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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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Telegraphic News. Wool Sales. Sydney

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 2

SCHUTE, Bell and Co. report: We held a splendid wool sale on Monday. The market advanced 2½ to 5 per cent. There was an excellent…

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Sensible Farming

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1907 · page 1

Thirty cows in Mr R. H. Harpley's dairy herd at Coolac, near Gundagai, yielded during October 1140½lbs butter, the factory cheque…

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Experimental Farms. What is Being Done. Crops, Sheep, and Pigs

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 4

THE experimental farms under the control of the Department of Apriculture are doing practical work, the benef[?]s of which are widely…

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State Wheat Yield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 5

The harvest returns have been issued by Mr. H. C. L. Anderson, Government Statistician. The reports just received from observers…

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The Wool Arrivals

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 5

There have arrived in London 274,413 bales of wool. Of these 125,000 have been forwarded direct to the manufactures, and with those left over from last series of sales…

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Sydney Wool Markets. Sydney, Tuesday

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 7

Messrs [?] Bell, and Co, report:—[?] baying house was fully represented in the auction room when [?] the weeklyseries at our sale to-day. From the outset, [?] was animated…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Market. Dalgety and Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 4

Since our last report there has been a general demand for all descriptions of the staple, and it is generally believed that the consumptive…

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Gaged Lige a Wild Beast. Swiss Farmer Imprisons His Daughter for Three Years

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 4

A WEALTHY farmer, named Thonney, and his wife, living in the village of Beguins, near Nyon, have been arrested for torturing their daughter…

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Farmers Emigrating to Ireland

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 4

For a century past the "moat distressful country" has been pouring out her manhood and womanhood to all parts of the world, and it has been…

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Farm Competitions

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 9 January 1907 · page 4

The competitions inaugurated by the pro-prietors of the "S. M. Herald" and "Sydney Mail," have been decided so far as the North Coast districts are concerned, and the awards have been published…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 3

The Antwerp wool sales opened yesterday. There was a good attendance. and competition was fairly animated, Compared with November prices, merinos were from par to…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Quarterly Meeting

Singleton Argus · Thursday 10 January 1907 · page 2

A quarterly meeting of the Singleton branch, of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held at Mather's Club House Hotel on Tuesday. Present:…

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To Keep Butter-Sweet

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

Here is the way the French people prepare the butter that is shipped to South America, were there is a great demand for French butter. After…

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State Wheat Yield

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 4

THE harvest returns have been issued by Mr. H. C L. Anderson, Government Statistician. The reports just received from…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 3

SCHUTE, Bell & Co. report under date 7th January Every buying house was fully represented in the auction room when we re-opened the weekly series at…

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Argentina as a Cattle Country

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

A gentleman who went out from Ireland to Argentina as a judge of beef stock at the great national show, spoke on his return in glowing terms…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., report under date 4th January:—

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 5

Since our last report there has been a general demand for all descriptions of the staple, and it is generally believed that the consumptive requirements at…

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London's Microbe Farm. New Development of Municipal Enterprise

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 4

The latest idea in municipal trading is in the direction of running a [?]farm and devoting the profits to the relief of rates. This…

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Pigs for Small Farmers

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

No other stock kept on the farm will make so good a return in so short a time as the pig, owing to the rapidity of increase and of maturity. A good…

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Farm Pars

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 11 January 1907 · page 2

Local dairy farmers are more hopeful just now for the success of the season, the recent rains and the cool weather being responsible…

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