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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Muswellbrook Store Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 2

EDWARD HIGGENS (for Hill, Clark and Co.) reports about 1300 yarded on Saturday last to a good attendance of buyers, and in view of the protracted…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 3

The following rates have been realised for fleece of the respective clips:—Temete, 9d; Green Hill, 9¾d ; Oondooroo, 11¼d ; Moonbria, 13¼d ; Goonoo, 16¾d ; Plains, 17¼d ; Elderslie, 24½d…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 January 1900 · page 4

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

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Destruction of oil Sheep

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 2

On Tuesday Senior-Sergeant Meylan received a call to Abbey Green paddocks to look at three dead sheep. The officer was soon on the spot, and found the animals…

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London Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 3

The following prices have been received for the undermentioned clips:—Tenakoe, 9 7/8d; Tambo, 12 3/8d; Ulonga, 12½d; Cy, 15½d; Goonoo, 16½d; Darr, 26d; Clyde, 28 5/8d…

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A New [?] Crop

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 January 1900 · page 2

Mr Jackson, the manager of the Experimental Farm at Wollongbar, we learp, states that an offer has been made in London by a firm of brokers of high…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 2

THE Sydney Wool-selling Brohers Association report that sales were held on Tuesday at the Wool Exchange, Macquarie-place, whon the quantity…

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Corresponeence. Wheat Crops. (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate.)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 January 1900 · page 2

SIR,—Seeing that there is much speculation regarding the cause of the partial failure of this season's wheat crop, and that the cause is by many…

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The Farm & Garden. Branding Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 6

A method of branding cattle that will be distinctly visible and easily recognised in winter when the animals have long coats is much wanted, and many attempts have been…

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Wheat

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 2

We have been requested to direct attention to the advertisement of Messrs. Wincombe, Carton and Co., Ltd., which appears in another column, announcing that they are…

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The Wool Traffic

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 11

Although the bulk of wool for the present season has been carried to the seaport, a fair number of bales are still finding their nay to Sydney from the country districts. From…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 3
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A private cable from London states that the first series of sales closed to-day. As compared with the closing rates of the previous series. Merinos were 5 to 1 per cent. lower, fine crossbreds…

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Farmers' Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 2

THE annual meeting of the Muswellbrook Farmers' Association will be held in the School of Arts on Wednesday afternoon next, 31st instant, when the…

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Dehorn the Dairy Cow

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 January 1900 · page 6

The dehorning of cattle is a subject which may be said to be settled in the affirmative so far as the great dairy districts of Illinois, Iowa, and Minnesota are concerned. A…

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Cattle and Sheep Stealing in the Upper Hunter. Meeting of Stockowners at Stewarts Brook. Vigilence Committee Formed

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1900 · page 2

A MEETING of stockowners and others interested was held in the Stewarts Brook School of Arts on Saturday last, the object being to take some…

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Wheat at Half-a-Crown

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 30 January 1900 · page 4

WHEAT-GROWING at half-a-crown a bushel, it must bo confessed, is a very precarious business. Indeed it is doubtful if it can be made to pay where…

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Wool arid Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 31 January 1900 · page 4

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

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Bush Fires in Victoria. a Million Acres Devastated Damage Estimated at £200,000 Twenty Thousand Sheep Burned. Six Woolsheds Destroyed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 February 1900 · page 4

WARRNAMrOOl, district, Victoria, reports devastating bush fires, the worst the district has known for 50 years. The fires sprang up on…

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The Singleton Argus. Thursday, February 1St. [?] the Wine Crop

Singleton Argus · Thursday 1 February 1900 · page 2

UNDOUBTEDLY, the cultivation of the vine must extend in importance as one of the staple industries of the Hunter Valley districts. There is a great…

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