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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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Muswellbrook Store Cattle Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 3

Edward Higgins (for Hill, Clark, and Co.) reports: About 700 yarded to a good attendance of buyers, and the market shewed a good improvement on late rates. I sold 300…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 2

Sales were held at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie Place on Wednesday when the sales amounted to 5278 bales. The saleroom was crowded with buyers representing every…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day the market was firm. Princes were unchanged. The following prices were realised for fleece of the respective clips:—Acland, 11[?]d; Cubbie, 12[?]d; Cereena, 12[?]d; Kaputone,…

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Wool in the Upper Hunter

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 7

ALL things promise a great market for the wool clip of this season, and, thanks to good winter rains over a very considerable area of the colony,…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. a Big Butter Export

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 3

The mail steamer Arcadia, which sailed for London to-day took away 1708 boxes of butter for the English market…

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Sheep and Ticks. Difficulty Between Queensland and N.S Wales

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 6

A DIFFICULTY has arisen between New South Wales and Queensland with regard to sheep coming from the northern colony. There is what is…

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A Prize Dairy Farm. Lessons for Singleton Dairymen

Singleton Argus · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 2

DESCRIBING Mr John Goldie's dairy farm at Port. Fairy (which was awarded third prize, given by the proprietors of the Melbourne Leader)…

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London Wool Sales. a Great Rise in Prices. London. Sept 20

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 2

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

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The Farm & Garden. Liming Fruit Trees

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 23 September 1899 · page 14

The autumn is the right time to apply lime to fruit trees, and those who feel disposed to undertake tho slight amount of labour and trouble incurred will not find their efforts by…

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Muswellbrook Store Cattle Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 September 1899 · page 5

Edward Higgess (for Hill Clerk, and Co.) reports :— About 700 yarded—350 bullocks about 50 cows, balance young mixed cattle. The markets again showed a good improvement on late high…

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Wool Up Again

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 September 1899 · page 2

Some of our shepherd kings are jubilant. Wool is up again, both in London and in Sydney. Not for twenty years have such prices been…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 September 1899 · page 3

The boom in prices la attributed to the prospective scarcity of fino wool and the flourishing state of trade in England. Americans are buying medium crossbreds. The following prices were realised at…

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Wool Carried on the Railways

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 September 1899 · page 4

THE present season, so far as it has gone, has boen (says the Herald) a disastrous one considered from the standpoint of providing traffic for the…

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Farm Notes. Tomatoes and Celery. (From the Agricultural Gazette.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 September 1899 · page 4

MR. JOSEPH RICHARDS, who has charge of the garden at Neotsfield, sends the following notes, which will be of interest to many readers: —…

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Our Muswellbrook Letter. the Farmer Celebration and the Ministry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 September 1899 · page 5

—It is probable that some members of the Ministry will be invited to be present at the Farmers' Association's coming Annual Domonstration and Spring Fair. In 1897…

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Pea-nut Butter

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 September 1899 · page 2

IT is reported in an American journal that a new factory has just been put in operation in the city of Kokomo, Indiana, for the manufacture of batter…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 September 1899 · page 3

At the wool sales yesterday the following prices were realised:—Chennial, 21[?]l; A lilbar, 25[?]d; Mindooroo, 28d; Taylor, 15[?]d; Kilcummu, 13d Oondooroo,10[?]l; Polin, 9[?]l; Hull, 17[?]l; Tsoros…

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Wool From Western Australia

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 September 1899 · page 3

Te ship Desdemona, which left Fremantle on June 15, has arrived, bringing wool ex Karrakatta…

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Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 3

English wheat is firm, while foreign wheat shows a slight advance…

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Butter from Peanuts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 1

In Indiana a large factory has recently been erected for the manufacture of butter from peanuts. For more than a year Messrs. Lan Brothers, of that city,…

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