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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

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Original Correspondence. Export of Live Cattle to England. (To the Editor of the Weekly Mercury.)

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

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

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The Farm & garden. to Succeed on the Land

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

1. Ascertain what crops are best suited for the soil of your location. 2. Select those for which there is the best masket. 3. Determine a judicious rotation of crops and adhere closely…

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The Dairy Export Trade. a Traveller's Opinions

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 3

A MR FOLEY has just returned to Sydney after a tour through Great Britain and Europe to inquire into the various modes of treating butter…

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Railway Commissioners and the Farmers. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 13 October 1894 · page 4

SIR,—After seeing the beneficial results obtained at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College by using the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.'s…

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The Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 October 1894 · page 4

Mr. George Gray, of Gresford, asks us to print for public information the following communication:—Board of Health…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 3

The following cable messages respecting the closing of London wool sales have been received : — Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, and…

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Farming Implements

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 2

It is painful to ride through the country and note the waste that is going on in farm tools. Valuable mowers, binders and reapers stand in…

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The Dairy Export Trade. a Traveller's Opinion

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 October 1894 · page 4

A MR. FOLEY has just returned to Sydney after a tour through Great Britain and Europe to inquire into the various modes of treating butter and…

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Stealing Wool

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 October 1894 · page 2

IT was reported in town on Saturday last (says the Murrurundi Times) that an extensive robbery of wool from the sheeps' back had taken place a few…

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The London Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 5

The market for colonial wool in London, under the influence of summer holidays and the near approach of the auctions, had been very quiet indeed. A small demand for the U.S.A. still continues…

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The Duties on Wheat. Deputation to the Treasurer

Singleton Argus · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 4

A DEPUTATION representing the milling and farming interests of the colony on Thursday morning, accompanied by Messrs Chanter and Gormly, Ms. L.A.,…

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Original Correspondence. Live Cattle Trade. (To the Editor of the Weekly Mercury.)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 14

Sir,—Some of your readers may have noticed a cable from London in Sydney Daily Telegraph of the 10th, telling us that "Mr. Joseph Nelson, of the firm of Nelson Bros., has written to the Times,…

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Points for Dairymen

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 16

Cows have been known to fall off seventeen per cent in the quantity of milk produced when deprived of salt for a single week. Where cows are not allowed to have free…

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Valuable Farm Hints

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 16

Never overfeed young heifers. Chopped barley is good for lambs to make bone and body. It lias been, remarked that the cream of…

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The Farm & Garden. on Green Manuring

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 October 1894 · page 16

The Hatch Experiment station of Massachusetts give in a special bulletin translation of an article of Professor Kulins on green manuring…

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The Law about Cancerous Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1894 · page 2

There having been this week a seizure of cancerous cattle in the Campbell's Hill sale yards, a renewed statement of the law on the subject of selling or exposing for sale diseased cattle will not…

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Letter to the Editor. Farmers and the Noxious Trades and Cattle Slaughtering Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 October 1894 · page 2

SIR,—Kindly allow me through the medium of your widely-read journal to bring under the consideration of the public generally and of the farming and dairying classes in particular, the manifest…

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Melbourne Wool Market. Melbourne

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 October 1894 · page 3

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Co. report:—We opened our wool sales to-day with the largest and best catalogue yet offered this season. We offered about 4000 bales and sold 3800. Competition was…

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FARMERS & Railway Rates (To the Editer of the Singleton Argus.)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 24 October 1894 · page 4

SIR,—It is really quite refreshing to see any of our farmers up in array against our prohibitory railway rates. I allude to Mr J. Hayes's letter in…

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Cancerous Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 October 1894 · page 6

A couple of large bullocks were seized at the Municipal saleyards at Campbell's Hill on Monday by Senior-constable Stone, who found them to be suffering badly from cancer, and had it not…

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