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Hunter Valley · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

1,455 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 6 of 73

Something Like Cattle. Australia Badly Beaten

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 2

If, as we are told by Mr Teece, England is "decaying," her cattle and other stock are certainly not; and besides, so an authority informus us, that there…

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Method of Payment for Cream Supplied to Butter Factories

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 2

The attention of the Department of Agriculture has been drawn by its dairy inspectors to the pernicious system of payment for cream adopted by some…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Market. Dalgety and Co. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 4

The wool position still remains favorable to sellers, who have been availing themselves to the fullest extent of the present brisk market for…

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Notes for Farm and Dairy. Grape Juice a the Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 6

Every season (says a lady correspondent in an exchange) I make a large amount of grape juice. I select perfectly ripe fruit. The riper and sweeter the grapes, the more…

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Essentials in Dairying

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 6

In the course of a a paper on dairying, read at a meeting of the Mount Remarkable branch of the South Australian Farmers' Bureau, Mr. J .O'Connell said that dairying…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 3

Prices realised were:—Mortlock, 81/2; Boolarrol, 91/2: Conoble, 91/2; Tarella, 91/2d; Tekamru, 101/2; Noorindoo, 101/2; Abunance, 101/2d; Dyr, 111/2d…

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Hunters Experimental Farm

Singleton Argus · Thursday 28 January 1909 · page 3

During the course of an address in reply to the toast of his health at the hospital carnival luncheon. West Maitland, on Tuesday, Mr J. Perry, Minister for…

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Store Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 4

Attention is directed to the advertisement in this issue notifying that Messrs. Bruxner and Cotton, auctioneers, of Tenterfield, in conjunction with Messrs. McPhie and Co., Toowoomba, will offer for…

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Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 5

The prevalence of fog again prevented the holding of the wool sales…

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Sydney Wool Market. SYDNEY

The Scone Advocate · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 7

At our sale to-day very keen competition prevailed from all sections of the trade, at prices showing a five per cent. decline as compared with…

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Topics of the Day. Experimental Dry Farming

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 3

The South Australian Department of Agriculture has set aside 600 acres at Loxton, on the Murray, for an experimental farm, to be worked largely on the dry…

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Experimental Farms

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 4

During his recent visit to Maitland, Mr. J. Perry, Minister of Agriculture, was not able to complete his inspection of the areas of land which have been offered the Government for the purpose of…

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The Proposed Experimental Farm

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 29 January 1909 · page 7

Residents of Muswellbrook as well as dwellers in other parts of the Hunter Valley have long marvelled why one of the most fertile districts in the State should be still…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 7

Hill Clark and Co. report :—We submitted a very representative catalogue of 2586 bales, and effected a clearance of 2390. In greasies the offerings were only of medium…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 7

Dalgety and Co., Limited, report:— Satisfactory clearances of the daily wool offerings continue to be effected under a general demand with brisk competition, the…

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An Important Customer. Wool for Japan

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 5

The latest report received by the Minister of 'Agricultures from Mr. J. B. Suttor, Trade Commissioner for New South Wales in the East, contains particulars of the…

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Fogs Prevent Wool Sales (By Cable). London

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 2

Heavy fogs have again prevented the holding of the London wool sales…

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Farm & Dairy. the Crem Test

Singleton Argus · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 5

From time to time revelations have been made which caused dairy farmers to believe that they were not receiving correct payments for their supplies to…

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Against Experimental Farms

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 9

At a recent meeting of the local Agricultural Society's committee, the chairmen of the meeting in the conference with Mr. Valder, expressed himself as opposed to…

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Farm and Field. News and Notes

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 30 January 1909 · page 12

The grain trade section of the Sydney Chamber of Commerce has fixed the f.a.q. standard at 61 1/2lb. per bushel. In Queensland the Minister of Lands has…

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