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Farming & the land, 1896

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 3

In the Bradford wool market crossbred wools have declined one farthing per lb…

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The Wheat Market. Landon. Oct. 29

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 3

The price of English wheat has declined nearly 2s per quarter during the week, the present quotation being 26s. A similar decline has taken place in the American market, and the quotation is…

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The Bee Farm. The Drone

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 1

The life-history of drone bees is a very short one, and, apart from the other inmates of the have, is not interesting to the beekeeper, but to the scientist it is…

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The Outlook For Our Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 30 October 1896 · page 2

We are pleased to see that admirably connected journal, the Macleay Chronicle, has been speaking some home truths to the maize growers of…

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Gold and Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 7

Two great and unexpected movements have occurred recently (says the Argus of Oct. 22). The first was the sudden depletion of the Bank of England holdings of gold by nearly £12,000,000 in the…

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The Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 3

At Mark Lane to-day American white whest is quoted at 38s per quarter, and red wheat at 82s…

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The Wheat Markets

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 4

WITHIN the last few weeks there has been in the wheat markets of the world a disturbance of which late years present no parallel. The advance in price in England is reckoned…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 12

News from London regarding the wool market is decidedly favourable. Dalgety and Co;, Ltd, report the receipt of a cablegram, dated 22nd October:—"Wool market firm, with upward tendency. Prices…

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Our Export of Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 13

New South Wales is now in the exceptional position of being able to supply its neighbours with breadstuffs. South Australia in the first nine months of the year exported 72,835 tons of wheat,…

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The Farm & garden. a Novelty in Egg Preserving

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 October 1896 · page 11

Scientists have lately turned their attention to the question of egg preserving, and among others a certain German, named Stroschein, who has patented tho process in Germany…

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The Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 November 1896 · page 5

Beerbohm's Wheat Circular says that the reaction which has taken place in the wheat market during the past work is decidedly in favour of a level of from 80s to 85s per quarter…

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The Cattle Industry of the United States

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 November 1896 · page 4

It may with truth be said that the United States was the first to set the example of requiring elaborate annual reports from her foreign consuls on the products and…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 16

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. Ltd., report:—The fifth series of colonial wool sales opened on the 22nd September. The net available supply for these sales is estimated aa follows:—…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 3

Bradford wool market is brisk. Considerable speculation in merinos at an advance of one farthing per lb.; crossbreds are also firmer…

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The Condition of Butter Producers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 11

The condition of butter producers in Denmark and Sweden on ono side, and Australia or New Zealand on tho other (says Rural Australian) differ so very much that it is…

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The American Wool Trade

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 10

Mr. T. Clementson, representing a Boston firm of wool buyers, arrived in Sydney on Saturday. He stated to a Herald reporter that this was the fifteenth trip ha had made to Australia. He…

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The Farm & Garden. Training the Young Cow

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 November 1896 · page 11

The first calf of the young cow should never ho allowed to suck in her training to bean Al milk-giver, (says Rural Australian). She should not be allowed to know but the hand…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. the Farmers' Association—annual Demonstration

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 9 November 1896 · page 2

The fifth annual demonstration of the Farmers' Association is being hold to-day. The weather is delightful, find the celebration promises to be a success. The procession started as usual…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. the Farmer's Demonstration-the Sports and Luncheon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 November 1896 · page 2

In addition to the various representations in the farmers annual procession, enumerated in Monday's Mercury, there was also an exhibition of products of the Millgrove creamery that very appropriately…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 12 November 1896 · page 3

The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday. There was a large attendances, and business was brisk. Prices show a rise of about 7 per cent, on River Plate wools, and an advance of 5 par cent,…

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