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Farming & the land, 1904

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Exported Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 2 December 1904 · page 3

The mail steamer Orontes, sailing homewards to-morrow, takes away 10,000 boxes of butter, which will be supplemented at Melbourne by an additional 33,000 boxes…

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To Destroy Maggots in Sheep

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 8

This season sheepowners are having an unusual lot of trouble with the blow fly, and several remedies have recently been mentioned. Mr. Syd…

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Our Singleton Letter. Alleged Cattle Stealing

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 5

Thomas John Wells, John McTaggart, and George Baldwin were charged at the police Court this (Saturday) morning before Mr. A. T. Cochmne, J.P. with stealing in company one red bullock, the…

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The Wool Sales. London, Nov. 30

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 3

The sixth series of the wool sales closed with the market firm at the highest prices of the sales. The following prices were realised for the undermentioned clips:—…

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An American Poison Farm

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 3 December 1904 · page 6

Hitherto the United States has imported all the poisons used as drugs and the value of these imports come to £1,600,000 a year. Now, however…

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American Cotton Crop. London, Dec. 1

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 5 December 1904 · page 3

The estimate of the cotton crop of the United States made by the Government officials is 12,162,000 bales, being 909,000 beyond the previous record. The estimate…

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Large Shipment of Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 December 1904 · page 5

The mail steamer Moldavia, leaving Sydney on Saturday on route for London, takes away 8700 boxes of butter, which will be supplemented at Melbourne by an additional…

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Sydney Wool and Pvoduce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 7 December 1904 · page 1

Repout for week ending December 3:— "Wool.—-Another very satisfactory week's sales have to be reported, and…

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Alleged Cattle Stealing. at Howe's Valley. a Well-worked-up Case.—accused Committed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 7 December 1904 · page 6

At the police court, Singleton, yesterday. before Messrs. Robert Faulkner, C. W. Doyle, and J. C. Bowman, Js.P., four men. named John McTaggart, Thomas Wells,…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney. Baby Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 8 December 1904 · page 3

A woman named Elizabeth Smith was committed for trial to-day on a charge of having taken into her charge a child named Arthur Robert White to nurse and maintain…

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The Sheep Maggot Fly

The Scone Advocate · Friday 9 December 1904 · page 3

IN the last number of the Agricultural Gazette Mr. W. W. Foggatt the Government Entomologist deals with this pest of sheepowners at some…

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Wool and Wheat Traffic

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 2

It is satisfactory to be able to state that the wool traffic of the railway department not only shows no signs of falling off, but is increasing. For the week ending the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 2

The Associated Wool-brokers report under date 3rd instant:—Another very satisfactory week's sales have to be reported, and the market is still very strong, and…

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The Surplus Cotton Crop

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 5

Hankers in Texas are offering farmers facilities to hold back their cotton for a year if necessary…

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The Farm and Garden. Practical Hints

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 December 1904 · page 12

Farm horses can often go unshod, and save considerable time and money. It is sometimes necessary to shoe only the forefeet and leave the hinds ones bare…

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Local News. First Class Wool

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 13 December 1904 · page 2

We learn that Mr A. A. Danger, of Baroona, has topped the market at the Sydney wool sales in prices obtained for wool from his estates in all classes. This…

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Wool & Produce Sales. the Australian Mortgage, Land, and Finance Co, Ltd., report:—

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 December 1904 · page 3

For our sales this week we submitted 2430 bains, and have now to report sales of 1958 bales, our total sales for the season to date in Sydney…

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Fodder in Dairying

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 December 1904 · page 4

DAIRY farmers, who have made provision for the expected drying up of their pastures in the dry weather by having a supply of green fodder of…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Harrison, Jons, and Devlin Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 14 December 1904 · page 3

On Monday, 12th instant, we offered a catalogue of 5597 bales comprising splendid selection of greasy wools in excellent condition and forming the…

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The Farmer's Provision

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 December 1904 · page 3

An old country farmer dropped into his lawyer's office the other day with the object of making his last will and testament. Among his other instruction to his legal…

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