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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

430 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 7 of 22

Correspondence. the Price of Wheat in Scone. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate)

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 2

SIR.—In your issue of the 13th inst, an anonymous correspondent signing himself "John Barleycorn" has used your columns as the vehicle of a…

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Farming and Grazing Notes

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 2

In seeking mears wherewith to resuscitate the finances of Australia, one has to go further afield than mere retrenchment. The prosperity of the colonies in the past has…

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Farm Produce

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 2

The farm produce exhibits are housed in the main pavilion, which is rendered very attractive by the trophies of corn cobs and wheat cars, etc. The Camden Agricultural…

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Dairy Produce

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 2

N.S.W. sent to Victoria this your for a butter expert, and they assuredly secured one in Mr. W. H. Vagg, manager of the Melbourne Chilled Butter Company. Mr…

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The Harrington Farmers. To the Editor

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 17 April 1894 · page 2

Sir,—In a recent issue of your paper there appeared a paragraph from your Barrington correspondent. who stated that it was untrue that I had…

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Parliament of N. S. WALES The Dairying Industry. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 3

IN the Assembly to-day the general business was unimportant. Mr O'Sullivau moved the adjournment of the House in order to urge the…

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The Singleton Farmers' Union. (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 18 April 1894 · page 2

SIR,—I am surprises! the committee of the above Lave not taken steps to secure better price than are ruling at present. If they opened a market…

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Low Prices for Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 5

We ("Inverell Argus") are informed on reliable authority that one of the cheapest mobs of bullocks ever, disposed of was purchased a few days…

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The Dairy Implements at the Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 4

The dairying industry is becoming such an important one in this district, that the machinery used in its development was eagerly inspected by those interested, and the various tests and trials…

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Monster Hay Farm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 20 April 1894 · page 6

The "River Plate Sport and Pastime" gives an account of an immense hay farm, the property of Don. J. J. Carvagal…

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London Sales of Colonial Wool

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 12

Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co. write from 61 Moorgate-street, under date of March 7:— The second series of sales of Colonial wool for the current year commenced here on the 27th…

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A Salvation Army Farm Settlement. (Full Salvation, April 2.)

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 12

When General Booth was asked what he would do with the unemployed of this and other countries, his reply was prompt and decisive : " Put them on the land." The efficacy of that prescription is…

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The Dairy Implements at the Show

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 4

The dairying industry is becoming such an important one in this district, that the machinery used in its development was eagerly inspected by those interested, and the various tests and trials…

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The Farm and Garden. Egg Eating by Fowls

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 10

Egg eating hens are often the result of a habit formed by having access to broken eggs, though in other cases the habit comes from an innate hunger born of the lack of proper…

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Farmers' Central Markets

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 April 1894 · page 5

Grainger and Falkiner's report:—The produce trade remains steady. Buyers of snaize are prepared to operate For immediate delivery at about as we have placed…

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Wool Season Review. Some Good Advice

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 April 1894 · page 4

IN Winchcombe, Carson, and Co.'s annual review, which is to hand, there is much in it that might be produced for the benefit of those interested in…

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About Wool

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 April 1894 · page 4

Of the composition of wool this chemical estimate has been given: Carhon, fifty per cent.; hydrogen, seven: nitrogen, seventeen; oxygen, twenty-one; and sulphur fire. While…

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Improving Wheat Prospects

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 April 1894 · page 2

The Australian farmer is undoubtedly now thoroughly alive to the fact that prices of farm produce are no longer regulated by local supply and…

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Milking and Butter Tests Tn England

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 13

Milking tests at the Royal Agricultural Society's show, held recently, are (says Rural Australian!) very interesting. Cows that weighed over l000lbs. competed together,…

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The Pastoral Industry. Its Depression, Cause and Remedy (To the Editor of Singleton Argus.)

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 April 1894 · page 6

SIR, —In these present days of ruinous prices at which pastoralists are compelled by force of circumstances to sacrifice—I cannot say sell—their…

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