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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Wheat Crops and Frost

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 3
Also in Singleton Argus

THE Department of Agriculture is collecting information just now in connection with the damage to wheat crops by the late frosts during the…

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BUTTER v. MARGARINE

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 3

THE course of the London butter market will be watched with more than usual interest during the next few weeks. On January 1st the new…

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A Big Wheat Return

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

Messrs H. E. .L and V. White, of Belltrees, Scone, in a recent letter to the Department, refer to an enorment yield of wheat obtain by one of their tonant…

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Effects of the Drought. Great Loss of Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 4

FURTHER evidence concerning the dis astrous effects of the drought in the Bourke district was forthcoming on Thursday, when members of the sheep…

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The Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 2

The wool sales this year have opened on a somewhat lower level. Fine wools have suffered less than commoner sorts, but the drop in the…

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London Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 3

MESSRS. Dalgety and Company's London Circular, giving particulars of the 6th and closing series of colonial wool sales, for 1899, shows that the…

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Poetry. the Boy on the Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 6

Under a spreading apple tree The boy with bare feet stands; He has ten apples in him and Some more are in his hands—…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1900 · page 3

Messrs. Buxton and Ronald, Balms and Co., and Jacomb and Son offered catalogues aggregating 8471 bales, comprising a fair selection of merinos. There was a moderate attendance of buyers; but…

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The Wheat Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 2

"THE sooner Federation abolishes border custom houses the better will it be for the wheat-grower." At present, however, that individual can…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 3

AT the opening sales of the week, on Monday, there was certainly no improvement in prices, the tendency being towards a lower level for the great bulk of…

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The Wild Cattle of Cadzow Forest

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 January 1900 · page 2

Cadzow Forest, near Hamilton, in Lanarkshire, is notable, as all West of Scotland people are aware, for its wild cattle and old oaks. Some of the trees are of enormous…

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Store Cattle

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 2

ABOUT 1300 head of store cattle will be offered for sale at the local yards to-day be Messrs. Edward Higgens (Hill, Clark, and Co.),…

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Britain's Butter Bill

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 6

New South Wales still cuts a very small figure among the suppliers of Great Britain's batter (says Farm and Dairy). Victoria makes a better show, though even she does…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 4

The Australian Mertgage 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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Wool and the Transvaal

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 6

There is one feature of the South African, embroglio which does not seem to have occurred to many of those who have written on the subject. South Africa is a wool…

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Latest News by Cable. Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 3

Better spirit and strong competition…

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London Wool Market. London, Jan. 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 3

Messrs. Buxton and Ronald, Balme and Co., and Jacomb and Son offered catalogues aggregating 8471 bales, comprising a fair selection of merinos. There was a moderate attendance of buyers; but…

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The Farm & Garden. Keeping Milk-cans Clean

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 6

Experiments have shown that milk stored in sterilized cans will keep nearly twice as long as when kept in cans washed in the ordinary way. To clean a can thoroughly, or…

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The Wolf's Mouth CHAPTER V. Molly Moore of Glen Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 6

Jocelyn awoke the next morning after a night of wild dreams, and lay staring at the gray November day. She had walked up and down like a restless…

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