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Farming & the land, 1904

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Wool Sales. London, January 31

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 2

At the wool sales prices of merinos and fine crossbreds were fully maintained. Shabbier crossbreds wore rather dragging of salt. The following prices were realised for the…

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Farm Hands in Canada

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 13

The Commissioner of Emigration for Cana-da states that he is in receipt of information by cable from the Federal and Provincial Governments of Canada and from the city…

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Wool and Wheat

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 4

THE end of the wool season is practically at hand. This is shown by the decreasing number of bales carried each week by the Railway…

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The Season's Wheat Harvest

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 3

The Railway Commissioners estimate that by the end of the present wheat season 18,000,000 bushels will have arrived by rail. The Agricultural Department reports that the…

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The Wheat Harvest. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 2

TWENTY_FOUR thousand bags of wheat were secured at Darling Harbor today. Although over one million bags have been received, only half that…

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The Dairying Industry

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 2

Sir,—Will you kindly allow me space in your paper to draw the attention of those interested to the unsatisfactory way this industry is being worked in this district…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 10 February 1904 · page 4

REPORT for week ending Fobruary 6:— Wool.—The concluding sales of the weekly aeries were held during the…

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The Wheat Harvest. Quality of the Grain

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 February 1904 · page 1

THE Department of Agriculture has lately been conducting a number of analytical tests of the present season's wheat, the result of which will be of…

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The Latest. the Conflict in Progress. Advantage to Japan. Nine Russian Warships Disabled Three Russian Cruisers Reached. the Wheat Market Hardening. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 February 1904 · page 2

A private cable from China states that a naval engagement occurred between Russia and Japan on Monday and Tuesday, near Port Arthur…

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The Wheat Traffic

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 2

Since the 1st December last about 4,oo,ooo bushels of wheat (1,000,000 bags) have been received at Darling Harbor railway station from the country. The…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 8

"Winchcombe, Carson and Coy., report:—The feeling that war between Russia and Japan was imminent has caused a rather easier folding in the…

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The Farm and Garden. Potatoes for Pigs

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 3

When freshly dug, potatoes can be given to pigs as they are, but if they are at all old, it will be much better to cook them, as this gets rid of a certain poison with which old tubers become to a large…

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Success in Dairying

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 6

Referring to success or failure in dairying, Professor C.H. Eckels, of the Missouri Agricultural College says :—Success in dairying depends upon several factors, It can hardly be said that one of…

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The Farm & Garden. I'otatoer for rios

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 February 1904 · page 6

When freshly dug, potatoes can be given to pige as they are, but if they are at all old, it will be much better to cook them, as this gets rid of a certain poison with which old tubers become to a large…

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Bark Eating by Cattle

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 4

MR. W. M. FLEMING, M.L.A., writes to the Agricultural Gazette:—"The practice of bark eating by cattle, sheep, find especially horses, is by no means…

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Export of Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 3

The barque Lyderhorn left Sydney to-day for Falmouth for orders. She has 38,963 bags of wheat on board for the United Kingdom or the Continent…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 4

THE Australasian Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and…

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The Crops and the Weather

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 16 February 1904 · page 5

The rather severe spell of dry weather that is being experience in the district is having a serious effect on the late maize crops, and unless rain soon falls hundreds of acres will…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 17 February 1904 · page 4

REPORT for week ending February 6: — "Wool.—There hcve been no public auctions during the past week and a…

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Sheep Figures

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 February 1904 · page 4

"CENTRAL," a landholder in the Dandaloo district, contributes the following remarkable statement to the Herald.—" After the drought of 1899…

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