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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Poor Prices for Sheep

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 3

The sheep sales continued to-day, when the offerings comprised Tasmanian flock animals. It was anticipated that prices, which ruled high yesterday, would fall before the end of…

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Wool Ship Fires

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 3

Spontaneous combustion among the wool caused a fire in No. 5 hold or the New Zealand Shipping Company's steamer Rimutaka at London. The fire was not…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 26 June 1906 · page 4

THE Australian Mortgage, Land & Finance Co., Ltd., John Bridge & Co., Ltd., Dalgety & Co., Ltd., Goldsbrough, Mort and…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 4

REPORT for week ending June 23:— "Wool.—The winter series of auctions were resumed on Wednesday last,…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney, Tueaday. [?]

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 4

Messrs. Senate, Bell and Co. report; The past week has been a very quiet one in the local market. With the exception of the sales of a few passed-in lots of last week.,…

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Sydney Sheep Show. a Grand Display. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 5

The New South Wales Sheepbreeders Association opened their annual show on the Royal Agricultural Ground to-day. Never before has such a magnificent display of sheep…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 June 1906 · page 4

We offered a catalogue of 454 bales on Wednesday, the greater portion of which consisted of scoured wools. Included among the offerings wac a small parcel of early shorn wool…

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Sheep for the Sydney Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 June 1906 · page 7

Some lota of very fine rams from the farfamed Colloroy and Brindley Park sheds, in the Merriwa and Cassilis districts, passed through Muswellbrook for the sydney annual…

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The Sheep Show Sydney

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 June 1906 · page 2

The annual show of the Sheepbreeders Association. was held at the Royal Agricultural Ground to-day. The display of sheep was considered…

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Diseased Cattle. Berry Butcher Fined £40

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 June 1906 · page 4

At Sydney Water Police Court on Tuesday, Joseph Turner, of Berry, was proceeded against by Chief Veterinary Inspector S. T. D. Symons, of the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 2

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 23rd June:—The winter series of auctions were re­sumed on Wednesday last, when small…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 8

WINCHCOMBE, Carson, and Co., Ltd, report:—The wool market is without change, and business now is in a very narrow compass. Good values should…

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The Sheep Show. Magnificent Display

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 2

With the pastoral outlook brighter than it has been for many a long day, it is only a natural sequence that the twelfth annual show of New South Wales Sheep Breeders'…

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Diseased Cattle. Berry Butcher Fined £40

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 June 1906 · page 8

AT Sydney Water Police Court on Tuesday, Joseph Turner, of Berry, was proceeded against by Chief Veterinary Inspector S. T. D. Symons, of the…

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Record Price for Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 4

Yesterday in Sydney Messrs. Pitt, Son, and Badgery sold two lines of scoured wool, branded H and Co., Woodlands, Queensland, at 26½d per 1b. This is the record price…

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Sydney Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 2

The Sydney wool market is without change aud business now is in a very narrow compass. Good values could be realised for all descriptions of wool, but arrivals at the…

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Dairy Arm

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 30 June 1906 · page 3

Dairying is just a little off, and the teat-pullers are taking the opportunity of getting vehicles done up and painted, &c, for a fresh start…

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The Wool Clip. Encouraging Prospects

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 3 July 1906 · page 2

The Prospects of the coming wool season throughout the State are reported to bo, on the. whole, very oncouraging, the weather being…

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Dairying in New South Wales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 3 July 1906 · page 2

Mr. M. A. O'CALLAGHAN, dairy expert of the Agricultural Department, delivered a lecture on the subject of "Dairying in New South Wales "last…

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Latest News by Wire. Sydney, Stud Sheep Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 5 July 1906 · page 3

The stud sheep sales were resumed to-day, The merino ram, Baron, realised 425 guineas and a reserve, champion sire, Balbus, 380 guineas. A social rain, Young Result,…

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