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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

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The Farm & Garden. the Dressing of Seed Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 11

The dressing now most extensively employed for the pickling of wheat, with a view to the prevention of bunt or smut (says the Canterbury A. and P. Association Journal), is a…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 3

The fourth series of wool sales will be opened on July 2. The limit of bales to be offered is fixed at 350,000. The fifth series will be opened on September 7, when the limit will be 800,000 bales, and the…

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Losses of Sheep in Queensland

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 13 April 1901 · page 2

Now that the shearing tallies for 1900 are available (says Queensland co item[?]orary) some idea of the appalling losses of sheep from drought in the west is obtainable. As…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. the Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 3

The wholesale prices of butter in Sussex-street has been lowered by a penny per lb. all round, making the rate for choice creamery 10d…

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Cattle Drop Dead. a Strange Malady. (By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 3

FIFTY head of cattle out of a mob of 500 travelling from the-New England district to Dubbo, dropped dead near Gunnedah to-day…

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Letters to the Editor. Cattle Stealing and the First Offenders Act

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 3

SIR,—Great indignation is expressed in this and surrounding districts at the leniency shown to cattle stealers at the late Circuit Court held at last Maitland. The most of the proceedings was a huge…

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The Dairying Industry

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 16 April 1901 · page 3

Regarding the development of this industry in Australia, the London correspondent of the S.M. Herald gives some interesting information…

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Latest Telegrams. Sydney, Tuesday. Butter Down

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 April 1901 · page 2

THE wholesale price of butter was to-day lowered one penny per lb all round, making the rate for choice creamery butter 10d per lb…

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Molasses as Cattle Food

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 4

THE German Beet Root Sugar Works have an immense amount of molasses that cannot be worked up into sugar,…

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The "Smoko" Sheep Shearing Machine

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 8

Not many years back the idea of shearing sheep by machinery was laughed at as a fanciful impossibility, but in this marvellous age of progress there seems to be almost no…

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M'Dongall's Non-Poisonous Sheep Dip

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 5

If there is one question more than another of interest to this State it is the improvement of our staple product—wool. To effect an increase of even a quarter of a pound in…

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Government Agricultural Exhibits. The Experimental Farms

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 April 1901 · page 6

The large crowd which thronged the building where the exhibits from the Governmental farms were displayed told its own story of deep interest and the desire to…

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Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 9

A meeting of the committee of the Upper Hunter P. and A. Association was, pursuant to announcement,! held in the offices, School of Arts, on Saturday morning, for the purpose of settling all matters in relation…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 2

The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers report, under date 13th April, as follows:—Not withstanding the fact that the business of the past week has been somewhat…

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The Farm & Garden Should Wounds Be Sutured

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 April 1901 · page 6

Frohner incidentally discusses this question since he attributes death to the suturing of a large wound of the thigh. About noon on March 16 a horse was brought to the clinic…

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Unsuitable Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 April 1901 · page 3

At the police court to-day, Mr. Wilshire, S.M., made an order for the destruction of seven cows consigned to Darling Harbour for sale, on the grounds that the animals were old, emaciated, and unfit for…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 April 1901 · page 3

At the Antwerp wool sales 2063 bales of La Plata wool word offered, and 897 bnlos were Bold. There were numerous buyers. For merinos there was an advance of 5 centimes (½d). Crossbreds were…

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Sheep Board

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 2

A MEETING of the directors of the Sheep Board. was held at the Stock Office on Thursday afternoon, there being present Messrs R. T. Blaxland…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 3

The Antwerp wool sales have closed. 6455 bales of Lo Plata wool wore offered and 3720 wore sold. Biddings were animated, and the advance was fairly maintained. 564 bales of Australian wool were…

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Salt-Bush for Dairy Cows

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 April 1901 · page 12

Another virtue is to be credited to the suit-bush family. The salt-bushes have long been known to furnish valuable fodder for sheep; now they are being utilised for feeding dairy…

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