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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 2

Messrs. Winchcombe, Canon and Co., Ltd., report coder date 24th August :—The general topic of interest is the very beneficial rains which have recently fallen…

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The Sheep Breeders' Year Book

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 2

We have received from the author, Mr. A. H. Prince, Secretary of the N.S.W. Sheepbreeders' Association, a copy of the above publication for the current year. The…

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Electrical Sheep Pens. a Novel Invention

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 1
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Of recent years nearly every town is provided with an electric generating plant, and frequently the wires are strung along country roads from town…

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Letters to the Editor. the Railway Rates for Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 2

SIR,—I beg to unclose for your information, and for publication, copy of letter addressed to the Railway Commissioners, which has an important hearing on the future of this district, and I would ask you to…

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H. R. Farmers' Co-operative Co., Ltd. Half-yearly Meeting

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 5

The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the above company was held on Saturday afternoon in the offices, High-street. Mr. J. W. Birkenhead (chairman of directors) presided. The report and…

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Special List of Prizes. To be competed for only by adult freehold or tenant farmers occupying not more than 320 acres, including grazing land

Singleton Argus · Saturday 31 August 1901 · page 3

Brood mare suitable.for farming purposes, R. R. Carter. 3 entries Pair of plough horses (horses mares), Benjamin Fairhall. 4 entries…

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Cattle Branding

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 2

ARRANGEMENTS are new being made by the Department of Agriculture for the holding of an inter-State confereuce at an early date, to consider the…

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Manitoba Wheat

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 4

IN the annual report of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture just published the following remarks of Mr. F. B. Guthrie, F.C.S., the departmental…

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Local News. To Farmers

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 2

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

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Money in Dairying

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 4

IN various of the colony the dairying industry has been. taken [?] with bighly remunerative results, and Armidale is now "nibbling at the…

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To Our Dairymen

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 September 1901 · page 2

New that the Singleton dairymen are awaking to a true sense of their own importance, it ie advisablo they should know all the latest moves in connection with…

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The New Wool Rates

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 4 September 1901 · page 2

Concluding an article in the leading columns of to-day's S. M. Herald, the writer says:-But if that difficulty of possible overcrowding at Darling Harbour be met by an extended provision, the mereimportant…

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Wheat and Maize Production

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 September 1901 · page 4

Nearly all the wheat that can be spared by New South Wales this year has now being shipped, only a comparatively small quantity remaining to be dispatched. Since the beginning of the year the…

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Dairy Farmers' Union. Formation of a Branch at Hinton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 September 1901 · page 2

An adjourned meeting of dairymen was held in the Hinton School of Arts, last evening, for the purpose of considering the desirableness of forming a branch of the Dairy Farmers' Union in the district…

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To Farmers

Singleton Argus · Thursday 5 September 1901 · page 2

Butter and Eggs boutht in any quantity E. J. HEAD, grocer Singleton,*…

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Our Singleton Letter. a Chat on Dairy Herds

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 September 1901 · page 4

For anything made something is always needed to procure it from, and there is no sense in expecting something out of nothing. Some dairymen, however, seem to think that they can get their cows to produce…

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Store Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 4

Messrs H. Bailey and Son report that at their store cattle sale to-day, 728 head of mixed cattle wore sold, realising high prices. Two and a half year old streets…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 5

Mrssra. Harrison, Jones and Devlin report under date 5th September :—Business in the [?] wool market is continued entirely to private transactions in scoured mer[?] classes…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 September 1901 · page 5

Messrs. Dalgety and Company, Limited, report:—The fourth series of colonial wool sales, which opened on the 2nd instant, closed on the 26th, the following quantities having teen catalogued:—…

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