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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1903

698 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 35

The Farm and Garden. Ensilage Feeding

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 6

It is sometimes claimed that ensilage will taint milk, says the Australasian. There is no reason why it should do so provided the ensilage has been properly saved and made…

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The farm & garden. Ensilage Feeding

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 3

It is sometimes claimed that ensilage will taint milk, says the Australasian. There is no reason why it should do so provided the ensilage has been properly saved and made…

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Farmers' Produce Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 7

Comparatively light supplies of produce were forward at the Farmers' Union Sales on Wednesday. With a fair attendance of the trade, sales were hardly as brisk as formerly, and in several cases…

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Failure of the Grape Crop The Wine Yield

Singleton Argus · Saturday 21 March 1903 · page 4

IN only one or two cases has there been a satisfactory yield in the Corowa vineries. The manager for Messrs Lindsman Bros., who crushed…

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Cattle Stealing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 24 March 1903 · page 3

The Paddington police recently received complaints of a wholesale system of cow stealing between Randwick and Long Bay. Senior-Constable McNalty and Constable Tom Malone, have traced ten cows to…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1903 · page 4

THE Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 25 March 1903 · page 3

Wool sales closed firm at the highest rates of the series…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 25 March 1903 · page 4

REPORT for week ending March 21:— Wool.—Auctions were held during the first three days of the past week…

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Melted Butter

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 March 1903 · page 6

The success of this sauce depends very much upon the flour being cooked with the butter before the liquid is added to it. Put an ounce of butter into a small saucepan…

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Stewed Sheep's Hearts

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 27 March 1903 · page 6

Required: Forcemeat, hearts, gravy, or brown sauce. Method.—Soak the hearts in cold water, cut away the pipes, and trim them nicely; fill the cavities with…

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The Farm and Garden. [?]Ing Experiments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 27 March 1903 · page 3

The Castlemaine correspondent of the Australian writers:—The spraying experiments for the suppression of the codlin moth, conducted here during the past two seasons by Mr.[?]…

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Bengalla Irrigation Farm a Pleasing Object Lesson (To the Editor of the Scone Advocate.)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 27 March 1903 · page 2

SIR,—One day last week, Mr. R. I. Keys, of Bengalla, Muswellbrook, invited me to visit his irrigation farm. Although the farm has only…

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Wool Market. Winghconbe, Carson , and Co.'s Report

Singleton Argus · Saturday 28 March 1903 · page 3

Our snip, on the 17th inst. places values on a level with the host rates of January. Competition was keen for all grades of merino wool, both secured and greasy wool…

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The Farm & Garden. Spraying Experiments

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 March 1903 · page 3

The Castlemaine correspondent of the Australasian writes:—The spraying experiments for the suppression of the codlin moth, conducted here during the past two seasons by Mr…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 1 April 1903 · page 4

REPORT for week ending March 28:— Wool.—During the past week sales by auction were confined to one…

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Bengalla Irrigation Farm. A Pleasing Object Lesson

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 1 April 1903 · page 4

A Scone resident writes to the Advocate as follows:— One day Inst week, Mr. R. T. Koys, of Bengalla, Muswellbrook,…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 3

In Sussex-street to-day one or two agents were inclined to quote ls per lb for choice creamery butter and 11½d for next grades, discarding the extra farthing altogether. Most firms quote 1s 1d for…

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Important safe of Dairy Fat, and Store Cattle

Singleton Argus · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 2

Attention is drawn to an advertisement in this issue of the ARGUS relating to a very important sale of dairy, fat, and store cattle on Saturday next at the railway…

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British Adulterated Butter Dill

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 3

In the House of Commons night the Adulteration of Butter Bill was read the second time, despite the objection of Mr. H. e. Kearley (Liberal, Devonport) to the exemption of Irish salt firkins. Mr. R…

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Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Twenty-first Annual Show. Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 2 April 1903 · page 2

The twenty-first annual exhibition of the Upper Hunter pastoral and Agricultural Association was opened on the Society's spacious and Well-appointed grounds to-day. The weather which was…

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