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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

1,409 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 71

Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1907 · page 4

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

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Sydney Wool Market. Opening of Weekly Sales. Market Firm, Prices Good

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 1 October 1907 · page 2

The first of the regular weekly wool sales for the new season was held at the Royal Exchange yesterday afternoon. The offerings comprised 5632 sales. The buyers'…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 2 October 1907 · page 5

[?] sales bidding was spirited, and [?] The following prices were [?] the clips mentioned:—Mimosa, 231/2d; [?] Wainoni, [?] Tapa[?]…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 3 October 1907 · page 3

[?] auctions there was a good [?] all classes at full rates. The fol[?]es were realised for the clips [?].—Warrong, 13:d ; Sks, 15:d ;…

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The Wool Sales. (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Thursday 3 October 1907 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday full rates were maintained, and business was good…

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Durum Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 6

At a meeting of the Hawke Brunch of the South Australian Farmers.' Bureau the other day Mr. T. Feincler described his experience with a small parcel of Durum wheat, distributed by the…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 5

At the wool miles in London all sorts of wool was firm, with an upward tendency…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 7

Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co. report:—We opened the weekly series of the sales with a catalogue of 1470 bales, comprising such clips as BUN, Mackay/Cryon, JE/Mt…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 5

At the palps yesterday the prices realised for the clips mentioned were:—Aberdeen, 23[?]d: Sandown, 22[?] d ; Dillalah, 13 1/8d; Doon[?] Wellshot, 13d; Kynuna, 24 1/2d…

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Blow-fly on Sheep. To the Editor of the Times

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 2

Sir,—I have read with much interest Mr. J. G. Matheson's letter in " The Pastoralists' Review" of 15th August last, and my experience in dealing with the…

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The Farm and Dairy. Experiments with Potatoes

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 6

In 1905 experiments were made in England to test the relative value of sixty varieties of potatoes. Lost year a repetition of the trials was made. This interesting work was…

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Sydney Wool Market. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., report:— Sydney

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 2

We offered and sold to-day over 5000 bales; competition was keen and general, which resulted in excellent prices being obtained for greasy fleece. We reached…

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Wool and Produce Reports. The Australian Mo[?]tgage [?] and Finance Co., Limited. John Bridge and Co., Limited. [?]

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 1

Wool.—The weekly series of wool sales are to be inaugurated during the week, when catalogues aggregating about 34,000 bales will be submitted the selection…

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Drying off Dairy Cows

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 7

On this subject, in answer to a question, Mr. Gyton, well known as a judge in the dairy cattle sections at the shows of the…

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Feeding the Dairy Cow

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 6

A practical and successful dairyman gives in the "Jersey bulletin", his plan of feeding the cows. We make ensilage our main good, he says. It it unnecessary to enlarge upon the…

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Strychnine or Salts ? Death of a Farmer

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 5

After two adjournments, the inquest on the body of Henry Albert Tilling, a farmer, who died at his residence, near Wellington, on the 13th ultimo, has concluded. The…

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Underbank Farmers and Settlers' Association

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 8

A meeting of members of the above was held at Melbury on the 20th September. Present:—Messrs S. E. Whitehouse (in the chair), H…

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Preserving Farm-yard Manure

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 3

Overheating of farmyard manure is avoided by keping the mass well compressed. This is secured, according to a leaflet Issued by the Board of…

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Farm and Field. Care of Farm Machinery

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 3

Considering the money a farmer has to invest in agricultural machinery one would think there would be no need to draw attention to the necessity of taking…

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The Dairy Acidity in Cheese-making

The Scone Advocate · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 3

Since the Introduction of the acidimeter in cheese-making, Canadians have been developing from 1 to 1.2 per cent, acid on the curds—or, more correctly, in…

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