald.)
A special meeting of the members of the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce was held in the hall, Scott-street, on Friday afternoon, for the purpose of considering a resolution framed by Mr. H…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Pastoral News, Stock Movements, and Markets
COONAMBLE STOCK REPORT.—February 27.—The weather during the week has been very changeable, we being alternately treated to very warm weather, and then to remarkably cool. On Monday there…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →H. R. Farmers and Consumers Agency Co.'s Report
Yesterday Mr. J. W. Bowes conducted the weekly sale at the above company's sheds, South Maitland. Following prices were realised:— 1139 lbs. butter from 4d to 9½d per lb., 1016…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →H. R. Farmers Association
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 auctioneer,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Wheat Growing
THE past season was not a favorable one, for wheat-growing in New South Wales. Mr. Coghlan, in a preliminary return, estimates the total production…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association
A meeting of the committee of this association was held at the School of Arts, this (Wednesday) evening. Mr. R. T. Keys, President, occupied the chair, and there were also present—Messrs. T…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →"Sworn to no Master, of no Sect am I, "Be just and fear not." The Singleton Argus. Saturday, March 7Th, 1891. Butter Factories
In a previous issue appeared a letter from Mr H. W. LEE, of Newcastle, in which that gentleman [?]ought to place before the community desirability of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Farm and Garden. Tuberculosis and the Milk Supply
"How [?]ar may a cow be tuberculous before her milk [?] 3 dangerous [?] an article of food?" is an important questions ably presented in a recent bulletin of the Hatch Experiment station. The conclusions, as shown by tbe facts developed…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Original Correspondence. Hunter River Farmers. (To the Editor of the Maitland Mercury.)
Sir,—It is very pleasing to find that the letter which you kindly plublished in your paper has been so well received by the farmers, judging from the numerous letters I have received from all parts of…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Warwick Farm Races
There was a fair attendance at those races on Saturday last, which resulted as follows: HURDLE RACE.-Mand 1, Stimulant. 2, Eurolgi 3…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The London Colonial Wool Sales
The first series of colonial wool sales for this year commenced on January 27 with unusually large, good, and representative catalogues for an opening day. There was a very full attendance of buyers…
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