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Farming & the land, 1909

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Monday 22 November 1909 · page 3

Hill, Clark, and Co., Ltd. report:-Wool catslogues for sales this week have been prepared as usual but buyers, being afraid the strike would interface with their sbipping arrangements, did…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

YESTERDAY, Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, & Co. wired us from Sydney, as follows:—"A meeting of woolbrookers decided to hold sales to-day, also on…

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Wool Sales in Sydney. Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

31,014 bales of wool from Queensland growers, which had been stuck up for some time owing to the strike, were of fered in Sydney this morning…

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The Wool Trade. Difficulties by the Way

The Scone Advocate · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 4

ThERE has been an absence of wool sales in the Sydney market since Wednesday, 10th inst., and until there is some reasonable hope of…

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Farm and Dairy Notes Testing Cows

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

There is to be said about this work:-There are certain seasons on the farm when the work is very rushing, and it seems about impossible to do any more…

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Plant Food Is the Farmer's Bank

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 2

Professor Roberts, an eminent American authority on agriculture, has expressed himself us follows:— The vast store of plant food is the…

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Visit to Hawkesbury College Letters to a Farmer. Viii

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 23 November 1909 · page 6

Dear Old Bak-blox Bill,—For the eighth and last time, so far as my recent visit to the H.A.C. is concerned, I take up my pen to write to you of impressions gained during my day at…

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Farmers at the Rural Camp School. an Interesting Meeting

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 24 November 1909 · page 8

On Saturday night, the organising officer, Mr. W. Roberts, B.A., invited the farmers, dairymen, factory managers, and other gentlemen who have received the Camp…

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The Wool Sales

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 3

At the wool sales, Buxton, Ronald, and Co., C. Balme and Co., Jacomb, Son, and Co. offered 6958 bales, a poor selection, including 1602 bales of New Zealand wool. There was a very large…

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Municipal Council. Straying Cattle in Singleton. Owners to be Prosecuted. The Post Office Accommodation. Council to Approach Postmaster-General

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 3

An ordinary meeting of the Singleton Municipal Council was held at the Council Chambers on Monday evening. The Mayor (Alderman J. W. B Waterhouse) presided, and there were also…

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Serious Bush Fires. Crops and Grass Destroyed

Singleton Argus · Thursday 25 November 1909 · page 4

A large area of country north-east of Denill quin wan swept by fire on Sunday, several thou sands of acres being devastated. The fire started In the reservoir paddock on Mundlwa, and as a…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 2

AT the Pastoral Finance Association's sale yesterday, the offerings included :— WWW/Belltrees, Scone, 60 bales at 15½d, [?]3 at 15d, 21 at 14d, 35 at 13¾d, 33 at…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 7

Pitt, Son, and Badgery, Ltd., report:- After a temporary dislocation of business. consequent on the coalminers' strike, wool sales were resumed, our catalogue prepared…

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Record Wool Prices

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 4

An uncertainty existed among wool buyers and sellers at the Sydney sales yesterday as to whether the sales will be continued next week. It was chiefly on this account that…

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Local and General News, Special Cattle Sale

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 4

Messrs. Higgens, Parkingson, and Co. auctioncers, announce by advertisement in this issue that on Tuesday. December 7, they will offer for sale by public auction, at the Muswellbrook yards,…

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Farm Produce Sales at Gresford

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 4

Messrs. Brooker and Rose, auctioneers of Gresford, intimate in this issue that on Monday afternoon next at three o'clock: they will hold an auction sale of farm, and…

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Dairying Around Scone. Milking Machine Boom

The Scone Advocate · Friday 26 November 1909 · page 2

MILKING MACHINE have caught on in the Scone district as the result of Mr. David Hall. Parkville, having proved them to be a thorough success. For the…

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Cattle Breeding

Singleton Argus · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 2

On the stock-breeding industry of the country the increased production of milk has exercised very considerable influence (says the English "Live Stock Journal"). Breeders of cattle have…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 3

Prescott, Ltd., report:—The Sydney selling price was reduced on Tuesday to 96s for finest quality. This figure, however, is loss than can be realised for export, and we have been able to make sales at…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 27 November 1909 · page 3

Schute, Bell and Co., Ltd., report:—Monday's sales passed off very satisfactorily indeed, the strike making no difference whatever in the extent of competition or in the range of values…

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