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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1895

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The Flavour of Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 14

Recently a number of professors connected with agricultural experiment stations in America have been discussing the question of the origin of flavour in butter. The general result…

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The Evils of Butter Substitutes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 14

Dr. Aikman's notes on margarine, published in the Agricultural Gazelle (Eng.), are interesting, especially so to the deluded consumers of 'butter substitutes. I…

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The London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 3

Since the failure of French "bears" to depress the Antwerp wool market, the slight depression which took place in the London wool market at the close of the late series of wool sales is now passing…

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Farmers and Their Produce

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 October 1895 · page 14

At the meeting of the committee of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association on Monday afternoon, the Chairman, Mr. R. SCOBIE, brought under the notice of the meeting an…

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Farm and Factory Notes

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 1 November 1895 · page 2

During the month of September the Robertson Dairy Company treated 47,000 gallons of [?] and paid suppliers 5[?] per gallon…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 November 1895 · page 3

The Bradford wool market is quiet, but the tone is improving. Merinos are still weak. The prices for other kinds are well maintained…

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The American Live Cattle Trade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 November 1895 · page 16

A passenger who arrived from British Columbia by the last trip of the steamer Miowera, and who has taken some interest in the live cattle trade from American ports to England, states that it may…

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Rolling Wheat and Pasture Lands

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 November 1895 · page 14

There are many wheat and pasture fields in the colony (says "Thistledown" in Australasian) that appear to me to need rolling only to make them very much more…

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The Farm & garden. Judging the Age of Yigs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 2 November 1895 · page 14

As a general thing, we are contented to take the pig by general appearances, with respect to age. But the teeth, in the case of the pig like other animals tell the tale. Of…

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Farmer and Company

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 November 1895 · page 4

FARMER and COMPANY, of Sydney, beg to announce that their representative, Mr E. G. FLETCHER, expects to be in Singleton next Monday and Tuesday. He has with…

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The Wool Market. London, November 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 4 November 1895 · page 3

The Bradford wool market is quiet, but the tone is improving. Merinoes are still weak. The prices for other kinds are well maintained…

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The Maori's Shipment of Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 5 November 1895 · page 5

The steamer Maori, which left Sydney on the 8th September with 170 head of cattle, has arrived and has landed 163 head of her shipment…

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The Australian Cattle Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 November 1895 · page 5

The secretary of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has written a letter to the Times upon the question of the Australian cattle trude. He says that the traffic is inhuman, and in…

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The Live Cattle Trade. a Striking Letter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 November 1895 · page 4

We (Sydney Stock and Station Journal) all realise very fully that the need of the day is an observer in London who can tell us the real results of the live cattle trade from our point of view. In Mr…

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The Butter Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1895 · page 3

Mr. David Elder, the Melbourne manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, who is at present on a visit to London, advises Australian butter producers to consign their…

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Live Cattle Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 7 November 1895 · page 3

Experts state that the shipment of cattle by the steamer Maori, which left Sydney on the 8th September is a poor one, and that but few of the cattle are in decent condition. They question the…

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The Cattle Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 November 1895 · page 3

The cattle brought by the steamer Maori from Australia are killing poorly, some of the bullocks being much wasted by the voyage. Several of the the cows realised 2s 2d per stone. It is expected…

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The Sheep Stealing Case

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 8 November 1895 · page 3

John and Albert Smith, charged with sheep stealing, were to-day further remanded until next Tuesday…

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Australian Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1895 · page 3

The butter by the R.M.S. Ormuz has arrived in good condition…

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Live Cattle Trade

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 November 1895 · page 3

The bulk of the steamer Macri's shipment of cattle was said at the Deptford Market at an average of between £12 to £13. The best cows realised from £9 to £10 each. A few bullocks…

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