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Farming & the land, 1907

1,409 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 44 of 71

Wool and Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 August 1907 · page 3

Mr. J. B. Suttor, New South Wales Commissioner for Trade in the East, in the course of a report to the Minister of Mines and Agriculture sales that during 1906 Japan imported wool and…

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Leconfield Dairy Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 August 1907 · page 2

All the suppliers and sympathisers with the proposed Leconfield Co-operative Dairy Company are cordially invited to attend a public meeting to be held in the School of…

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Desperate Fight. Farmer and Japanese Cook

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 20 August 1907 · page 3

A tragic occurrence is reported from near Broome Hill, West Australia. On Friday night a farmer named S. W. Stone went to the farm of a neighbour Herbert, armed…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 August 1907 · page 7

Messrs. Schute, Bell, and Co. report:—Values are expected to be steady at the auction sales in this centre fixed for to-morrow. A fair quantity of new clip wool from the early districts will…

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The Farm and Dairy

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 August 1907 · page 8

The United department of Agricultrue has issued the following .suggestions to dairymen as a guide for the production of cream of good quality:…

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Cessnock Dairy Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 21 August 1907 · page 4

Meetings in connection with the Cossnock Dairy Company were hold at Wattagan Creek and Wollombi on Saturday evening. In each instance there was a fair attendance of dairy farmers. The…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 3

Dalgety & Company, limited, wool, grain & produce brokers, Sydney, re­port:— Owing to supplies for this month's…

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The Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 8

Harrison, Jones and Devlin, Ltd. submitted at action on Wednesday a catalogue of 901 bales of wool which included the first instalment of some…

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The Dairy Art of Butter Making. a Prize Essay. the Shed and Yards

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 5

Among the features of the recent winter dairy show at Manawatu, New Zealand, was a competition for a handsome cup presented by Messrs Lovell and…

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Wool Report. Goldsbrough, Mort, & Co., Report

The Scone Advocate · Friday 23 August 1907 · page 2

A very firm market ruled at the auction sales held last Wednesday. Competitions was keen for all good greasy and second parcels, at prices slightly…

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Sheep

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 7

Fine—Combing: Ram, 6—tooth or over, Henry Hall 1. Henry Rourke 2. Ram, not exceeding 4— tooth, Henry Hall. Ews 6—tooth or over. Henry Hall 1, Joseph Trip 2. Ewe not…

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Fat Cattle

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 7

Durham ox J.J. Graham. Pen of three bullocks, any bred. W. Baily 1 and 2. Pen of three fat steers any breed, under 3 years, W. Baily 1 J.J. Graham 2. Fattest bullock on…

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Fat Sheep

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 7

Fine— wooled wethers, D. Fibbins 1, Ben Cumming 2 Fine—woolled ewes, Henry Hall 1, T. Jackson 2 wethers coarse woolled, Lincolns or eicesters, D Fibbins 1 joseph Tripp 2 Ewes…

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Interstate Butter Conference

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 5

The date of the interstate conference between representative of different bodies concerned in the butter industry and shipping companies has been fixed for September 16…

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Bowthorne Butter Factory

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 4

At a meeting of the directors of the Bowthorne Butter Factory, held yesterday, it was unanimously decided to proceed forthwith with the erection of a new and up-to-date…

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Sheep. Fine Combing

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 6

Ram, 6-tooth or over, Henry Hull J, Henry Rourke 2. Rain, not exceeding 4-tooth, Henry Hall, J. Ewe, 6-tooth or over. Henry Hall J. Joseph Tripp 2. Ewe, not exceeding 4-tooth…

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Pat Stock. Fat Cattle

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 6

Durham ox, J. J. Graham. Steer, anv breed, under three years. It. H. Danger j. W. Bailey 2. Pen of three Durham bullocks, A. A. Dangar J. Pen of three bullocks, any breed, W. Balley…

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Cattle. Durhams or Shorthorns

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 6

Bull, three years and over, W. M. Waddell 1. Bull, 4-tooth, A. C- Picion I. T.M'Knight 2. Bull, 2-tooth,under A. C. Pieton 1. Bull calf, over six and under 12 months, F. J. R…

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High Prices for Cattle

Singleton Argus · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 4

Although there were 1183 cuttle yarded at Homebush on Thursday and many of them were of prime to prime heavy quality, the demand was…

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Wool and Japan

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 24 August 1907 · page 6

Mr. J.B. Sutter, New South Wales Commissioner for Trade in the East, in the course of a report to the Minister of Mines and Agriculture, sates that during 1906 Japan imported wool…

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