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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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The Wool Market

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

In the wool market there is spirited competition, and prices are firm…

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New Fodder Crops

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 29 September 1899 · page 4

Out of the many new fodder crops that have been introduced with great flourishes of seedsmen's trumpets very few have…

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Special Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2

MESSRS. Dawson and Rogers advertise a special cattle sale at Quirindi on the 7th October, when they will offer 170 head of mixed cattle…

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The Wool Season

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2

Shearing is now in full swing not only in this district but in the major portion of the colony, and whilst the returns from this district are net likely to show any diminution…

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London Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2

At the wool sales in London on Monday prices for all classes hartened, crossbreds reala[?]ing 5 per cent above the opening prices. This boom is p[?]s attributed to…

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The Queensland Wool Clip

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 11

The wool traffic on the railways for year ending 30th June last remained almost stationary, says the Queenslander, the decrease in the quantity trucked compared with 1897-98 being 115 tons, while the…

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Wool Carried on the Railways

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 10

The present season, so far as it has gone, has been a dieastrous one considered from the standpoint of providing traffic for the railways of the colony. Since July 1 last, the sheep stations, etc.,…

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Cattle Stealing Case. M'Donald Sentenced to Five Years

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 4

AT the Maitland Circuit Court, before Judge Cohen, on Thursday, Kenneth M'Donald, alias M'Lean (72), was charged with having, on the 22nd…

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Dairymen's Protective Association Ball. (From a Correspondent.)

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2

ALTHOUGH inclemency of weather prevented the Upper Hunter Dairymen's Association holding the picnic and sports commemoration meeting at…

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The Farmers' Demonstration

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 2

A MEETING of the Committee of the Muswellbrook Farmers' Association was held in the School of Arts, on Wednesday afternoon last, when it was…

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The Office and the Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 3

Just as" a straw best shows how the wind blows" so do the ordinary occurrences of every day life point to the trend of public affairs. Some time ago a few details brought to light the fact that a large number of young men were occupying the…

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Our Singleton Letter. the Dairying Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 September 1899 · page 3

By this time dairy farmers should be convinced that in Australia the dairying industry has made remarkable progress. "The wonderful strides that dairying has made" is so proverbial in all public references to the subject, that any…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 October 1899 · page 3

In the present series 186,806 bales have been catalogued and 128,823 bides have been sold. The prises of all o'asses of wool are easier, and there have been many withdrawals. For the clips…

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Sydney Markets. Wool Brokers Association's Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 3 October 1899 · page 5

Many of the buyers have been in Adelaide this week attending the opening sales there, and are now returning for the Sydney auctions of 9th to 12th October. Others are arriving from Europe by…

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Late News by Cable. London, Oct. 3. London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 3

The following prices have been obtained for fleece of the respective clips:—RST, 7[?]d, Pinterigs, 8[?]d; Wellshot, 11[?]d; Braem[?]r, 28[?]; Mount Duneed, 23½d. Prices generally are 5 per cent…

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U.H. Dairymen's Protective Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 4 October 1899 · page 2

THE first anniversary demonstration in connection with the abovenamed Association took place at Aberdeen, on Tuesday, under most favourable weather conditions, and…

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Export of Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 3

The mall steamer Rome, which left to-day, took 2,400 boxes of butter…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 2

The outlook in the country for the coming harvest and the promise of a big wheat crop have been a favourite theme in commercial circles, says the Daily Telegraph. Up to the present, however, no…

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The Co-operative Butter Company

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 4

A meeting of shareholders and others interested in the above object will be held in the Skating Rink on Tuesday next, at 2 o'clock sharp. The meeting will be…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 7 October 1899 · page 4

The Australasian Mortgage and Agerey Co., Ltd.; John Bridge and Co, Ltd.; Dalgty and Co. Ltd.; Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd.; Harrison, Jones, and Devlin…

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