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Farming & the land, 1904

704 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 10 of 36

Wool Sales. London, March 12. I

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 2

At the wool sales course crossbreds were dearer, owing to purchases for America. There were large withdrawals of merinos. The following prices were realised for the…

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The Wool Sales. (By Cable.) London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 5

AT the wool sales yesterday there was good business, and good prices were maintained…

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The Farm and Garden. Testing Soils for Crops

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 6

The Bureau of Soils of the British Agricultural Department has made an exhaustive investigation of the chemistry of soils as related to the yield of crops, and has formed some…

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The Farm & Garden Testing Soils for Crops

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 12

The Bureau of Soils of the British Agricultural Department has made an exhaustive investigation of the chemistry of soils as related to the yield of crops, and has formed some…

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The Very Latest. London, Friday afternoon. a Corner in Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 5

The "Express" says that Armour's seven months' corner in May wheat yielded £500,000 profit…

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Farmers' Produce Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 19 March 1904 · page 5

Large supplies of produce came forward at the Farmers' Union sales this week, hay especially being largely represented. Although buyers were in large attendance, competition…

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Sheep Droving. Important to Stockowners

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 March 1904 · page 4

ON the application of Dr. Cullen (instructed by Messrs. Lee, Colquhoun, and Bassett, the High Court of Australia on Wednesday last granted a…

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The Wool Sales. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 24 March 1904 · page 3

AT the wool sales yesterday merinos were unchanged, crossbreds bringing the highest rates of the series, with occasional withdrawals of merinos…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 3

The wool snips closed last evening, with prices firm at the highest rates of the series…

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Electric Farming

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 25 March 1904 · page 3

Some Interesting particulars of recent experiments in the application of electricity to farming and horticulture are given in the current number of "The North…

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The Farm & Garden. Welsh Sheep

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 13

The characteristic of a pure Welsh sheep is that it shall possess on the one hand a type distinctly its own, identified by prominent eyes and nostrils, deep, fat, extended cheekbone…

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The Farm and Garden. Welsh Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 3

The characteristic of a pure Welsh sheep is that it shall possess on the one hand a type distinctly its own, identified by prominent eyes and nostrils, deep, flat, extended cheekbone,…

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The Butter Trade

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 2

That the Victorian Premier should have announced the possibility of bis appointing a Royal Commission for the purpose of throwing light…

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Australian Wool Trade

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 2

We have received from Messrs. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., their annual review of the Australian wool trade. The review, which has evidently been…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 2

The Associated Wool-brokers report under date 19th instant as follows:—The first of the monthly series of auctious was held during tbc past vreek, when 10,271 bales were offered, and the sales at…

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Farm Machines That Think

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 5

Human control is reduced to a minimum in all the latest examples of improved farm machinery. The machine performs its various…

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The Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 3
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

A simple method of determining the percentage of water in butter (according to the "Agricultural World") is to heat a known weight of the butter in a small saucer-shaped vessel…

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An American Poultry Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 26 March 1904 · page 3
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

One is often confronted with the momentous question, "Does poultry-farming pay?" The following is a complete answer to the question. The farm mentioned in but a type of…

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