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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

861 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 18 of 44

The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 3

The market for the best parcels of wool is on par with the May sales. Medium unchanged…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 3

At the wool sales to-day the selection offered was better than that of yesterday. Opening prices were fully maintained. The following prices were realised for the undermentioned clips:—Grubben, 7½d;…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Relative Value of Forage Crops

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 3

HOR silage it is said that there is no crop superior to corn, and the larger growing varieties are recommended particularly. The…

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The Dairyman. How to Add One or Two Points to Your Test

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 July 1901 · page 6

There are very few farmers who don't lower their own test a point or two every week because they do not realise that the Babcock test can only give a…

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The Sydney Sheep Show

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 2

The annual show of the N.S.W. Sheep breeders' Association was brought to a conclusion on Saturday last, and was in every way most successful. The…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 3
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The following prices were realised at the wool sales for the undermentioned clips:—Clunic, 11d; Ardno, 8½d; Killingworth, 6¼d; Kallara, 6[?]d; Coomburas, 15[?]d; Waikoukou, 4[?]d; Hummocks, 7[?]; Homebush,…

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London Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 6

At at the wool sales on Wednesday evening there was fair competition, best parcels selling at par of May prices. Merinos were…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 3

In the wool sales crossbreds are unaltered; strong competition and good prices for merinos…

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The Percentage of Butter Fat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 6

The percentage of butter-fat that rai[?] tains is not dependent so much on the[?] food the cow cats as on the cow herself…

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London Wool Sales. London, July 3

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 5

At the July series of wool sales which opened on Tuesday, competition was dull, and prices showed a decline of from 5 to 10 per cent, compared with the closing rates of last series. Charles Balme and Co.,…

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Price of Wool. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday there was a fair competition, and best parcels were cleared at par of May prices. Medium qualities were unchanged…

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The Farm & [?] Poultry Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 6

All pens should be mated up this [?] Do not pen too many hens with the [?] and see that every bird in the penision [?] health…

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To Farmers

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 2

Butter and Eggs bought in any quantity. E. J. HEAD, Grocer, Singleton."…

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The Tea Crop. a Serious Falling Off. FOO-CHOW

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 July 1901 · page 2

THE Taiyuan sailed to-day with 8OO.OOOlb of tea for Australia. The first crop is 35 per cent, less than last, year's yield, and market…

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The Butter Standard

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 July 1901 · page 3

The Board of Agriculture has appointed a departmental committee to determine what deficiency of normal constituents, or what additional extraneous matter, shall render butter not genuine…

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Provison for Frozen Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1901 · page 3

The London and India Docks are creating storage, and the Royal Albert Docks are providing additional storage, equal to the accommodation Of 200,000 carcases of sheep…

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The Percentage of Butter Fat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1901 · page 5

Tho percentage of butter-fat that milk contains is not depends at so much on the kind of food the cow cats on the cow herself. The buttor-fat content of milk (writes an…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1901 · page 2

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report that during the past week there has been practically nothing doing in the market, the sheep breeders and ram sales having…

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Report on Northern Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 July 1901 · page 4

Sample of wheat were collected by Mr. John Perry, of Quirndi, a director of the Farmers, and Settlers' Association, and forwarded to Sydney to the Board of Exports, Department of Agriculture…

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