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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 3

The wool sales opened to a good attendance of buyers and there was brisk bidding at from par to a five per cent advance…

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Farmers Association Fair

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 21 September 1898 · page 2

THE privileges in connection with the Farmers Annual Demonstration to be held on the 6th October next, will be offered by public auction by Mr. C. J. Spratt at the…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 22 September 1898 · page 3

London wool market is keen, and competition has a hardening tendency…

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London Wool Sales. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 22 September 1898 · page 3

The colonial wool sales have been opened. Bidding was brisk and prices from par to 5 per cent advance on closing rates Of last series…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 23 September 1898 · page 3

For wool there is kesa competition, especially in scoured merinos…

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The Wool Trouble

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 September 1898 · page 2

The attempted boycott of the Co-Operative Wool and Produce Co, has tailed most ignominously and completely. A number of the buyers who…

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Store Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

MESSRS. Pitt, Son, and Badgery will offer at the local municipal yards on Tuesday next at 12 o'clock, 2000 head of store bullocks, and 11S head store cows. On October…

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Market News. Wheat

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 3

Mr. H. [?] Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date 22nd September, as under:— Wheat is again rather lower. Sales of…

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The Wool Dispute

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

We are pleased to be able to report that at a conference held at the instigation of the Wool Buyers, between the Wool-Selling Brokers' Association and the Co-operative…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 3

At the wool sales yesterday the prices realised for the undermentioned clips were:—Clyde, 17[?]d; Warrnambool, 7 7/8d; Dalethorpe and Ardmore, 9d; Oretti, 8 1/8d; Otekaike, 7 3/4 d…

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The French Wheat Harvest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 3

The French wheat yield is estimated at 128,000,000 hectolitres; imports are though unnecessary…

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Careful Branding of Cattle. Gratifying Commercial Results

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 5

A recent transaction in hides is worthy attention, says the Argus of Wednesday, because of its bearing on the subject of the branding of cattle. The parcel of hides was from bullocks bred by Messrs…

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A Partial Settlement of the Wool Dispute

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 7

"The dispute in the wool trade, which has for some time past been under consideration by the Wool Buyers' Association and the Co-operative Wool Company, has been satisfactory settled. A…

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To the Wool[?] of N.S.W.

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

We have been [?] to direct the at[?] interested [?] an advertisement which appears on the left-hand top corner of this page, being a…

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Singleton Police Court. Thursday, 22nd SEPTEMBER, 1898. (Before Mr F. B. Treatt, J.p.) Alleged Cattle Stealing

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

John M'Taggart, appeared on a charge of stealing a roan cow, in company with others, on or about the 15th instant, at Dargan's Farm, the…

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Farmer and Co

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 2

Farmer and Co., Limited, of Victoria House, Sydney, have pleasure in announcing that their Mr. E. G. Fletcher will visit Muswellbrook next Wednesday and…

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The Farm & Garden. Bacon Curing for Farms

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 September 1898 · page 7

The following practical paper, describing an excellent system of bacon-curing for farms, was read by Mr. J Lewis, at a recent meeting of the Burra branch of the South Australian…

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The Wool Dispute

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 September 1898 · page 4

We have been asked to reprint the following letter which appeared in the Sydney Daily Telegraph of Saturday. SIR,—I have just received word from an esteemed…

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Model Farm Project

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 26 September 1898 · page 2

SIR,—Can you any what is being done by the Agricultural Association as to procuring land for a model farm in the district? Is it possible that so important a matter has been…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 27 September 1898 · page 3

Private cable messages received to-day, state that the London wool market is very firm for merinos, whilst crossbreds are steady at late quotations…

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