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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 February 1906 · page 5

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Co. report:—Our wool sales yesterday met with a very strong market, with competition, and a good general…

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Wool Sales. London. Feb. 5

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday prices realised were:—Maneroo 11d, Engle 11 1/4d, Dunumbral 11 3/8d, Bundaleer 12 1/8d, Congbool 14 1/4d, Warkon 21 3/8d, Wingadee 21 3/8d…

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Sydney Wool Market. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 2

For our seventeenth wool sale of the season on Wednesday we submitted a good catalogue, and sold by auction and privately 4809 bales. The market continues very firm…

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The Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 13

The following on preventible losses in connection with dairy herds is from the "Rural New Yorker":—"We can also class the horns with butter eaters and the boss…

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The Farm and Garden Seed Planting. [?] make [?]

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 10 February 1906 · page 13

Farm operations can only be [?] able by proper forethought and management. It is not true economy to decrease expenses by purchasing cheep agricultural implements…

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Farm and Dairy. Can You Improve the Milk of Cows?

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 6

Messrs. Pottie and Sons, of Sydney, write: —The question whether you can add to the value of a cow's milk by feeding so as to give a rich thick cream and thus increase…

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Appalling Confession. a Farmers Grimes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 8

On his daath-bed a respected farmer, aged sixty, near Lyons, Frances, asked to make a confession, not to a priest, but unconditionally to his own relatives…

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Want of Farm Economy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 4

"Many of the losses sustained by fanners and dairymen during the last drought" (said an old Queenslander recently on a railway journey) "were due to the carelessness,…

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Wide-awake Farmers

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 12 February 1906 · page 4

A few years ago travellers in the wheat-growing areas of Victoria were somewhat surprised to find the majority of the farmers staunch protestionists. The disadvantages of…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 13 February 1906 · page 3

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

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Local Irrigation Farms

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 14 February 1906 · page 2

DURING the past few days Mr. Henson (representing the Hunter River Water' and Sewerage Board) and Mr. Chapman (representing the Public Works…

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Sydney Wool Sales Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 15 February 1906 · page 3

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., report:—At our wool sales yesterday the market ruled very strong with the tendency of prices in sellers' favour. There was a good demand for…

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Wool end Wheat

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 2

During the week ending Saturday last [?]So bales of wool were received at Daring Harbor, Newcastle and Morpeth, being un increase of S[?] bales over the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 2

The Associated Woolbrokers report under date 10th February:- The market has ruled exceptionally strong throughout the past week, and the…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 16 February 1906 · page 2

HARRISON, Jones and Devlin, Limited report as follows:—On Monday we submitted a catalogue of 966 bales, comprising mostly remnants of clips…

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Great Shipment of Wool

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

The German steamer Hessen, which leaves on Tuesday for the Continent, takes away 20,000 bales of wool, being the record shipment for the season…

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Wheat Consignments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 5

A hundred and forty-five thousand bags of wheat arrived at Darling Harbour during this week…

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Wheat Rust Spores

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 5

Consul-General Guentber of Frankfort, Germany, reports that according to German papers the most important work with reference to the rust of cereals has…

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The Butter Market Sydney

Singleton Argus · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 4

Owning to increasing supplies coming to hand the price of butter to-day fell from 11d to 10½d per 1b. Large supplies are arriving from the North…

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Farm and Field. Keeping Records of Daily Cows

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 17 February 1906 · page 5

In keeping the record of the milk, we use a ruled sheet with a split column in which to record the morning and evening milking (writes a practical…

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