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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 November 1904 · page 3

The New Zealand Lean and Mercautile Agency Co. report:—We submitted a splendid selection at our sale yesterday. The market was very firm and in sellers' favour. There was strong American…

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Butter for London

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 5

The mail steamer Mecedonia left to-day enroute for London, with 12,990 boxes of butter…

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The Farm and Garden. Leg-weakness in Pou[?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 6

Hy leg-weakness is meant the condition of fowls which find it difficult to stand upon their legs. The trouble, which in bad cases many prevent the birds getting up even to…

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The Farm and Garden. Leg-weakness in Poultry

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 12 November 1904 · page 12

By leg-weakness is meant the condition of fowls which find it difficult to stand upon their legs. The trouble, which in bad cases may prevent the birds getting up even to…

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Physical Culture Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 14 November 1904 · page 3

A wealthy farmer in Germany is so enthusiastic over physical culture that he has started a physical culture farm, as it might be called. He has taken from various orphan asylums a…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 15 November 1904 · page 3

ALL previous prices have been put in the shade by the extreme figure of 17 1/4d, obtained last Wednesday for the Wooloowarre clip, from Gunning. In…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 16 November 1904 · page 5

The arrivals of wool number 91,000 bales Of these 14,500 have been forwarded to the manufacturers and there are available for the sixth series of sales 79.000…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 18 November 1904 · page 2

AT the continuation of the sales, on Tuesday, values ruled very firm, especially for moderately free to quite free descriptions of fleece, good pieces…

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Wool and Wheat on the Railway

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

The wool traffic on the railways for date the wool traffic on the railways for the current season is about 100,000 bales in excess of that for the corresponding…

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Prizes for Wheat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 1

THE Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales is offering four special prizes for wheat, to be com peted for at the forthcoming show at…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 2

Messrs. Harrison, Jones and Devlin report:—We submitted on Tuesday a splendid catalogue of 5015 bales, which included a remarkable display of greasy…

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Inferior Butter. How the Industry is Damaged

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 4

The discovery at the Government Cool Stores that 110 boxes of butter, which were brought to Melbourne from Sydney by the R.M.S. Macedonia,…

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Big Shipment of Butter. £103,000 Worth by the Macedonia

Singleton Argus · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 1

Over £100,000 worth of butter left Australia this week by the R.M.S. Macedonia for London. Of this, 766 tons was from Victoria and 306 tons…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Winchcombe Carson and Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 19 November 1904 · page 1

THE wool market continues very brisk in Sydney, and full values are being realised for all grades. Burry and seedy wools are selling somewhat…

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The Farm and Garden. Pigs on the Dairy Farm

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

On every dairy farm where the manufacture of butter or cheese is the principal method of utilising the milk, there is always a large quantity of skim milk or whey, for…

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Late Hews by Cable. London, Nov. 18. the Antwerp Wool Sales

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

The Antwerp wool sales which closed yesterday were fairly animated. Good qualities sold at from par to 5 centimes advance on sales of previous series…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 4

THE Australian Mortgage Land and Finance Co., Ltd., John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and…

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Sydney Wool Sales. John Bridge & Co's Report

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

For our sixth sale of the season we brought forward on Monday a catalogue of 3328 bales, which compared with that previously submitted, was…

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The Singleton Argus. Tuesday, November 22Nd, 1904. the Butter Industry

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

An increasingly important branch of our products and manufactures is that of the butter industry. During the last decade or so in this and other…

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A Great Wool Cargo. [By Telegraph.] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 22 November 1904 · page 2

The German steamer Meisen leaves for London to-morrow with a big carao of 13,000 bales of wool, and takes a further 6000 bales from…

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