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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1898

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Low-class Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 December 1898 · page 3

Haires aerator, for purifying, sweetening, and preserving low-class butter, has been tested in Dublin, and it is claimed that the trials were a success…

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The Wheat Yield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 December 1898 · page 3

The Government Statistician thin afternoon completed his estimate of the wheat harvest of the colony for this year. The results of the official investigation show the yield to be very much…

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Sydney Markets. the Sydney Wool Selling Brokers Association's Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 13 December 1898 · page 6

Wool.—33.579 bales were offered this week, and the sales since last reporting amount to 31,320 bales. The market has quite recovered from any alight irregularity caused by the disappointing…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 14 December 1898 · page 4

THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending December 10th, 1898, as follows:—Wool.—33,579 bales were offered this…

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Crops in the West. Some Fine Fields of Wheat

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 December 1898 · page 4

A correspondent who has just passed through a considerable portion of the western district speaks highly of the wheat harvest in the vicinity of…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 December 1898 · page 2

Messrs. Daigety and Company, Ltd., have received the following cable from their London Office dated Dec. 18:—"The November-December wool…

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Important Butter Experiment. LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 December 1898 · page 3

A test has been made in Dublin of Haire's aerator, which it is claimed would purify, sweeten and preserve low class butter. It is claimed the…

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The Tick Plague. Cattle to be Inoculated at Singleton (To the Editor of the Singleton Argus.)

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 December 1898 · page 2

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Prosperity of American Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 December 1898 · page 3

The value of the corn and oat crops in America for 1808 is 83,000,000dol. greater than that of 1897. The prosperous condition of the farmers is killing the silver agitation…

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Dairy Inspection

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 December 1898 · page 2

The Premier was waited upon on Monday last by a deputation from the Illawarra district, which complained of the mannor in which the Dairy Supervision Act was…

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Diminutive Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 1

One of the greatest curiosities among the domesticated animals in Ceylon is a breed of cattle known to the zoologists us the "sacred running oxen." They…

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The Wheat Crops. a Large Decrease

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 December 1898 · page 3

THE Government Statistician has completed his estimate of the wheat crop, which is much lower than was anticipated earlier in the season…

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Market News. Wheat

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 17 December 1898 · page 2

Mr. H. B. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date 13th December, as follows:— I have again to report a change in the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 17 December 1898 · page 5

The Sydney Wool Selling Broken' Association report as follows under date 10th December:—33,579 bales were offered this week, and the Rales since last reporting…

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Prosperity of American Farmers LONDON

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 December 1898 · page 3

One of the sources of the great prosperity in the United State is the success of farming operation throughout the Republic. The value of the…

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THE Muswellbrook Chronicle O, sacred weapon, left for truth's defence, Sole dread of folly, vice and insolence, Reverent we touch thiee! but with honest zeal To rouse the henchman of the public weal Saturday, Dec. 17, 1898. The Wheat Harvest

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 December 1898 · page 2

It is to be hoped that it will be a long time before the metropolitan morning newspapers again delude their readers with erroneous estimates of the wheat…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 19 December 1898 · page 3

The continued drought has so parched the herbage in the dairying districts of the colony that the production of New South Wales butter has seriously dimmished. This morning the…

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Potatoes and Butter. Substantial Advances in Price. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 December 1898 · page 2

Potatoes to-day suddenly advanced advanced by £1 to 30s per ton. Butter advanced one penny; creamery now being 10d, and other grades…

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Sheep Without Wool

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 21 December 1898 · page 2

THE principal kind of meat consumed by the people of Arabia, both native and foreign, is the mutton of the Somali, or blackheaded sheep, and no…

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Steinweidel Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 21 December 1898 · page 4

Mr. J. I. Thompson, Agricultural Instructor, referring to Steinweidel wheat, says he thinks it is the coming variety for this colony, as he has…

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