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Broken Hill & the Far West · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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A Child's Death. Crushed by a Bag of Wheat. Adelaide

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 September 1907 · page 4

At Truro the 3-year-old son of Joseph Mack, of St. Kitts, was killed by a bag of wheat faling on him while he was playing with other children in the [?]rn…

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The Dairy Congress. London

Barrier Miner · Saturday 21 September 1907 · page 4

The International Dairy Congress, in session at The Hague, recommends that the nations represented prohibit the importation of butter from countries…

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The Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 27 September 1907 · page 2

The London wool sales show continued animation. The merino sales have advanced 7½ per cent…

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The Wool Clip

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 October 1907 · page 2

Dalgety and Co. Limited estimate that the increase for the coming Australasian wool clip will be as under:— Increase[?] Victoria, [?]000 bales; New…

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The Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 1 October 1907 · page 2

At the wool sales yesterday 5650 bales were catalogued, of which number 5080 found buyers. The market was strong and excited. Prices were…

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The Wool Sales

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 2 October 1907 · page 4

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. have received the following cable from their London house, dat[?] September 28:- "Wool sales continue f[?], with…

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Poisoning Cattle. Melbourne

Barrier Miner · Friday 4 October 1907 · page 4

William James Lokie, a dairyman's assistant, was sentenced at Geelong yesterday to five years' imprisonment for poisoning several cattle belonging…

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London Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 October 1907 · page 4

Advices to [?] show that at the [?] wool sales the b[?]dding showed continued animation and improving prices…

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Shortage of Wool. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 October 1907 · page 8

Several shearing sheds in the [?]wa [?]et have cut out. The wo[?] in [?] instances was very light and of a fine [?]. Owing to the…

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Unemployed As Farmers

Barrier Miner · Saturday 5 October 1907 · page 6

That it is not so impracticable as was at one time imagined to turn a city-bred workman into a useful laborer on the land has been…

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Cattle-driving in Ireland. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 October 1907 · page 4

Sir Antony Macdonnell (Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland), at Castlerengh last night gave on address before a commission…

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The Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 October 1907 · page 2

Advices received in Sydney stats that the fifth series of the London wool, sales closed on Friday. Merino wools showed an advance, compared with the…

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Latest Cable News. [Reuter's Messages.] the Wool Sales. London

Barrier Miner · Monday 7 October 1907 · page 4

The wool sales closed firm to-day in the highest series…

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The Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 October 1907 · page 2

At the wool sales bidding was keen and prices firm. There were offered for sale 9067 bales, of which 8492 were sold…

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India's Troubles. Failure of Crops. the Calcutta Riots. Factory Labor. [Reuter's Messages.] London

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 9 October 1907 · page 2

After a dry and hot September the West Bengal crops are suffering. The harvest in the north-weat frontier and the united provinces has been a…

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New South Wales. the Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 October 1907 · page 4

At the wool sales yesterday 6906 bales were offered for sale, of which number 6364 were cold B[?]dding was spirited. Greasy wools sold at 15½d…

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Colonial Dairy Show. London

Barrier Miner · Thursday 10 October 1907 · page 2

In the 125 entries for the Colonial Butter and Dairy Show the first prize (s[?]lted butter) went to Darl[?] Downs (Queensland), the second to…

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New South Wales. the Wool Sales. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 8

At the wool sales yesterday [?] bales were offered for sale, of which number 6364 were cold Bidding was spirited. Greasy wools sold at 15½d…

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The Wool Sales. Prices Not Quite so Firm. Sydney

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 4

Advices to [?]nd are to the effect that prices at the wool sales are, perhaps, not quite so Arm as they were. Of 7564 bales offered 6449 were sold…

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Colonial Dairy Show. Additional Awards. [Reuter's Message.] London

Barrier Miner · Friday 11 October 1907 · page 4

The additional awards given at the Colonial Butter and Dairy Show for salted butters were as follow:—Highly commended, Cambridge (New Zealand),…

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