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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Store Cattle Sale

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

MR. ED. HIGGENS (for Hill, Clark, and Co.) announces that he will offer at auction, at the local sale yards, on Wednesday next, 14th instant, 450…

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Sheep Sales at Scone

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

MESSRS. Coruett and Simpson advertise in another part of this paper particulars of sheep sales to be held at Scone yards on Tuesday and Thursday…

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Opening of the New Butter Factory

Singleton Argus · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 4

Those interested are reminded that the new butter factory in Mary-street, the property of the. Singleton Central Cooperative Dairy Company, will be opened…

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The London Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 16

Messrs. J. N. Brunker and Son, auctioneers, have received a circular letter dated January 26th from the firm of Willans and Overbury, in London, anent the English wool market, from which we…

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Deterioration of Butter. Condemnation of Hand-Separators

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 5

This deterioration which has taken place in the quality of butter was the subject of a conference on Friday at Melbourne between the Minister for…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 March 1900 · page 3

There have been 42,623 bales catalogued, of which 36,627 bales have been sold, Americans buying the best lots of merions and crossbreds. The following prices were realised for the…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. a Rise in Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 March 1900 · page 3

The wholesale price of creamery butter was raised this morning to 9d per lb., and other grades proportionately…

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Sydney Wool Sales. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 2

THE Sydney wool sales opened to-day. The prices wars -5 to, 7½ per cent lower than they were a month ago…

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Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 4

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

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 March 1900 · page 3

The following prices were realised for the under—mentioned clips :—Newstead, 7¼d; Langwirra, 8[?]d, Billabong, 11d; Bynys, 11[?]d; Glenroy, Euglo, ll[?]d; Lake Cowal, 12d; Strathvean, 15¼d;…

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The Wool Market. London, Thursday afternoon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 3

The wool market is firm, and prices are hardening Americans are buying freely, and sales will close on the 24th instant…

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Our Singleton Letter. the New Singleton Butter Factory —A Successful Opening

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 4

Yesterday the newly-formed Singleton Central Co-operative Company brought into existence a second butter factory in Singleton and the opening was celebrated in the presence of about five…

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Sheep Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1900 · page 5

A meeting of the above Board was held on Wednesday last, Mr. R. T. Blaxland presiding; others present—Messrs. George Loder, P. J. C. McDouall. G. L. Lethbridge, and R. A. Hill…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1900 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—The first series of wool sales for the current year, which opened on the 16th January, closed on the 26th of that month. The quantities catalogued…

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COMMERCIAL. Muswellbrook Store Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 March 1900 · page 4

Edward Higgens (for Hill, Clark & Co.) reports having offered and sold on Wednesday last, the 14th inst., 500 head of cattle to a good attendance of buyers and spirited…

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The Farm & Garden. Tick Inoculation

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1900 · page 13

Dr. Tidswell, who proceeded to Queensland some time ago to test the efficacy of inoculation as a preventive against Tick Fever, (says the Co-operator) has informed the…

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Value of Clover Crops

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1900 · page 13

One means of increasing the amount of nitrogen in the soil, and of making some of the nitrogen already there available for grain crops, is by the growing of clover and similar…

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Dairy Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 March 1900 · page 13

When choosing butter, pat a knife into it if salt, and smell it when drawn out; if there is anything rancid or unpleasant, it is bad. Fresh butter ought to smell like a nosegay,…

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Butter in One Minute

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 20 March 1900 · page 4

The New England Dairying Company, Armidale, of which Messrs. R. Blaxland, and W. B. Higinbotham are the…

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The Crange Crop

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 20 March 1900 · page 2

There is undoubtly a great improvement in the appearance of the orchards of the district, and the prospects of the citrus crop, owing to the recent timely rains…

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