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Farming & the land, 1899

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Tee Butter Season. Good Prices Anticipated

Singleton Argus · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 2

ADVICES received by the Victorian Agricultural Department from London state that everything points to satisfactory prices being realised in London…

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Farmer and Company

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 2
Also in Singleton Argus

FARMER AND COMPANY, limited, of Sydney, have pleasure in announcing that their Mr. E. G. Fletcher will visit Muswellbrook next Wednesday and…

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Farmers' Association Demonstration

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 2

THE full programme of the annual demonstration of the local Farmers' Association, to be held on the 12th October next, appears in our business…

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The Farm & Garden. POTATO-GROWING

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 2

The finest quality of potatoes can be grown on sandy soil, but the heaviest yield is usually obtained where there is considerable vegetable or alluvial deposit. Potatoes can be grown…

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Maintaining the Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 16 September 1899 · page 2

A writer in the Dakota Farmer gives this advice:— 1. Select the best cows in your herd, or that you can bay, to keep, and dispose of the…

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Baby Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 19 September 1899 · page 3

A woman named Amy Douglas has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment at the Old Bailey on a charge of conducting a baby farming establishment at Chingford…

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New Fodder Crops

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 September 1899 · page 2

Out of the many new redder crops that have been introduced with great flourishes of seedsmen's trumpets very few have been found worthy of general cultivation…

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An Important Movement. Farmers' and Settlers Association of N. S. W.

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 19 September 1899 · page 4

A MEETING was held at Scene on Tuesday last, for the purpose of considering the matter of forming a branch of the Farmers' and Settlers'…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 3

Wool sales have opened. Merinos wore low, but fine crossbreds sold at 7½ per cent. above July prices…

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A Reported Wheat Corner

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 3

It is reported from Chicago that the Armour-Weare Commission Company ia organising a corner in wheat…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 4

THE Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report for week ending 9th September, 1899, as follows:—Wool.—All interest is now centred…

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Farmer and Company

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 2

FARMER AND COMPANY, limited, of Sydney, have pleasure in announcing that their Mr. E. G. Fletcher will visit Muswellbrook next Wednesday and…

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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 thee! but with honest zeal To rouse the henchman of the public weal Wednesday, Sept. 20, 1899. Local and General News. Store Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 20 September 1899 · page 2

AT the local Municipal yards on Friday next, Mr. Edward Higgens (for Hill, Clark and Co.) will offer 430 head of good store cattle, and Mr…

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State Butter Show

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1899 · page 3

The Minister of Agriculture (Mr. Fegan) has approved of the second State Butter Show being held in Sydney this week. These competitions were inaugurated for the purpose of testing the…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1899 · page 3

The September series of wool sales opened yesterday. Messrs. Buxton, Ronald, and Co., Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Co., and Messrs. Charles Balme and Co. offered 11,866 bales, consisting…

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The Wool Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1899 · page 3

A well-known wool expert interviewed to-day, said that the prospects of the wool industry were the brightest for years, and that the recent rain had done an incalculable amount cf good…

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London Wool Sales. a Great Rise in Prices

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 21 September 1899 · page 3

Massrs. Dalgety and Co. telegraph frond Newcastle to-day:—Our London house cable as follows: September sales opened with fair selection. There was a large attendance of buyers,…

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Dairy Notes

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 22 September 1899 · page 2

The element which naturally appeals most to the sensibilities of a dairyman (says the "New Zealand Dairyman") is that encircled in the item "pounds…

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Wool and Produce Reports. WOOL

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 4

All interest is now centred in the sales to take place next week. On 19th inst. the 5th serious of London sales will open, and on the two following days about 9000 sales…

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