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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
384 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 20
The Secretary for Mines and Agriculture has considered a comprehensive scheme for allotting the £5000 voted for national prizes for this year. He has approved of a number of prizes for the best…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A writer gives some plain rales for butter making: The best temperature at which to churn in Summer is from fifty-four degrees to fifty-eight degrees, and in Winter from fifty-eight degrees to…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →In the extreme, southwest corner of Louisiana lies the largest producing farm in the world. Measuring 100 miles north and south, and 25 miles east and west, it is owned and operated by a syndicate…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A quarterly committee meeting of the above society was held in the Morpeth School of Arts, on Friday evening, 24th of April. Mr. J. J. Kearney (President) occupied the chair. There was a good…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Sir,—Through your widely circulated columns I desire to bring before the notice of stockowners, auctioneers and others interested in the large cattle sales which take place in Muswellbrook, a serious evil…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →A MELBOURNE telegram intimates that the Government intend to abolish the bonuses on exported Victorian butter, as the bonuses go into the pockets of butter merchants…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The adjourned inquest upon the body of the infant Eva Greenhalgh was concluded before Mr. J. K. Lethbridge, J.P., District Coroner, at Penrith, on Friday…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Mr Jay's letter, published in another column of this issue, sets forth very clearly the advantages to be obtained by the establishment of a co operative…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →FORBES STOCK REPORT.—Friday evening, May 1. —There has been no rain during the week, but the effects of that which fell a week or two back is seen in the rapid growth of grass on every hand. In…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Messrs.Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. report:—We offered yesterday 294 bales, selling at auction and privately 286 bales; good attendance of buyers, and competition brisk at values quite, equal to those…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →SIR,—A writer in the first number of the Adrecale forecasts failure for the projected Singleton butter factory on the ground that factories have injured the dairymen at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Experiments of a peculiar character have been carried out at several of the noted agricultural colleges in the United States during the past Summer, the object being to ascertain the lifting power…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,-As Mr Jay has, through the columns of your journal, also replied to mind re butter factories, which' appeared in your contemporary it is but natural for me to…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The second series of colonial wool sales of the present year opened at the Wool Exchange yesterday (April 2), when the combined catalogues of Messrs. Charles [?]alme and Co. and Messrs. Jacomb…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Mr. J. W. Bowes conducted the above company's usual weekly sales yesterday, at the shed, South Maitland, and obtained the following prices:— Butter, 1961 lbs. from 9d to 1s 2d per lb.; eggs,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Yesterday the usual weekly sales in connection with the above Association were beld in the sheds and yards adjoining the Church-street railway station. Mr. H. J. Marshall was the auctioneer, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Department of Agriculture have issued the National prizes for 1891, entries for which must be made to the Director of Agriculture, not later than the 1st of July next. First prizetakers in the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Mr Ash (for Meesra Grainger and Son) reports :—Business through the week has been brisk, The maize market is active, and large lines cleared at 2s to 2s 3d. At the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. Sydney Smith, the Secretary of Mines and Agriculture, under date the 15th instant, has issued a minute regarding the sites for experimental farms and agricultural schools to be established within…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →FORBES STOCK REPORT.—Friday evening.—There has been a return of almost summer weather during the past week, the nights not too cold, while the days have been bright and sunny. As a…
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