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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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State Wheat Yield. Second Record Output

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 4

Mr W.H. Hall, the ActingGovernment Statistician, has issued his estimate of the probable yield of wheat in New South Wales this…

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Bolt of a Wool Team. a Sensational Capsize

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

A carrier named Bergen had a sensational experience in the Goulburn district. He was descending a hill with an eight-horse team and…

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Cheapening the Production of Wheat. Wide Push "Sunshine" Harvester

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 3

CONSIDERABLE interest has been aroused in grain-growing districts by the announcement of the results of field trials of a large Push "Sunshine"…

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Wool Arrivals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 5

All arrivals of wool number 288,500 bales, Of these 125,000 have been forwarded direct to the manufacturers, and for the first series of sales of the year there remain available…

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The Wheat Strike

The Scone Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 2

AT Darling Island yesterday four vessels were waiting to load wheat. At three of them work was suspended because the men refused to work at…

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Estimation of Fat in Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 7

A new process, whcih is said to be more rapid and at the same time more precise than any other is thus described by the "Scientific American"—it is known as the…

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The Farm and Garden. the Separator and the Cream

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 7

The following directions for the care of cream at the farm are given by Professor Farrington, of the Wisconsin Experiment Station, for the guidance of persons not…

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The Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 3

The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday to dull competition. Fine sorts held their prices, but crossbreds were totally neglected, out of 1255 bales of La Plata wood 441…

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Sydney Wool Market Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 3

The New zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co. report:—At out wool sale yesterday the market strong, and the weakness recently quoted recovered, particularly for comebacks…

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Bush Fires. Enormous Destruction Farmers in Great Distress

Singleton Argus · Thursday 11 January 1906 · page 4

In the Forbes distract. 300 square miles of coutnry have been swept by fires. The scene at night is appalling, there being fears that the flames might…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 5

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 6th January:—The holiday recess is now at an end, auction sales resuming on the 8th instant,…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 3

The 'Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday, [?] a better disposition to buy was mani[?] Out of 2480 bales of La Plata wool [?] ed, 1905 were sold…

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Sydney Wool Sales. SYDNEY, Thursday. New Zealand L. & M. Agency Co. Report:—

The Scone Advocate · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 7

AT our wool sale yesterday, the market was strong, and the weakness recently quoted disappeared, particularly for comebacks and crossbreds…

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The Wheat Harvest. the Official Estimate. [?]Bushels to the Acre. Total of 20,500,000 BUSHELS

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 2

The official estimate of the probable yield of wheat for the present season has been completed, and Mr. W. H. Hall, the Acting…

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The Dry Weather and Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 12 January 1906 · page 3

Owing to the continued dry weather, daing operations have been considerably curviled throughout the district, and in some [?]stances where the returns under favourable…

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Butter "Faking." How It Is Done

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 13 January 1906 · page 12

The 'Agent-General (Mr. Taverner) r[?]utly informed the Premier (Mr. Bent) that a pamphlet had been issued by a firm in the butter trade, describing the processes of…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 15 January 1906 · page 6

When you go out to buy a cow, what do you look for, or, in other words, what kind of a cow meets your idea of a profitable one to purchase? Almost every farmer has the…

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Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 17 January 1906 · page 5

The London wool sales opened brisk. The market was unchanged…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 3

'At the wool sales yesterday Buxton, Ronald, and Company, Jacomb, Son, and Company, and Joseph Balme and Company offered 10,846 bales, comprising a representative…

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The Wool Sales. [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 18 January 1906 · page 2

The wool sales opened with a brisk competition at, unchanged prices…

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