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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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The Rise in Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1899 · page 3

The cabin newS announcing a substantial rise in the price of wool in London has caused great jubilation amongst pastoralists generally. It it attributed to the prolonged drought in Australia ad to the…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 3 May 1899 · page 1

THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending 29th April, 1899, as follows:—Wool—In the absence of public…

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DAIRY INSPECTION.—The Government Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 3 May 1899 · page 6

Inspector (Mr. Rivett) has been examining the district dairies and dairy Lords during the past week, and most of thorn have passed through the ordeal satisfactorily, only six…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 May 1899 · page 3

Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Charles Balme and Co., and Jacomb, Son and Co., submitted 11,323 bales, of which 4338 were from New South Wales. The selection was a splendid one, especially…

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Rise in Peice of Wool. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 May 1899 · page 3

In reference to the great rise in wool in London, several wool firms in the city generally attributed it to the prelonged drought in Australia and the…

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Dairy Butler

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 May 1899 · page 2

When you want Good Dairy Butter, equal to factory, try E. J. Head, who always keeps a fresh supply…

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Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 May 1899 · page 3

The visible supply of wheat and flour east of the Rockies is, according to " Bradstreets," 47,258,000 bushels…

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Meeting of Sheep Directors

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 May 1899 · page 4

THE annual meeting of Sheep Directors was held in Scone on Monday last, 1st May, when there were present: Messrs B. Haydon (in the chair), H. L…

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Increase in the Price of Wool. What Sydney Merchants Say. a Piece of Good Fortune

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 May 1899 · page 4

On Wednesday, we received a cable to the effect that a the big sales which commenced in London on Tuesday, there was a general increase of from…

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Dairy Butter

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 2

When you want Good Dairy Butter equal to factory, try E. J. Head, who always keeps a fresh supply…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 3

The following prices' were realised:—Raincliff, 7[?]d; Malonga,, 10[?]d; Bundalear, 10[?] Balmoral, 10[?]d; Culloden, 11[?]d; Mimosa, 21[?]d; Burrendila, 22[?]d; Clifton, 21[?]d…

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Meeting of Sheep Directors

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 2

The annual meeting of Sheep Directors was held in Scone on Monday last, 1st May, when there were present Messrs. B. Haydon (in the chair) H. L. White. J. H. Doyle, W…

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Market News. Wheat

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 3

Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports under date 3rd May as follows:— Wheat continues much as reported last…

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London Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 2
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

The third series of colonial wool sales opened in London on Tuesday last, when catalogues comprising 11,323 bales, of which 4338 were from New South Wales, were…

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Metropolitan Notes. the Cattle of Trafalgir

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 4

In a Sydney cur[?]sity sheep is on view a copy of the London Times dated 6th November, 1805 wherein is published a despatch signed by "C. Collingwood," announcing the…

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London Wool Sales. London, May 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 2

Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Charles Balme and Co., and Jacomb, Son and Co., submitted 11,323 bales, of which 4338 were from New South Wales. The selection was a splendid one, especially…

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Our Farmyard Brethren

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 5

In the Queen, Mrs. Linn Lynton writes as follows, under the above title:— Can anything look more silly than a flock of goose, with necks extended, screeching and…

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An Australian in America. Bee Farms and Bee Factories. Chicago Meat Supply

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 May 1899 · page 9

Mr. W. S. Pender, of the firm of Pender Bros., Elgin-st., West Maitland, and who is one of the leading apiarists in the district, has been travelling in America for some few…

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State Butter Competition

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture has received from the judges a statement showing the points gained by each competitor in the above on the day the butter was…

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