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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

1,046 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 35 of 53

The Wool Season

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 2

Wool is now arriving freely in Sydney. The wool stores once more present an animated appearance, and the wool scourers of Botany, are also getting into…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 2

Messrs, Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., report under date 5th September:— We held our opening sale of the season to-day. The offerings consisted mainly of…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 7

HARRISON, Jones and Devlin, Limited, submitted at auction on Tuesday a catalogue of 833 bales, two-thirds of which consisted of new season's clip…

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An Up-to-date Wool Store. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Friday 7 September 1906 · page 4

Amongst the Australasian woolbrookers none is more progressive than the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Founded…

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Wheat for Sheep

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 13

An interesting detail in the management Temora station (says a writer in the "Australian"), is the sheep-feeding experiments. And on the strength of these Mr…

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Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 13

Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:- Interest in wool circles centres mainly in the sales to be held in Sydney on the 4th, 5th and 6th instant, at which several new English and Continental buying houses…

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Market News. Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 7

The New Zealand Land and Mercantile Company report:—At the wool market yesterday competition wes good for all descriptions of greasier, and rates were quite equal to those of September last. The…

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An Up-to-date Wool Store. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Ltd., Sydney

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 4

Amongst the Australasian woolbiookers none is more progressive than the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company. Founded…

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Farm and Field. Home Grown Seeds

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 3

Farmers and gardeners frequently complain about the quality of vegetable and flower seeds, the germinating percentage very often not being…

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The Farm and Garden. Cows for Profit

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 13

What should be of the most importance to dairy farmers is to keep the right sort of cows. I have been keeping milk records lately, and find some cows leave a…

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Two Dairying Delusions

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 13

Someone says that if all the cows were [?] up to a high standard of production it would bring down the price of the products, said W.D. Hoard, of Wisconsin, at…

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Dry Farming in South Australia

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 8 September 1906 · page 6

At the present time when a great deal of attention has been directed towards the system of cultivation adopted in what ore termed the arid regions…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 September 1906 · page 4

The quantity of wool received by rail nt the thiee 1 dopote-DarlinR Hnrbour, Nowcnstle, find Morpetli -last week was 8328 baleB, a falling-cff of 11,170 bales us compared with tbo corresponding woo): of last year. The season's recoipts now reach 7,705…

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The Price of Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 September 1906 · page 4

The price of butter in Sydney rose on Thursday from' l1½d to 1st per pound Questioned by a press representative as to the cause, a commercial gentleman connected…

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[?] Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 September 1906 · page 7

[?]arians will doubtless hail with de[?] the advent of a new tuber, blue of [?] yellow of interior, which is about [?] on the market (says an…

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Muswellbrook Letter. Strange mortality Amongst Dairy, Stock

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 September 1906 · page 8

A local dairyman, Mr. Wilton, those business and land are situated at Ascot, about a mile from Muswellbrook, on the way to Kayuga, lost seven valuable cows in a peculiar…

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A Broke Farm. As About Tent Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 10 September 1906 · page 5

A farm on Wollombi Creek, at Broke, was the subject of an Equity suit, the hearing of which commenced to-day before Justice Street. the Plaintiff was Herbert Joseph…

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Wool and Wheat

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 11 September 1906 · page 2

The quantity of wool received by rail at the three depots—Darling Harbor, Newcastle, and Morpeth—last week was 8328 bales, a falling-off…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 11 September 1906 · page 4

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

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Latest Market News. Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 11 September 1906 · page 2

Messers Schute, Bell and Co, report:—Prices realised at last week's sales were on the whole very satisfactory although for the lower grades of greasy and for scoureds…

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