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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 3

The wool market is brisk, and there is competition at full rates…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 3

The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company received the following cable message to-day. "Wool.—Sales proceeding briskly. Good attendance. Market very firm. Home and foreign…

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English Cattle Market. a Paterson Resident's Experiences

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 4

AN interesting letter has just been received from Mr J. W. Boydell, of Caergwyrle, Upper Paterson, a grazier well-known throughout the Hunter…

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Farming for Profit

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 4

THIS heading I am sure represents what all on the land are trying to do. Now, it is hard to describe new methods or new systems suitable to a…

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Good News for Farmers. Poultry for British Markets. High Prices Obtained for Exports

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 4

A FEW weeks ago a cable from London was received by the Board of Exports, reporting the sale of a first consignment of ducklings sent from Sydney…

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Dairy Butlor

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 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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Farmers' Opportunity

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 May 1899 · page 2

British and Gorman agriculturalists have learned that the value of barley for malting purposes is regulated more by its nitrogenous constituents than by anything…

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State Butter Competitions

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 10 May 1899 · page 4

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

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COMMERCIAL. London Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 10 May 1899 · page 3

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Neweastle, are in receipt of the following cable from their London office:—The May sales have opened with a large…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 10 May 1899 · page 1

THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending 6th May, 1899, as follows:—Wool.—The news of the opening of…

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To-day's News by Wire. Sydney. a Fall in Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 May 1899 · page 3

This morning the butter merchants in Sussex-street reduced the price of choice creamery butter to 10d per lb. and pasteurised to 10 [?]d. The reduction affects other grades proportionately…

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A New Zealand State Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 May 1899 · page 6

A special correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing about the visit of the Victorian Minister of Lands to New Zealand, where he hoped to learn how to deal with the unemployed, says, with…

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Tick and Tuberculosis. Deputation of South Coast Dairymen. Mr. Brunker's Reply. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 May 1899 · page 3

A deputation from the South Coast, to-day, interviewed the Colonial Secretary, and urged that practical dairy farmers should be represented upon the Commission to be appointed to inquire into the…

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Local News. Dairy Butter

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 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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Pasteurising of Butter

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 May 1899 · page 2

The Minister for Agriculture has received a report from the Mnypole Dairying Company of London, upon the value of pastourising in butter making. This…

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Price of Butter Down. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 May 1899 · page 2

THIS morning the butter merchants reduced the price of choice creamery to 10d, pasteurised to 10½d, and a penny reduction in Other grades…

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Tick and Tuberoulosis. a Deputation of Dairy Farmers. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 May 1899 · page 3

A DEPUTATION from the South Coast waited on Mr Brunker to-day to urge that a practical dairy farmer be represented upon the Commission to…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 May 1899 · page 3

At the London wool galas to-day the following were the average prices realised for the fleece portions of the clips named:—Ngapuek, 7 1/2d; Beltana, 7 1/2d; Grubben, 11d; Morambro, 1 1/2d;…

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Farmers' Opportunity

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 May 1899 · page 4

BRITISH ard German agriculturalists have learned that the value of barley for malting purposes is regulated more by its nitrogenous constituents than…

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Tick and Tuberculosis. Deputation of South Coast Dairymen

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 May 1899 · page 4

A DEPUTATION from the South Coast, on Wednesday, interviewed the Colonial; Secretary, and urged that practical dairy farmers should be…

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