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Farming & the land, 1905

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Suitable Varieties of Wheat

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 13
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Although it is rather too early to predict with my degree of certainty how Bobs will turn out, it at present appears, alter two years' trial, as if it will excel and eventually supplant other…

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Exportation of Wheat. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 4

Two shipments of wheat amounting to 50,000 bags, leave Sydney tomorrow. Other big shipments will immediately follow…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Winchcombe Carson and Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 7

At our opening sale of the new year we sold five thousand bales of wool by auction and privately. The market is brisk and December prices are well maintained for…

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The Farm and Garden. the Dairy Bull

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 6
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With regard to the size and prominence of tho milk veins, to which so much importance is attached by many judges, lauding American authorities assert that it is not an unvarying index of…

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Wool Sales Suspended. Buyers Refuse to Operate. Protest Against Charges

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 2

Some time back the oversea shipping companies agreed to make a primage charge of 6s 3d per cent. on all general cargo in consequence of the Sea Carriage…

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Pumpkins for Dairy Cows

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 14 January 1905 · page 6
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In a bulletin issued by the Pennsylvania Experimental Station the pumpkin is highly recommended as a food for dairy cows. Many farmers frequently feed pumpkins to dairy cattle with…

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Wool Sales to Be Resumed

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 16 January 1905 · page 3

Shipowners at a meeting to-day in connection with the suspension of wool sales, decided not to enforce the primage charge of 6s 3d per cent., until after March 31st. As…

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Australian Wool for Japan

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 2

JAPANESE woollen manufacturers are now turning attention to Australia, as a source from which to draw the raw material Mr. C. Asama and Mr. K. Masuda…

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Wool Sales Will Resume. [By Telegraph] Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 17 January 1905 · page 3

At a meeting of ship-owners today it was decided net to enforce the primage charge of Gs 3d per cent, until after March 31st. The result…

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Scone Cattle Saleyards Act

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 4

Among the private Acts passed in last session of the State Parliament was that which authorises the Munici pal Council of Scone to purchase land…

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London Wool Sales. Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report: Our London office cable that the January wool sales opened with a fair selection and a large attendance of buyers Competition was animated. Merino wools were…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 4

REPORT for week ending January 14:— Wool.—The second half of the selling season was successfully…

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The Very Latest. London, Tuesday afternoon. London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 5

The wool sales opened to-day strong at per to 5 pee cent. advance…

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THE Muswellbrook Chronicle O, sacred weapon, left for truth's defence Sole dread of folly, vice and insolence, Reverent we touch thee! but with honest zeal To rouse the henchman of the public weal. Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1905. Our Sydney Letter. The Wool Deadlock

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 18 January 1905 · page 2

THE deadlock in the wool trade was not regarded by all concerned as the unmixed calamity which the papers represented it. In the first place, not…

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Cattle Wanted

Singleton Argus · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 2

An advertisement elsewhere states that Messers H. York and Sons have a buyer to 1000 head, who will be pleased to hear from, those in a position to…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 3

At the wool sales yesterday Buxton, Ronald, find Company, Jacomb, Son, and Company, and Charles Balme and Company offered 6058 bales, comprising a…

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London Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 19 January 1905 · page 3

Wool in brisk sale The American buyers are operating freely…

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