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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1896

533 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 27

The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 13 May 1896 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day there was strong competition at the best rates of the series…

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The Lien on Wool Act

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 May 1896 · page 2

SEVERAL mouths ago James Thomas Piper, farmer And grazier, sued the Bank of New South Wales to recover damages for malicious prosecution by…

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The London Wool Sales. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 13 May 1896 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday an excellent selection was offered. Tasmauian wools realised fancy prices and other wools were firm…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 14 May 1896 · page 3

The following rates have been realised for the respective clips:—Leichhardt, 8½d: Felton, 8 7/8d; Mangakuri, 9 4/8d ; Kadnock, 10¼d; Glenorchy, 10¼d; Grong Grong, scoured, 15 6/8 d…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1896 · page 3

At the wool sales this evening an inferior selection only was offered. Prices for [?]aulties irregular; good sorts unchanged…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1896 · page 3

The following rates have been realised for the respective clips:— Dungalear, 8d; Mimous, 9d; Welltown, 9¼d: strathvean, 10d : H. E., 10 1/8 ;[?] Spring (accured), 16¼d…

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Namoi Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Narrabri

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 15 May 1896 · page 3

The Namoi Pastoral and Agricultural Show opened here yesterday under somewhat unfavourable circumstances as regard the weather, which was cold and bleak. The attendance in…

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Water-Rot" in Sheep. Chief Inspector of Stock

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1896 · page 1

The character of the soil where fluke and water-rot are most prevalent is retentive, the disease being mostly confined to red-gum alluvial flats…

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Farmer's Wives

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 15 May 1896 · page 1

Farmers' wives in America are the most moral people in the world. They have a fair education, now-a-days, and they live where the air is fresh and the water pure…

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Californian Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 8

The Premier (Mr. G. H. Reid) delivered an address at Lithgow on Thursday, and portions of it were hot and hard enough to make his opponents squirm. Said he in one part of his speech : A…

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The Millgrove Butter Factory

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 12

Early in 1895 Mr. James Withycombe, of Piercefield, purchased Mr. F. Thrum's well-known property, "The Mill," situated on the bank of the Hunter in South Muswellbrook, and…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 3

The following rates have been realised for the respective clips: Balsklava, 6d; Noodoom 71/8d; Glanason 83/4d; Burrows 87/81; Burraba, 9d…

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The Farm & garden. Wool Sales in the Early Days

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 8

Mr. Henry R. Kerr, Croydon-street, Petesham, possesses several interesting documents in connection with the sale of wool and stock many years ago. One is an account sale of…

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Namoi Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Narrabri

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 5

The Namoi Pastoral and Agricultural Show opened here yesterday under somewhat unfavourable circumstances as regards the weather, which was cold and bleak. The attendance in…

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Government Dairy Farm

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 5

When the Premier was making his tour through the Northern districts of the colony during the recess, he was greatly impressed with the capabilities…

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Dairy Inspection

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 May 1896 · page 8

The annual inspection of dairies in the Patrick's Plains police district (outside municipal boundaries) was recently made by Mr. F. W. Melhuish, M.R.C.V.S., Veterinary…

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London Wool Sales. May 17

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 18 May 1896 · page 5

The wool sales closed, with prices rather [?] regular, at about the lovel of the January closing rates but showing a hardening tendency, The statistical. position induces, importers to expect a recovery…

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Shipment of Stud Sheep to London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 May 1896 · page 5

The Boa d of Agriculture has issued instructions forbidding the New South Wales authorities to reship foreign stud sheep to London although the sheep may have undergone a fortnight's quarantine…

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Farmer and Company

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 20 May 1896 · page 2

Farmer and Company, of Sydney, beg to announco that their representative, Mr E. G. Fletcher, will bo in Singleton on Thursday afternoon and nil day Friday next,'…

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Agricultural aud Pastoral Production

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 May 1896 · page 14

Our Moree correspondent writes —A contributor to the S. M. Herald under the heading of "The services of the State," rings the bell in his statement that:—"Students of modern social economics…

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