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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1906

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 5

Messrs. Schute, Bell and Co. report:—As was only to have been expected, supplies are now arriving on a scale which will tax the…

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The Farm and Dairy. Milk Fever

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 10

Mr. John Pottie, V.S., of Sydney, writes as follows:—"I read with some surprise some extracts from a lecture by Mr. Quirk of Berry. He states that the cause of…

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Duckenfield Dairy Company. Opening the New Factory

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 November 1906 · page 6

In the presence of a large and representative gathering of residents of the immediate locality, and from districts both up and down the Hunter River, and along the…

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Wool and Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 November 1906 · page 2

The wool receipts from the three depots for the week just closed amounted to 50,272 hales, being an increases of 16,464 bales on the figures for the corresponding week of…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 3

THE Woolbrokers' Association report:—CATALOGUES have now assumed, their normal proportions and during the…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 2

DALGETY and Co., Ltd., report: There has been a marked increase in the wool offerings during the past week, the daily average…

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Farm Judging

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 13 November 1906 · page 1

The judge appointed to make the awards in the "Herald's" farm competition does not think too highly of Barrington farms and…

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Cattle Sale at Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 4

Messrs H. York and Sons (in conjunction with Messrs Higgens, Parkinson, & Co.) announce that they will conduct an important sale of story cattle at Foster's Yards, Singleton, on Friday, at 10 o'clock…

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Latest News by Wire. Press Association. Sydney. a Butter Record

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 5

The North Cost Co-operative Company which has factories at Byron Bay, Lismore, and Murwillunib[?]h, has just established a record for the North Coast by manu…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 3

Greedy feeders swallow their food before it is sufficiently masticated, and the digestive organs are incapable of acting on the food in a crude state, and of extracting…

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Training Young Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 14 November 1906 · page 4

It needs to be remembered that the purpose of the rural camp school movement is not in any sense to give boys a training for farm life. The duration of the sessions is altogether too…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 November 1906 · page 2

Sehute, Bell. and Co. report, under date [?] instant— Notwithstanding that daily offerings [?] auction, are now up to the limit [?] broke [?] catalogue, so far any weakening tendency has been…

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Sheep Shearing Some Big Tallies

Singleton Argus · Thursday 15 November 1906 · page 3

Advices from Tabletop station, near Albury, state that on Tuesday 28 shearers shore 81438 sheep, an average of 186 per man. Mr E. Fern, the…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 2

A meeting of the provisional directors of the the Bowthorne Co-operative Butter Company was held on Thursday at the Factory Office, the following members…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 5

The Associated Woolbr[?]kers report under date 10th November:— Catalogues have now assumed their normed [?]ortions, and during the [?] week…

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Store Cattle Sale. Singleton

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 2

At Foster's yards this afternoon, Messers. H. York and Sons, in conjunction with Messrs. Higgens. Parkinson, and Co., conducted one of the most important and…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 2

Mill, Clark, and Co. report :—We brought forward a catalogue of 2,57.12 bales and have to report a clearance of 2,100 bales. The decline in values, which was reported…

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Mutton and Wheat Production In N.S. Wales

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 4

MR. W. E. ABBOTT writes to the Daily Telegraph:— Sir,—In your leader of yesterday on the " Meat Supplies of the…

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British Farmers in the Transvaal

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 16 November 1906 · page 3

Lord Elgin, replying to Lord Lovat in the House of Lords, evasively declined to give an assurance that the Government would specially safeguard the interests of…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 17 November 1906 · page 8

Schute Bell, and Co. report, under date 13th instant—Notwithstanding that daily offerings at auction are now up to the limit each broker can catalogue, so far any weakening tendency has been…

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