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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

1,455 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 52 of 73

Pall in Butter

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 5

Butter will be further reduced in price by 4s per cwt. from Monday next…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 6

Schute, Bell, and Company, Limited, report:—The Brisbane sales passed off very satisfactorily last week, high prices being secured for greasy suitable for America, and…

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"Antwerp Wool, Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 5

The Antwerp wool sales have closed. Crossbreds showed an advance of 10 per cent. over July rates. 4221 bales of La Plata wool were offered. and 2093 were…

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Advertising Our Wheat Lands

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 3

Under the above heading the special correspondent in London of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph" wrote on July 16:—The high qualities and wide expanse…

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Homebush Stock Sales. the Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd: Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 2

Heavy supply of 70,000 sheep and lambs forward, representing all qualities. In spite of heavy yardings values were only slightly easier than Monday's good rates. 1312 cattle…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Winchcombe, Carson & Co. REPORT

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 9

We offered on Tuesday a catalogue representative of the early shearing districts, and comprising many notable clips, in some instances the offerings…

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Testing Cream. Payment by Estimated Butter. How Tests May Vary

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 2

A question which interests all dairy farmers, and which comparatively few thoroughly understand, is the system followed by butter factory companies of…

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Farm and Dairy Notes. the Art of Manuring

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 10

The art of manuring consists in provid-ing. by the application of immures chosen, for the presence in the soil of all the prin-cipal folds of the plant in sufficient…

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Information for Farmers

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 7

SOME months ago the Department of Agriculture issued "Farmers' Bulletins " No. 6 and No. 8, dealing with "Silos and Silage" and "Paspalum dilatatum,"…

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A Dairywoman's Fortune. Romantic Story From Bathurst

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 8

After twenty—eight years of incessant toil Mrs. J. H. Berney, a well—known Bathurst dairywoman, will, on providing proofs, which she says she is certain she can…

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The Farm Waggon

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 10

The farm waggon, before painting should be cleanly washed and [?] to remove all roughness. Every bolt and rivet should be looked after to see that they are…

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Hunter River Farms

Singleton Argus · Saturday 18 September 1909 · page 4

An opportunity to secure farm lands in the famous Hunter River Valley is one that very seldom presents itself nowadays, and consequently an…

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Travelling Cattle

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 20 September 1909 · page 2

A mob of cattle, comprising about 800 head, belonging to Belltrees Station, are passing through the Maitland district just now on the way to Belltrees,…

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Wool & Produce Sales

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 21 September 1909 · 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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Fall in Butter. (By Telegraph). Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 21 September 1909 · page 2

The wholesale price of butter was re duced 4/- a cwt in Sydney this morn ing, making superfine 108/-, with other grades in proportion…

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Tuberculosis in Cattle. Danger in Mixed Milk London, Sept. 20

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 September 1909 · page 5

One thousand delegates are attending one international Veterinary Congress at The Hague. Mr. G. H. Knibbs, Commonwealth statistician, represented Australia…

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British Lads for Australian Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 21 September 1909 · page 4

Dr. Richard Arthur, M.L.A., President of the Immigration League of Australasia, who has recently returned from England, formed while there a strong committee in London for the purpose of…

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Wool Shipments

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 September 1909 · page 5

Three German steamers will be leaving Sydney within the next couple of days. They take away 15,000 bales of wool for the Continent…

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Pastoral, 'And Stock Protection Board

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 22 September 1909 · page 7

Sir.—There Is m lot of mystery surrounding the duties, doings, and benefits of the above board to the stock taxpayer. The only thing that is clear to him is that he…

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Sydney Wool and Produce Reports

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 22 September 1909 · page 1

FOR week ending September 18, 1909: Wool.—A record offering for a three days' series was made at the Sydney wool sales during the past week, viz,…

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