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Farming & the land, 1910

1,512 stories in Hunter Valley's papers · page 62 of 76

' Sydney Wool Market. '

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1910 · page 4

Sehute, Rell and Co, Lt. report :— ood quality wools continue to co amand general, and a times, excited competition, buyers being evidently anxious to secure any lines in free condition and…

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Australian Pastoral Company. Extending Its Holdings. London, Oct. 18

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1910 · page 5

The Australian Pastoral Company proposes to issue an additional £300,000 of capital, ranking with the existing consolidated shares. The new capital will be devoted to acquiring 66,000 acres…

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The Farm and Dairy. Phenomenal Maize Yield

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1910 · page 3

The story of my 226 bushels an acre of corn can be told in a few, words (writes J.F.Batts in the "American Agr . culturist.") It centres around good land…

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Farmer and Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Wednesday 19 October 1910 · page 5

The report, of Farmer and Co., Limited, of Sydney and London, shows a credit to profit and loss of £41,844. A further dividend at the rate of 4 per cent, is recommended, £5000 is…

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Dungog Co-op. Butter Factory, Ltd. Report

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 2

The supply for the period ending October 15th has been 14 tons 14cwt. 73lbs. of butter, for which suppliers are being paid cheques amounting to…

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Homebush Sales. Harrison, Jones & Devlin's Report Sheep

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 3

About 40,000 sheep and lambs were penned, largely comprising good useful trade merino wethers, a number of prime and a large proportion of ewes. Shorn…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Sydney

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 4

The New [?] and Mer[?] Agency Co. report :—At our wool sales yesterday there was excellent competition for all good and medium wools at best rates of the week. Inferior and…

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Immigrants for Australia. Youthful Farm Hands

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 6

The R.M.S. Orsova, which arrived at Fremantle on Tuesday, brought out a large number of immigrants for the various States. Among those for this State were…

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Correspondence. Dairy Returns. (To The Editor of the Scone Advocate)

The Scone Advocate · Friday 21 October 1910 · page 3

SIR,—Having met the frontal attack on the above subject, I find in your issue of the 18th inst., a rear action developed by Mr. Abbott…

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Good Farm Butter

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 11

The following observations on the subject of dairy butter are taken from the New York "Country Gentleman," and were supplied to that journal by Mr. W. H…

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Australian Pastoral Company

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 5

A correspondent to the "Financial Times" states that the Australian Pastoral Company has been earning 13½ per cent., whereas the directors propose to purchase the…

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The Butter Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 8

Prescott, Limited, report:—The market was reduced on Monday to 105/ for first grade. As far as the local trade is concerned, there is no change to report, the…

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Fat Sheep Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 8

Messrs. Pitt, Son and Badgery, Ltd., Sydney, reported on Tuesday evening: Glebe Island abbattoirs strike ended to-day. There must be a big rise in the fat sheep market…

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A Cattle Lifting Incident

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 14

In his recent book. "Pilgrimages to Old Homes." Mr. Fletcher Moss tells the following story of the old cattle lifting days on the Border:—Once a cattle receiver…

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Sydney Wool Market

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 8

Hill, Clark, and Co., Ltd., report:—At our sale on Tuesday we offered a fairsized catalogue of wools from the west, north, and north-west. While no very high…

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Homebush Stock Sales. the Pastoral Finance Association Ltd. Report

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 2

We have pleasure in advising that the friction existing between the butchers and slaughtermen has been settled. At Thursday's sales about 50,000…

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Branding Seamen. Protest Against Strange Practice. "Marked Like Sheep."

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 6

One of the grievances aired by a deputation of the Sailors' Union received by Mr Buxton at the Board of Trade offices on Thursday (said "Lloyd's…

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Farm & Dairy. Orchard Cum Pigs

Singleton Argus · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 2

From Mudura a correspondent writes to a Southern exchange as follows:—"The sum of £20 sounds an impossible figure for the railway freight on the produce…

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Romneys at the Sydney Sheep Show. a Remarkable Prize-winning Feat

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 3

At the recent Sydney Sheep Show, Mr. S. S. Hunt, Evans' Plains, Bathurst, performed the noteworthy feat of winning both Grand Championships,…

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Remarkable Find in the Holy Land. the Father of All Wheat

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Saturday 22 October 1910 · page 2

What seems to be the most important and valuable plant discovery that has been made within the last century is about to bo announced. It is nothing less than the…

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