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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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The Cattle Export Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 3

Messrs M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn and Co. are forming a company to be called the Queensland Chilling and Packing company, with a capital of £150,000 It is proposed to erect works at…

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Sals of Diseased Cattle. Important Cases. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 2

A DECISION affecting cattle salesmen was given in the Police Court to-day, when three members of the firm of J. C. Young and Company were each…

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The Bradford Wool Market. Prices Hardening. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 5

THE Bradford wool market is animated and prices are hardening…

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Catch Crops As Economisers of Nitrogen

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 6

Quite recently so distinguished an investigator as M. Deherain has communicated to the Academy of Sciences, Paris, the result of experinents made with the drainage waters…

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The Farm & Garden. Gardening Notes for September. Flower Garden

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 6

During last month some parts of the colony were favoured with rain, and in the surrounding districts a few beneficial showers fell, and it is to be hoped that before the end of the…

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Distribution of Seed to Farmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 15

On Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock Mr. A. A. Dunnicliff, Inspector of Agriculture, was at the railway goods shed for the purpose of personally superintending the distribution of seed potatoes and…

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Farm Produce

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 6

Wheat, James Noble; Thorley Bros., second. 2 entries Oats. Thorley Bros. Only entry Capo Barley. Peter Krams. only entry…

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The Live Cattle Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 September 1895 · page 3

The steamer Southern Cross, which left Sydney on the 9th July with 550 bullocks, 29 horses, and 488 sheep, (the largest cargo of live bullocks that baa ever left Australia), has arrived at St. Vincent…

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The London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 September 1895 · page 5

Mr. Alex. Brown, Managing Director for Mesars, Dalgety and Co., Limited, this afternoon very kindly telegraphed as the following information from Newcastle:—…

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The Railway Wool Rates and Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 September 1895 · page 4

The following correspondence has been handed to us for publication: Minute.—Seduction in greasy wool rates on the North-Western branch line from Narrabri…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 September 1895 · page 3

The wool market is very firm, sales having been effected at full 20 per cent, above pikes bid at last sales. Brokers expect a general rise on late figures of from 10 to 15 per cent, at forthcoming…

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A Visit to a Sheep Station

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 September 1895 · page 3

Accepting an oft-tendered invitation [?] a friend, proprietor of a pastoral property in the Eastern Division of N.S.W., on which are depastured…

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The Live Cattle Trade. London, Sept. 5

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 September 1895 · page 3

The steamer Warrigal, which left Sydney on the 6th July with 120 sheep and 20 head of cattle, has arrived at Gravesend. She lost four of the cattle and six sheep. The remainder are in good…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1895 · page 3

Danish butter is quoted at 110s per cwt. Much of the shipment or butler by the R.M.S. Ophir arrived in bad condition, being heated. Salesmen are storing it, as they fear it will damage the…

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The Railway Wool Rates and Newcastle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1895 · page 6

The following correspondence has been handed to us for publication: Minute.—Reduction in greasy wool rates on the North. Western branch line from Narrabri,…

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Latest News by Cable. the London Wool Market. London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1895 · page 3

The Bradford wool market continues very animated. Merino wools are firm, and crossbreds have an upward tendency…

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A Visit to a Sheep Station. Part Ii. [Coup De Main.]

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1895 · page 3

During the winter and autumn months little or no trace of the Darling pea is to be seen, so that it is plain in the other port[?] of the year…

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Shipment of Live Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 September 1895 · page 5

Ten of the best sheep from New Zealand, on board the steamer Buteshire, have been sold, to arrive, at 58s per head. The owners of the sheep have requested Sir W. B. Perceval, Agent General…

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A New Idea in Irrigation Within the Reach of Small Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1895 · page 2

The average farmer shakes his head when you talk to him about irrigation, and says: "Costs too much, to start it." And so far in regard to Australia…

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The Cattle Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 September 1895 · page 3

Experts in the Smithfield market are of opinion that only forty of the sheep brought by the steamer Southern Cross are good, and worth about 35s.—London, September 13:…

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