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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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The Farm & garden. a Codlin Moth Parasite

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 August 1904 · page 12

A valuable article, by the Government Vegetable Pathologist, on the above subject, recently appeared in the "Agricultural Journal" of Victoria. Mr. M'Alpine's attention…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 August 1904 · page 5

W. Weddel and Co., in their annual review of the butter market, state that the serious deterioration of the quality of Australian butter is chiefly due to the improper use…

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The Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 August 1904 · page 5

The Canadian Minister for Agriculture, Mr. S. A. Fisher, states that the repair Led damage by rust to crops in the North-west is entirely untrue. Wheat-cutting has…

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Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 24 August 1904 · page 2

A ray of hope is dawning upon our wheatgrowers, who have been groaning under the low price of their staple for a long time past. There will be a…

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American Wheat Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 August 1904 · page 5

On the wheat market at Chicago yesterday prices for September delivery reacted to 1 dol. 8 c. (about 4s 6d) per bushel, but ral-lied at the close, when covering was…

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The Butter Market

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 August 1904 · page 6

W. Weddel and Co., in their annual review of tho butter market, state that the serious deterioration in the quality of Australian butter…

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The Butter Question

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 26 August 1904 · page 2

The inferior place, with the consequent low paces obtaining, which Australian butter occupies now in the London market has revived the vexed…

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Wheat Markets

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 August 1904 · page 3

The price of wheat has declined in all the American markets. The extreme break, amounting to 7½c. (about 3½d). occurred in Minneapolis…

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Butter Scones

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 3
Also in The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette

Take one pound of flour, two ounces of butter, half an ounce of cream of tartar, quarter ounce of carbonate of soda, and two ounces…

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White Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 3
Also in The Maitland Weekly Mercury

The objection to white cattle shown by, many Australian pastoralists may in some localities be founded on good reasons but it is extremely probable (says writer in…

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Wool

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 2

Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report under date 24th August:—Shearing is progressing favorably and without hitch in the early sheds, and it is expected that…

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Wheat for England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 5

The ship Invercargill cleared this after-noon for Falmouth, with 15,375 bags of wheat…

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Wool and Produce

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 2

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report under date 20th instant:— Wool—The attention of the wool trade is turning to the incoming clip, which is…

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The Butter Commission. More Startling Allegations

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 11

Allegations of a startling nature which throw some light on the mysterious disappearance of a Government butter brand were made to the Butter Commission in…

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The Farm and Garden. Artichokes for Cows

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 3

Mr. V. J. Doust (Weromin, writes to the "S. M. Heraid" as follows :-Some four years I had a big crok of white tuberous arti-chokes, and determined to test the value…

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The Farm & Garden. Artichokes for Cows

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 August 1904 · page 12

Mr. V. J. Doust (Werombi, writes to the "S.M. Herald" as follows:—Some four years I had a big crop of white tuberous artichokes, and determined to test the value…

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Wheat for Britain

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 29 August 1904 · page 3

Mr. Broomhall, one of the recognised authorities of the wheat market, in a letter to the "Times," writes that the wheat exports of India for three weeks amounted to 785,…

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What Are Cattle?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 30 August 1904 · page 3

A matter of great importance to those engaged in the slaughtering trade—involving a tax calculated at about [?]60,000 upon the slaughters throughout the State, had the…

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