Australian newspapers
1803 – 1954
Old Local Papers
Every story
read free on Trove

These are historical newspapers. Some stories use language and express views that are offensive today.

← Farming & the land, all years

Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

1,409 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 66 of 71

Cattle Shot

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 2

Mr John Brewer, sen., Thalaba, informs us that he has had two valuable head of cattle shot during the past month, and thinks it was…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wheat Experiments

The Murrurundi Times and Liverpool Plains Gazette · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 3

The method of growing wheat in a dry district adopted by Mr. G. L. Sutton, manager of the Cowra Experimental Farm, is thus…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 5

At the London wool sales competition was keen, and the price for merinos is more regular…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Rise in Fat Cattle

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 8

The supply of cattle at the Homebush sales on Monday, totalling 800 head, proved to be well within the requirements of a large…

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Vegetable Fibre in Wool

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 5

[?] meeting of the trade committee on vege[?]ble fibre in wool announced that the replies [?] from the Calcutta balemakers, were [?]factory. A sub-committee has been…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Coastal Farmers' Co-op. Society

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 6 December 1907 · page 2

We have received the balance sheet for the past half year of the above society. The nett profits, £3730 15s 9d, are the largest yet…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Loss of Sheep

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 2

Noggabri Reserve seems to be a particularly fatal place for travelling stock and we (Namoi Independent) have yet another serious disaster to report…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day Chore was spirited competition for merinos, which constituted the hulk of the offerings…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →

Wool Top—making

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 4

It appears to [?]highly probable that during, the course of next year, a secondary industry of considerable magnitude will come into operation in Sydney in consequence of…

Continued on Trove, page 4 →

Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 7
Also in The Maitland Daily Mercury

Messrs. Hill, Clark, and Co. report:—We brought forward a catalogue of 2,300 bales, consisting of a very nico selection, mainly of fine and fairly fine quality wools, and fairly light in condition…

Continued on Trove, page 7 →

A New Wheat. Remarkable Discovery

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 3

A discovery that may ultimately revolutionise farming is announced by a group of Cambridge scientists. Very careful experiments have [?] cen made…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Fate of a Wheat Ship

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 8

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

Continued on Trove, page 8 →

Cattle Driving in Ireland. "Farcical Trials." London. Nov. 30

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 3

Mr. Justice Wright, in referring to the jury disagreeing in the cattle—drizing cases heard at Dublin in the teeth of uncontradicted evidence, remarked :—"It is useless…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Ensilage for Dairy Stock

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 12

At a meeting the other day of the Woodside, branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, Mr. A. Moore read on instructive paper on the making and use of…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 7 December 1907 · page 12

Recently Messrs Hardie and Gorman inaugurated their closer settlement, or Country Lands' Department with Mr. C. H. Gorman, so well and widely known throughout the State, in control. We are…

Continued on Trove, page 12 →

Cattle Driving Condemned

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 3

Messrs. William O'Brien and Timothy Realy strongly denounce cattle driving in Ireland…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 3

The wool sales are rather slow. The sale of merinos is unchanged…

Continued on Trove, page 3 →

Cattle Still Higher in Price

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 10 December 1907 · page 2

The exceptional rise in cattle that took place at the Homebush sales last Monday was well sustained on Thursday, when there…

Continued on Trove, page 2 →

Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 11 December 1907 · page 5

The London wool sales closed slack at about Into rates…

Continued on Trove, page 5 →