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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

704 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 11 of 36

Butter Cheaper

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1904 · page 3

The price of butter lowered by a halfpenny per lb all round to-day…

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Cattle Sale at Muswellbrook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 28 March 1904 · page 2

Edward Higgens, Parkinson, and Co. report having yarded about 800 cattle on Saturday last Local buyers were in fair attendance, but there was no outside competition. Market was lower for all…

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The Butter Market. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 29 March 1904 · page 2

BUTTER is cheaper, and choice qualities bring 8d per 1b, good 7½d, and dairy 7d…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 30 March 1904 · page 4

REPORT for week ending March 26:— Wool.—In the absence of auction sales matters continue very quiet in…

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A Sheep Competition. 200-Guinea Prize

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 March 1904 · page 2

SOME time ago Mr George P. Wilson, of Big Springs, and one of the vicepresidents of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral and Agricultural Association,…

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Farmers' and Sattlers' Association

Singleton Argus · Thursday 31 March 1904 · page 2

On Tuesday last, Mr John Perry, VicePresident of the above Association, addressed a well attended, meeting of farmers at Mather's Club House Hotel, and…

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Wool Traffic

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

Daring the wool season, which has now practically ended, 402,357 bales have been been carried on the railways of New South Wales, as against 415,499 last year—…

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The State Wheat Yield

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 2

THE Government Statistician, Mr T, A. Coghlan, has furnished to the Chief Secretary a return dealing with the wheat harvest, which show that the…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 2

ON Tuesday last Mr. John Perry, Vice President of the above Association, addressed a well attended meeting of farmers at Mather's Club House Hotel,…

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Bacteria for Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 3
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

For many years the U. S. A. Agricultural Department lias made it a rule to distribute gratuitously rare seeds for the use of farmers. It has…

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Flood in the Hunter. Many Farms Covered. Bolwarra and Louth Park Escape

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 4

The rain during the first four days of this week caused a slight fresh in the river on Thursday, but up till Thursday night there was no cause for alarm. About 5 o'clock…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Address by Mr John Perry

Singleton Argus · Saturday 2 April 1904 · page 2

IT had been announced that Mr John Perry, Vice-President of the above Association, would address the farmers of Singleton and district at the…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1904 · page 5

The Railway Commissioners state that wheat is still being held hack, and comparatively little is now being received at Darling Harbour…

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Farmers and Settlers Association

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 6 April 1904 · page 6

A number of farmers of tHE district who assisted in the formation of a branch of the Farmers and Settlors' Association last week met at the Club House Hotel on Tuesday,…

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Farmers' and Settlers' Association. Formation of a Singleton District Branch

Singleton Argus · Thursday 7 April 1904 · page 2

ON Tuesday a number of prominent farmers and settlers from Long Point, Glendon, Maison Dien, Sedgefield, and other places in the surrounding…

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Holding the Wheat

Singleton Argus · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 1

THE outbreak of hostilities in the Far East caused many persons to believe that there would be a boom rise in the price of whent, and having a good…

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Prufits of Bamb[?]. a Crop in Japan Is of Great Commercial Value

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 3

The bamboo proves of Japan are not only one of the most striking features of its landscape, but one of its most profitable plant cultures…

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The Farm and Garden. Bottle-raised Pigs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 6

Professor Pupin, of the Columbia University, was recently called to a farm where there was a sow which had given birth to a litted of seven pigs, and then had refused to own…

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The Farm & Garden. Bottle-baised Pigs

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 9 April 1904 · page 11

Professor Pupin of the Columbia University, was recently called to a farm where there was a sow which had given birth to a litter of seven pigs, and then had refused to own…

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