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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

861 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 12 of 44

Important to Dairymen

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 10 May 1901 · page 4

If you want to get all the cream from milk the milk fat must be started on its creaming way as soon as possible after it…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Grapes Packed in Sawdust

The Scone Advocate · Friday 10 May 1901 · page 4

THESE keep better in cold storage than packed in any other substance, unless it be cut cork, such as is used by European growers, when the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 2

After an interval of fully a month, auction sales of wool were resumed in Sydney on Tuesday last. Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co., report respecting their sale on…

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Karbon Vale and Timor Sheep

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 2

Messrs. R. W. and G E. White, of Harten Vale Timor Stations, were anniversary successful exhibitors of sheep at the Moree Show last week, taking two…

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Facts from a Farmer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 3

With a view to publication in the Melbourne Age a reporter recently called upon Mr. Finlay McPherson Clark, a retired farmer, resideng at Brock-street, Camperdown, Victoria, and interviewed him…

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Farmers' Produce Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 11 May 1901 · page 8

Good supplies of produce were forward at the West Maitland stiles on Wednesday last. Buyers were in strong force, and prices generally were very satisfactory. The quantity of bay forward was…

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Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1901 · page 3

MESSRS. Winchcombe, Carson, and Co. report, 7th May:—Notwithstanding the dissappointing opening of the London May sales, our market retains its buoyant…

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Important to Dairymen

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 14 May 1901 · page 4

If you want to get all the cream from milk the milk fat mush bp started on its creaming way as soon as possible after it comes from the cow, and…

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A Farmers' Matter

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 14 May 1901 · page 2

The Victorian Agricultural Department has decided to afford butter factory managers some useful instruction during the winter mouths. Mr…

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Proposed Butter Factory at Cassilis

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 15 May 1901 · page 1

A NUMBER of Cassilis residents assembled on Wednesday last to discuss the question of erecting a butter factory. Mr. F. D, McMaster was voted to the…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 16 May 1901 · page 3

The following prices were realised yesterday for the undermentioned clips:—Burbah, 7¼d; Otykaike Yanko, 7¼d; Bullamon, 8¼d; Gonn, 9¼d; Toorale, 19¼d…

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The Very Latest. Refugees Housed. Farms and Houses Burnt. Disloyalists Punished. The Hon. R. Philp's Opinion. [By Cable.] LONDON

Singleton Argus · Thursday 16 May 1901 · page 3

Four thousand refugees are now comfortably housed in Blomfontein and there is now very little distress. The refugees speak in high terms of…

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Deadly Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 17 May 1901 · page 4

"Which proves," said the landlady, concluding her discourse, "that there are other ways to kill a dog besides choking it with butter."…

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Wheat Culture

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 May 1901 · page 3

Wheat is perhaps the most valuable of all the cerealia, as it possesses qualities superior to any of the other species of grain. There are now at the present time…

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Farm arid Garden. Original Articles. the Germination of Seed

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 May 1901 · page 3

AS air is not a simple body, but is formed of oxygen and nitrogen it was for some time a subject of speculation whether both gases or only…

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Farms and Houses Burnt. London

The Scone Advocate · Friday 17 May 1901 · page 5

Four thousand refugees are now comfortably housed in Bloemfontein and there is now very little distress. The refuges speak iu high terms of…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 3

At the wool sales yesterday the following prices were realised for the undermentioned clips:— Brancepeth, 6d; Tenakol, Abundanace, 6½d; N.O.W., 8D, Uabba, 8½d; Bootra, 17½d; Clyde, 18½d…

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COMMERCIAL. Muswellbrook Store Cattle Market

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 6

Edward Higgens for Hill Clark & Co. reports having yarded and sold 1200 head on the 14th instant. Buyers were in good attendance but the bulk…

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Farm and Garden Notes. Shelter for Fowls During Winter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 6

Now that the winter is coming upon us, shelter for fowls is necessary. The house should be clean and light, the perches movable, and the run either partly or wholly…

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The Farm & Garden Shelter Fore Fowls During Winter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 May 1901 · page 11

Now that the winter is coming upon us, shelter for fowls is necessary. The house should be clean and light, the perches movable, and the run either party or wholly…

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