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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

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Colour and Flavour in Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 15

The relation between colour and flavour in butter is being discussed quite widely of late by writers for the daily journals and the agricultural papers in general. The claim has…

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Export of Live Cattle. The Muswellbrook Proposals Movement in London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 7

The proposals of gramers in Muswellbrook district, New South Wales, to ship live cattle to England is under the consideration of a number of Argentine…

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The farm & garden. Transferring From Boxes to Frame Hives

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 15

September is the beginning of the breeding season for bees with us (says Rural Australian) and a few notes about how a novice managed to change his stock from boxes—they were old times gin cases —to frame hives…

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H. R. Farmers' Produce Sales

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 October 1894 · page 3

ON Wednesday the usual weekly [?] were held in the [?] and yards adjoining the Cl[?]ch-street Railway Station, West Maitland. Mr [?] H. Brunker was the…

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London Wool Market. (Europern Mail, August 31.)

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 October 1894 · page 4

An early prospect of the definite adoption of tho new tariff in the United States tends to strengthen the position of this article, and the prices of tops, both abroad and at home, have accordingly…

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Letter to the Editor. Export of Live Cattle to England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 October 1894 · page 2

SIR,—At the present time when the subject of the exportation of live cattle to England is being brought be prominently before the cattle breeders of this colony and Queensland, I would beg to…

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Live Cattle for England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 October 1894 · page 2

SIR,—It is with much surprise I learn from my Queensland co-operator in this project, Mr. T. de M. Murray Prior, that his efforts to move Queensland cattle breeders to promise to handle steers for…

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Live Cattle Export to England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 October 1894 · page 2

MR. R. T. KEY'S addresses us to-day on a subject which he has made his own in a very conspicuous sense. If an export trade in live cattle to England be successfully…

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Whole Wheat Bread

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 2

The whole or entire wheat flour required different treatment from ordinary wheat flour in bread making. Set the bread early in the evening as follows: Soak a cake of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 3

The Sydney Woolselling Brokers' [?]ciation report that the weekly series wool sales were inaugurated on Monday. The quantity catalogued totalled…

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The Sydney Wool Sales

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 2

The sales of the new clip of wool which commenced under very favourable circumstances, last Monday in Sydney, may be regarded as a matter…

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The Export of Live Cattle to England

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 2

MR. R. T. KEYS, of B[?]ngalla who is the life and soul of the movement to try extensive experiments in the export of live cattle to Europe, has…

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Farm and Garden. Midsummer Dairy Hints. George E Newell

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 1

Keep the stable ventilated and cool. Keep hogs and calves out of the cow pasture. A strong fence is the best remedy for…

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Harvesting Beans on Large Farms

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 October 1894 · page 1

Until quite recently the bean crop was harvested by hand, generally palled bw boys at a small charge per row of forty rods. This was the most trying time of all for the…

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About Salting Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 16

Ordinary barrel salt is unfit for butter. It is coarse, harsh, hard to dissolve and impure. This should be sufficient to banish it entirely from the dairy, but it is not, and…

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Live Cattle Export to England

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 4

MR. R. T. KEYS has addressed us on a subject which he has made his own in a very conspicuous sense. If an export trade in live cattle to England be successfully…

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Colonial Wool in London

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 13

An early prospect of the definite adoption of the new tariff in the United States tends to strengthen the position of this article, and the prices or tops, both abroad and at home, have accordingly…

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Letter to the Editor. Live Cattle Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 3

SIR,—Some of your readers may have noticed a cable from London in last Thursday's Sydney Daily Telegraph telling us that "Mr. Joseph Nelson, of the firm of Nelson Bros., has written to the Times…

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Sydney Wool Market. Thursday evening

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 5

The Sydney Woolselling Brokers report:—The weekly Series of wool sales was inaugurated on Monday before a large assemblage of buyers. The market opened very flat, prices ranging on an…

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Colonial Wheat in England (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 2

SIR,-The Times has issued a warning to the colonies, that if they want to sell surplus wheat and other cereals in the English market, they must…

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