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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land
528 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 27
The London wool market is very firm. Only 2500 bales have been sold since the close of the last series of sales, holders being indisposed to anticipate the coming sales. The prices of Bradford tops…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In consequence of the farmers of Capo Colony being undersold in their own market by imported Australian wheat, tho Government of the Cape has decided to despatch two representative farmers to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →SIR,—Until recently the sight of prickly pears have stirred up feelings of anything but pleasure, but now I am rejoicing in the fact that I have a five-acre patch of "beautiful" two-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The main points to be observed in milking, observes Mrs. E. A. Humphreys, in the prize essay which has attracted much attention, are cleanliness and carefulness. Cleanliness is…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →SIR,—Until recently the sight of prickly pears have stirred up feelings of anything but pleasure, but now I am rejoicing in the fact that I have a five-acre patch of "beautiful" two-year-old…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The steamer Urmaton Grange, which left Sydney on 6th August with 230 head of live cattle, has arrived at Buenos Ayres. She reports having lost 14 bullocks on the voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Experts consider that the cattle brought by the steamer Southern Cross are only second-rate, and that the sheep are rough and poor. Ten of the bullocks, weighing 750lb each, have been sold at…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE largest farm in America, and probably in the world, is situated in the south-western part of Louisiana. It extends 100 miles north and south,…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →A Swede named Salienius has invented a radiator machine which, it is claimed, will produce butter direct from milk in one minute. Professor Long and other expects consider the invention an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Only 200 of the bullocks brought by the Southern Cross have been sold, the prices realised ranging from £17 10s to £17 10s per bead. The remainder will not be offered at the Deptford market…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd. (J. C. Young & Co.)., report that sales of wool were resumed on Monday this week, and continued on Tuesday and Wednesday, and that the quantity…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →In formall opening the newly-established Dairy Institute yesterday, the Duke of Devonshire said that the spread of technical education would alone save the British, farmer, though Parliament might…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Consequent upon the recent rains the price of batter has come down. Choicest brands creamery are now quoted at 1s l 1/2d per 1b…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The officers of the Board of Agriculture have discovered six casts of pleuro among the cattle which were landed from the Southern Cross…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Every operation within this well-appointed shed seems to be conducted with the method and business like precision observable in a large factory…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The imports of butter at the port of Sydney last week were 193,920lb The Berry Central Creamory, last Tuesday, despatched its first ton of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The steamer Urmston Grange, which left Sydney on 6th August with 230 head of live cattle, has arrived at Buenos Ayres. She reports having lost 14 bullocks on the voyage…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →ON Thursday the steamer Nairnshire left Sydney for London via Wellington, with 90 head of cattle for the English market. She also took large,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Minister of Agriculture has received full information from the Agent-General as to the new Radiator Butter-making Machine, the invention of Mr. Salienius. Mr. Ebdy, the butter expert, says…
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