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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

969 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 42 of 49

Eleven Dairy Rules

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 November 1898 · page 4

1. Keep the cows clean and wash the udders before milk ing. 2. Keep the barn clean…

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Dont's for Dairymen

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 November 1898 · page 4

Don't keep cream after it is ripe, but churn at once. Don't send it to marketwrapped in parts of cast off-clothing…

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Warning to Farmers

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 8 November 1898 · page 2

People have heard of immense fortunes being made in the poultry trado, especially by Sydney dealers. A certain dealer in Sydney has lately been offering fabulous…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 November 1898 · page 4

Wool—25381 bales were offered this week and 21806 sold. A strong market prevailed for most descriptions, the exceptions being inferior and…

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The Wool Traffic

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 November 1898 · page 2

ABOUT 330,000 bales of [?] have been [?] this [?] at the Darling Harbor. Morpeth, and Newcastle stations. Darling Harbor [?]…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 November 1898 · page 3

AT the sales on Monday, good catalogues were submitted, and in the greasy section many nice wools were included. They was a large…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 11 November 1898 · page 3

The arrivals to date for the next series of London wool sales amount to 74,000 bales of which 15,000 bales have been sent direct to the manufacturers, The quantity available for the sales will…

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Nine Dairy Rules

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 November 1898 · page 4

1. Keep the cows clean, and wash the udders before milking. 2. Keep the been clean, with walls and ceiling whitewashed; have it well…

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A Good Wheat Crop

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

A SETTLER on the Wappinguy, Mr. Whalan, has about 14 acres of wheat now almost ready for harvesting, which is estimated to go fully 40 bushels to…

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Market News. Wheat

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 3

Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date 10th November, as under:— Wheat has been a shade more lively for…

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The Wool Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 4

In spite of the unexpected downward movement in values during the last few days of September-October sales in London and of the weaker tone cabled out from Bradford…

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The Wool Season

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 5

The wool received daily at Darling Harbour assumes large proportions and as a rule November is about the busiest wool month of the year. Up to date 330,000 bales have heel…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association report:—25,381 hales were offered during the week ending November 5, and 21,806 sold. A strong market prevailed for…

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Cattle Straying on the Railways

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

The Railway Commissioners have had a good deal of trouble recently in connection with cattle straying on the railways. It is unfortunately common, particularly in…

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Price of Butter. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 5

THE wholesale price of creamery butter in Sydney, is likely to belowered shortly by a 1d per 1b…

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Local and General News. Dairymens Protective Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

A SPECIAL general meeting of the Upper, Hunter Dairymen's Protective Association will he held in the School of Arts, Aberdeen, on Wednesday…

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The Pig on the Small Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

There is hardly a farm so diminutive in size that pigs cannot be made of use with profit in consuming products that would otherwise be wasted. They take a place the…

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The Farm & Garden. Kindness to Cows

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

If you find a man who understands the question of motherhood, the laws that govern in milk-giving, who studies how to produce the best cow possible, and then how to get the…

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Success of Dairying. Conserving Fodder for the Cows

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 3

THE average farmer, it is said, does not cure to listen to anything that does not put money in his pocket, and if there is one thing more than another…

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The Singleton Argus Saturday, November 12Th, 1898. Up-to-date Farming

Singleton Argus · Saturday 12 November 1898 · page 2

ALTHOUGH the cycle of low prices for all kinds of farm produced, through which we are now passing, may be a present hardship to a large number of…

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