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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

951 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 43 of 48

Cattle Poisoned Wholesale. Loss of 500 HEAD

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 14 November 1899 · page 3

On Thursday last a herd of store bullocks numbering 849 head, in charge of Drover A. M. Champain, arrived at Burrell, about a mile and a…

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Upper Hunter Dairyman's Association

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 14 November 1899 · page 3

A GENERAL meeting of members of the abovenamed association was held at the School of Arts, Aberdeen, on Saturday afternoon, to-consider the…

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Muswellbrook Store Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 4

EDWARD HIGGENS (for Hill, Clark and Co) reports having sold 1200 bead to a good attendance of buyers. Competition was spirited. The…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 4

THE Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd.; John Bridge and Co., Ltd.; Dalgety nud Co, Ltd.; Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd.;…

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Our Sydney Letter. [FROm Our Correspondent]. The Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 2

THE most interesting spot in Sydney at the present moment is the Wool Exchange. It is crowded with eager buyers, and competition, usually very…

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Upper Hunter Dairymen's Protective Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 15 November 1899 · page 2

A GENERAL meeting of members of the abovenamed association was held at the School of Arts, Aberdeen, on Saturday afternoon, to consider whether the…

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Cattle Tick Ravages

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 November 1899 · page 2

THE Royal Commission on Diseases in Stock has obtained further information from Queensland with regard to Texas fever, caused by ticks. One…

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Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 2

MR. W. H. Cox, of Retreat, Wybong, left at this office on Wednesday last half a dozen heads of wheat, as a sample of an acre of " Sullivan's o…

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Butter Fob England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 3

Ono of the largest shipments of butter over taken from this pott was made by the R.M.S. Britannia to-day, when not fewer than 11,84,3 boxes were sent away for the English market…

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Cattle Tick Ravages

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 4

THE Royal Commission on Diseases in Stock has obtained further information from Queensland with regard to Texas fever, caused by ticks, One tle…

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The Farm & Garden. What Constitutes a Good Sheep

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 6

The value of good blood has been emphasized. Not all the animals belonging to any of the improved breeds, however, are possessed of a high degree of…

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New Butter-Making Machine

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 4

Local dairymen will be further interested in learning that additional successful exhibitions have been given in Sydney, at M'Lean Brothers and Rigg's establishment…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 3

The Australasian Mortgage and Agency co., Ltd.; John Bridge and Co., Ltd., Dalgety and Co., Ltd.; Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd., Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Ltd., Hill Clark, and Co., New Zealand…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 3

Messrs. Goldbrough, Morr, and Company Limited, to-day received the following cable from London : The wool market has an upward tendency. Home manufactured are fully employed and trade generally brisk…

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The Loss of Cattle at Gunnedah

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 5

Our Mores correspondent writes: About the terrible loss of over five hundred head of cattle at Gunnedah through eating the variegated thistle, a drover who has just returned over that stock route after…

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Found in the Wool

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 10

Last year Mr. Jerry Flynn, a former resident of Gulgong, was employed at Bullagreen station, near Gugandra, weighing wool. One day during the shearing his waistcoat, containing a gold watch,…

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The Advance in Wool Values

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 10

Perhaps the most remarkable feature in connection with the important advance in wool values during the past year (writes the Wool Markets and Sheep) ia the fact that it took place…

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Muswellbrook Farmers' Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 2

A MEETING of the Spoils Committee of the above-named Association was held at the School of Arts on Wednesday afternoon last. There were present—…

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Upper Hunter Dairymen's Protective Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 3

THE following report was road at the annual meeting of the abov[?]med Association, held on Saturday last:—First anuual [?]eport of the Upper Hunter…

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Farmers and the Roads

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 6

The following extracts from an article by a Florida farmer in one of the leading American journals seems to be worthy of consideration:- It is easily possible for farmers to keep…

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