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Farming & the land, 1906

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Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 2

Dalgety and Company, Limited, wool, grain, and produce brokers, report:—The opening wool sales in the weekly series were held yesterday (Tuesday), when the catalogue offered was much smaller than…

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Singleton Police Court. TUESDAY,-October 2nd, 1906. (Before Mr S. Murphy, S.m.) Diseased Cattle

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 4

Sergeant Whitfield, as Inspector under the Cattle Slaughtering and Diseased Animials and Meat Act, applied for permission to condemn seven…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association

Singleton Argus · Thursday 4 October 1906 · page 3

The quarterly meeting of the Singleton branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was hold at the Club House Hotel on Tuesday…

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Sheep Smothered

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 2

On Sunday morning (says the Tamworth News) a flock of about 7000 travelling sheep were peacefully grazing in the bed of the Peel River close to the Court House,…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 2

A meeting of supplies to the Rowthorne Butter Factory and Refrigerating Works was held at the factory yesterday afternoon, when the report of the provisional directors was received and adopted. We…

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Consigning Deseased Cattle

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

German Verge was charged at the Maitland Police Court that he did on or about July 21, 1906, at Kempsey consign for sale one diseased…

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Sydney Wool Sales

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

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 29th September:— The regular wool-selling season (weekly series) commences during the coming…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 2

DALGETY and Company, Limited, report:—The opening wool sales in the weekly series were held on Tuesday, when the catalogues offered were…

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Five-mile Furrows. Farm Where Binding Twine Comes in £600 Lots

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 5 October 1906 · page 3

It gives one a vision of farming on the hugest scale to see nine five-mile teams move down the long rows of a 9,000-acre field, turning three…

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Sydney Wool Market

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 3

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., wool, grain, and produce brokers, report:-The opening wool sales in the weekly series were held yesterday (Tuesday), when…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 5

[?] the series which closed yesterday [?] sold to Home manufactures [?] to the Continent 38,600, and [?] United States 3000. 9000 bales…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory. Forming a Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 6

A meeting of the suppliers of the Bowthorne Butter Factory interested in the conversion of the works into a Co-operative Dairy Company was held at the factory on Thursday afternoon for tho purpose…

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London Wool Sales Newcastle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 5

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. report:—Our London office cables that the September wool sales closed from without further change, and prices are as high as at any period of this series. Superior merine and…

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Sydney Wool Market. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 6

Dalgety and Company, Limited, wool, grain, and preduce brokers, report:—The opening wool sales in the weekly series were held yesterday (Tuesday). when the catalegue offered was much smaller than…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

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

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report:—Our catalogues to-day comprised a fair selection of greasies from the Coonamble, Boggabri and Trangie districts. Scoureds…

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The Wool Sales [By Cable.] London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 5

The wool sales have closed firm a[?] the highest prices yet recorded for the season…

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Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 6 October 1906 · page 8

The character of fanning in changing rapidly. It is coming more and more to be an efficient. profitable, and attractive business. With here unit there, an exception in the…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 October 1906 · page 4

The wool receipts at the various depots for the past week represented 18,486 bales, being a decrease of 23,418 bales on the receipts for the same portion of last year. The…

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Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 October 1906 · page 7

[?] say to the farm boys don't [?] habit. While there [?] when there is some advantage [?] yet there is…

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Fox Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 8 October 1906 · page 6

There are ostrich farms, and establishments for the raising of millions of pigeons; there are great poultry plantations, where many acres of grain are reaped every year…

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