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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

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The Profits of Dairying

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 November 1899 · page 8

WRITING on the big profits made from dairying in New Zealand, an exchange remarks:— "A typical case (says the Rangitikie correspondent of the Post)…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Accused Committed for Trial

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 November 1899 · page 4

At tho Cessnock Police Court on Saturday, bofore Messrs. G. F. Scott, P.M., and G, Brown and J. Doylo, J's.P., Ambrose Caban was charged with having, at Congewai, on or…

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Gunnedah Cattle Fatality

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1899 · page 4

THE Morce correspondent of the Maitland Mercury writes:—About the loss of over five hundred head of cattle at Gunnedah through eating the vari[?]…

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The Profits of Dairying

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 November 1899 · page 4

WRITING on the big profits made from dairying in New Zealand, an exchange remarks:—" A typical case (says the Rangitikie correspondent of…

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Warwick Farm Races

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 November 1899 · page 3

The above races [?] on saturday [?] R[?]:- Farm Stakes, [?] M. [?] Victory. [?]…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 November 1899 · page 3

The arrivals of wool for the next series of sales amount to 123.500 bales, of which 25,500 bales have been forwarded direct to manufacturers; 106,000 bales, including wool from last series, are…

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Merriwa Police Court, Wednesday, November 15. [Before Messrs. J. B. Bettington and J. H. Bettington, J's.P.] Alleged Sheep Stealing

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 22 November 1899 · page 4

THOMAS J, LAWLESS was summoned by the police on a charge of having in April last stolen two sheep, the propert of R. D. Barton…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. Accused Committed for Trial

Singleton Argus · Thursday 23 November 1899 · page 1

AT the Cessnock Police Court on Saturday, before Messrs G.F. Scott, P.M, and G. Brown and J. Doyle, J's.P, Ambrose Caban was charged…

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The Sew Wheat

The Scone Advocate · Friday 24 November 1899 · page 2

NOTWITHSTANDING the large purchases which have been made for South Africa, the price of wheat does not rise to a price which will remunerate…

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Wheat Crops at Wollombi

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 9

The prospects of a good yield in the Wollombi district arc promising. The frosts in October nipped the tips of the ears in some cuses, but the main part of the ear was not damaged, and is now filling…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 4

We are about due for the usual estimates of the forthcoming wheat harvest. There is probably no subject on which self-dubbed…

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Singleton Wheat Drop

Singleton Argus · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 4

It is estimated that the area, under wheat in the Singleton, district this year amounts to 3250 acres, as against [?]000 last year. Of this over 2000 acres have…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 25 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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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 8

The wool market continues very favourable to sellers, despite an occasional irregularity for certain descriptions. Unskirted and faulty wools Buffered a pronounced decline, bat nil other sorts may be…

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The Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association. Monthly Reading—"the Dairying Industry."

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 5

The eighteenth of the Buries of monthly readings initiated by the committee of the Hunter River Agricultural and Horticultural Association took place in the Town Hall, west Maitland, on Thursday…

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The Farm & Garden. Horses Not to Be Superseded

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 25 November 1899 · page 3

Some pessimists have prophesied of late that we are approaching a horseless age. The clam is made that the rapid increase in the use of mechanical means of locomotion,…

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The Late Moree Show. Unhoused Sheep. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate.)

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 28 November 1899 · page 2

SIR,—In consequence of some, of my sheep having been disqualified at the late Moree Show, and the injury that may thereby be done me, I desire to…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 29 November 1899 · page 3

A private cable states that the London wool sales show an all-round advance of 15 per cent…

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