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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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The Butter Commission

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 5

The two most important witnesses examined by the Federal Butter Commission just closed in sydney were Mr. O'Callaghan and "the Napoleon of the butter trade," Mr Meares…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 19 May 1905 · page 2

WINCHCOMBE, CARSON & Co, LTD., REPORT The May sales took place on Wednesday and Thursday. We offered a catalogue of 709 bales comprising for…

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Breeding Dairy Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 11

There are two theories before the world on this question: The theory of breeding for specific purpose and type, the theory of breeding for all purposes and type. The first…

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Wool and Produce

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 2

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report under date May 13th :— Wool.—Since our last report, dated 6th instant, the home wool market has gained…

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The Wool Sales. London, May 17

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday, the following prices were realised for the undermentioned clips:—Marrigal, 9 1/4d ; Mako, 10 1/2d: Parorangi, 12 [?]d: Moeraki, 12 3/4d; Clydevale, 13 [?]d…

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The Farm and Garden. Poultry Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 20 May 1905 · page 11

Some people have an idea that incubator stock are not so strong or healthy as those incubated by Nature's plan, but in an interview (says a poultry journal) with Mr. A. J…

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A Butter Business. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 3

In the District Court, Sydney, yesterday, before Judge Decker, Walter Clement Green, of Lochinvar, near West Maitland, shed the [?], as joint owners or constituents of the danish Milk and…

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Loans for Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 May 1905 · page 2

The readiness of some city money londers to help the man on the land with a loan of money, for a consideration, is illustrated by a recent case in a Melbourne law court, Farmer…

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Breeding Dairy Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 6

There are two theories before the world on this question : The theory of brooding for specific purpose and type the theory of breeding for all purposes and typo. The first…

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The Farm and Garden. Poultry Notes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 May 1905 · page 6

Some people have an idea that incubator stock are not so strong or healthy as these incubated by Nature's plan, bat in an interview (says a poultry journal) with Mr. A. J…

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Important Cattle Sale

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 May 1905 · page 2

Tommorrow at Foster's Yards. H. York and Sons will conduct an importaut sale of store cattle, [?] 1200 heed being catalogued. A [?]…

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Farmers' Produce Sales. Swan and Murray's Report

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 May 1905 · page 4

Exceptionally large supplies of produce were forward at our sales yesterday, to a representative attendance of buyers, competition being brisk throughout, and the prices realised were good. [?]ucerne hay…

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The Butter Contract

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 May 1905 · page 2

SHIPPERS of butter have had it all their own way in the new contract. Butter is to be curried from Sydney to London at 1s 10d per box, or…

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A Butter Business

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 10

In the District Court, Sydney, on Monday, before Judge Docker, Walter Clement Green, of Lochinvar, near West Maitland, sued defendants, as joint owners of constituents of the Danish Milk and…

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New Butter Shipping Contract

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 4

A NEW butter shipping contract has been entered into between the P.and O and Orient Companies on the one hand, and the leading New South Wales butter shippers on the other,…

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Wool and Produce

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 5

The Associated Wool-brokers report under date 20th inst:—The monthly auctious were resumed duriug the past week, when catalogues were small, but…

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A New Cattle Slaughtering Appliance

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 4

Appliances of various kinds have been invented from time to time for the slaughtering of cattle, says the London "Meat Trades Journal," and some of…

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Slaughter of Sheep at Homebush

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 2

A lamentatle daughter of sheep by dogs took place at the Homebush saleyards during Sunday night last. From whence the dogs came not clearly known, but…

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Special Cattle Sale. H. York and Sons Report

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 7

We yartled a large number of stock to-day, comprising all descriptions, to a fair attendance of buyers. The draft of "Nowendoc" bullocks were a…

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Leconfield Estate. the Site of a New Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 27 May 1905 · page 8

One of the best known estates on the Hunter River is Leconfield, for long the home of the Wyndham family, and rather picturesquely situated between two and three miles…

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