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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1897

743 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 9 of 38

The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 1 April 1897 · page 5

At the London wool salon to-day bidding was Blow find prides remained unchanged…

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The Wool Market

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

At the wool sales this evening prices were firm and American buyers were operating freely…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 5

The following rates have been realised:—Powell, 7[?]; Waitoa, 7[?]; Clare, 8d; Brookong, 8[?]; Nyang, 9d; Buile, 10[?]d, There is moe business doing in Brandford tops, owing to the demand for…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 April 1897 · page 5

At the London wool sale a brisk sale is experi-enced, and wasty crossbreds sold well…

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The Farm & garden. the Improvement of Cows

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

One of the most instructive articles that has yet been written on this important subject appeared the other day in the Warrnambool Standard. It is by Mr. Robert Crowe, the…

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London Wool Sales.. April 4

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

The second series of wool sales for the present year has closed, Prices closed firem as compared with those which ruled at the opening of sales. Long shafty merinos and the better-class greasy…

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The Price of Butter

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

To-day there is no atatement in the vigour with which the butter war is being waged among the wholesale merchants in Sussex-street. The recent raising of the price of best creamery form 0d to 10d…

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The Price Op Butter

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

Dual prices continue to be quoted in Sussex-street for best creamery butter, some flams asking 10d and others 9d per 1b. The manager of one of the largest produce flrms in Sydney states…

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Letter to the Editor. the Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 3

SIR—No ono has a better knowledge than ourselves of the seriousness of the drought prevalent in some of the producing centres, and no one can more sincerely regret the…

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Farm Produce. Advance in Prices. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 7 April 1897 · page 2

THIS morning the market for maize strengthened considerably. Prime quality is now worth 2s 6d to 2s 7d, and very firm at those figures. Prime…

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Sheep Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 4

The Directors of the Sheep Board met at the Court House yesterday morning Mr. R. T. Blax-land occuping the chair. Mr. P.J.C. McDouall and Messrs. E. Alford (Stock Inspector) and T. F…

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The Wheat Supply

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 3

The wheat market shows a downward tendency. The visible supply is 55,946,000 quarters…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 3

The dual prices of 9d and 10d are still queted in Sussex-street for best creamery butter wholesale. The opponents of the advance were jubilant yes-terday when one of the tenpenny firms posted up…

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Sheep Directors' Meeting

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 3

A MEETING of the Board of Sheep Directors was held at the Courthouse at 10 o'clock on Wednesday. when there were present: Messrs. R…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 5

We have much pleasure in drawing the attention of our readers to the advertisement of the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association, which appears in another column of this issue. The magnitude…

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The Farm & garden. the Mother with Little Pigs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 11

There is a heavy drain upon the mother suckling a large litter, and care is necessary in the feeding. When she is in a comfortable stye, with the run of a bit of grass land, she…

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The Pastoral Outlook in Victoria

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 April 1897 · page 3

Attention was drawn in the argus of Friday to the feeling of uneasiness amongst farmers and pastoralists as to the possibility of drought, and the fact that the summer has been especially…

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Experimental Farm for the Williams

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 April 1897 · page 2

Mr H. H. Brown, the member for the district, is evidently not an admirer of Mr Sydney Smith's scheme for the establishment of experimental…

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The Pastoral Outlook in Victoria

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 April 1897 · page 14

Attention was drawn in the Argus of Friday to the feeling of uneasiness amongst farmers and pastoralists as to the possibility of a drought, and the fact that the summer has been especially…

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