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Farming & the land, 1907

1,409 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 64 of 71

Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 5

At wool sales, consignments were large, selections fine, wool good, and conditions unchanged…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 5

[?] the wools sales yesterday the following [?] were realised for the clips mentioned:—[?] 15 1/2d; Tuppal, 13[?]d; Wodgoewa, [?] Kerarbury, 12[?]d; Coongoola, 11 1/2d;…

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Bloomfield Sheep. Report From the Transvaal

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 2

Sometime ago, it will he remembered that Mr. Vincent Bossley, agent for the Transvaal Government, South Africa, while in this…

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A Dairy Farm Available

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 6

In to-day's issue of the "Mercury" the an announcement in the business [?] that a fine dairy farm in the vicinity of [?]wellbrook is available for lease for a[?]…

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A Hint to Dairymen

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 5

A writer in Hoad's Dairyman, America, says:—"I am beginning to question the economy of even cheap land for the pasturage of cows,…

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Wool and Produce Reports. The Australian Mo[?]tgage, Land and Finance Co. Limited. John Bridge and Co. Limited, Daigety and Co. Limited. Goldsbrough, Mort and Co. Limited [?] James and [?] Limited

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 29 November 1907 · page 5

Wool.—While the earlier sales of the past week were very disappointing to ownes, the market exhibited a better tone at the end, closing rates were with a [?]een…

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Milk—blended Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 12

In the discussion which took place in the House of Commons on the occasion of the third reading of the Butter Bill, on the question as to the allowance of 24 per cent. of water as moisture in…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 5

[?] the wool sales yesterday the following [?] were realised for the clips mentioned:—[?] Gear, 11 [?]; Warrana, 10d [?] Cambridge, 10[?]d; Maxwelton…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 6
Also in The Muswellbrook Chronicle

The C—operative Agency Company offered 1400 [?] The market for all good wools was about on a par with late rates. Mediums were a shade [?] and inferior a full half—penny lower…

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The Wool Sales. London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 4

At the wool sales yesterday prices were unchanged…

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India's Harvest. a Big Wheat Shortage

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 7

Mr. J. B. Suttor, Commercial Agent in the East, has forwarded to the Premier some statistics on the area and yield of certain crops in India for the current year, together with…

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Farmers' Hobbies

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 12

Speaking of farmers' hobbies at a meeting the other day of the Willunga branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, Mr. Binney said, according to the official…

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Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 12

More wholesale losses of sheep through poisonous weeds are reported from the Dubbo district. There were 79 applicants for one block of land (6-10 acres) in the Tamworth district…

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Fencing the Farm

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 12

At a recent meeting of the Koppio branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, Mr. Newell, speaking of fencing, said he thought every one taking up land…

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The Cessnock Co-operative Dairy Co., Ltd. Address by Mr. Gibson

Cessnock Express and Mining and Farming Representative · Saturday 30 November 1907 · page 2

Mr. T. M. Gibson, manager and secretary of the above company, addressed two meetings of dairy farmers on Saturday last at Wattagan, and at…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 December 1907 · page 7

[?] Hill, Clark, and Co. report:—We brought [?]a catalogne of 2,300 bales, consisting; of a [?]ce selection. mainly of fine and fairly fine [?] wools, and fairly light in condition…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 December 1907 · page 5

[?] the wool sales this afternoon there was and prices were [?] competition, and prices were unchanged, [?] yesterday's wool sales there was a good [?] full late rates, with occasional lost in…

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Cattle Driving in Ireland. Farcical Trlals. London Nov 30

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 December 1907 · page 5

Justice Wright, in referring to the disagreeing in the cattle-driving eases [?] in at Dublin in the teeth of uncontra[?] evidence, remarked —"It is useless…

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Fate of a Wheat Ship. Twelve Men Drowned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 2 December 1907 · page 5

The Government steamer Hinemoa, which arrived at the Bluff on Saturday had on board 15 castaways, rescued from The Depot, at Port Ross, Auckland Islands. They are the sole survivors of officers…

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