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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

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The Dairying Industry

Singleton Argus · Saturday 26 June 1897 · page 2

Elsewhere will be found an excellent letter on the above subject from the pen of Mr Robert C. M'Douall, and is highly interesting and instructive. As Mr M'Douall…

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The English Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 5

In the Bradford wool market prices are unchanged. The quantity of colonial wool that has arrived for the next series of wool sales amounts to 804,000 bales, of which 71,000 bales have been…

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The Singleton Argus Wednesday, June 30Th, 1897. Practical Side of Dairying

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 30 June 1897 · page 2

The best advice farmers can at all times receive is that given from practical sources. Especially is this the case in regard to the expanding…

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The Sheep Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 July 1897 · page 3

The third annual exhibition of the New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association commenced at Moore Park this morning, but will be officially opened by the Governor to-morrow. To-day the…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 July 1897 · page 4

A meeting of the Show Ground Committee was held in the Secretary's office yesterday, Mr. R. T. Keys presiding. The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. Letters were read from…

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The Sheep Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 3

The Sheep Show was officially opened at noon to-day by Lord Hampden, to whom an address was presented in which it was stated that the year had been a very disastrouse one te pasteralists…

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A Pearl Farm

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 1

There is only one pearl farm in the world. It is in the Torres Strait, at the northern extremity of Australia, and belongs to James Clark, of Queensland…

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The Farmers' Fowl

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 2 July 1897 · page 3

Under the above heading Mr. A. Hemsley has contributed a series of papers to the well known English journal the "Fanciers' Gazette." Dealing…

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FARM & DAIRY. Trouble between Cattle-brooders

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 7

The trouble which is afoot between the French and English cattlebreeders over the matter of applying the French teat of tuberculosis to…

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Sydney Sheep Show. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 4

The Governor officially opened the Sheep Show to-day. There is a good attendance…

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Wool and Tallow—London Prices

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 10

Mr. F. E. Winchcombe, the well-known Sydney business man, who is at present in England, writes to a friend as follows regarding wool sales, etc. :— The Germans are very quiet in London just now…

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The farm & garden. Sowing Mangolds

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 11

Some time ago (says a correspondent of Australasian) I advised farmers and dairymen, particularly those residing in the cooler districts, to grow mangolds extensively as a…

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From Dairy to Market

Singleton Argus · Saturday 3 July 1897 · page 7

Too much importance cannot be attached to the necessity for dairymen to establish a system with their herds by which the utmost cleanliness…

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The Sheep Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 July 1897 · page 5

The a[?]nal sheep sales commenced this morning, and were little if anything behind their predecessors either in the matter of attendance or brisk bidding, though the prices at the opening…

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Our Singleton Letter. Singleton Farmers Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 July 1897 · page 3

The annual meeting of meeting of the above was held in the sale sheds on Saturday morning. The President (Mr. John Hayes), occupied the chair. There were also present: Messrs. T. K. Coughlan…

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News by Wire. Sydney. the Annual Sheep Salts?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 6 July 1897 · page 5

The stud sheep-sales were continued to-day, when the Coonong merinos from McCaughey's [?]tud were first put under the hammer. The opening bid for a two-and-a-half-year-old ram was 50 guineas…

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The Sheep Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 5

At the sheep salon to-day Tasmanian rams were the first offered. The opening lot came from the Hon James Gibson, of belle Vue, and consisted. of sixteen pure merino stud rams, which were sold for…

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The Pastoral Industry. Meeting of Stockowners

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 6

The largest and most representative gathering of stockowners yet held in New South Wales took place yesterday evening at Aarons' Exchange Hotel, Sydney. Pastoralists and small stockowners from…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 July 1897 · page 5

The wool sales opened very firm at par to 5 percent. advance…

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