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Farming & the land, 1895

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The Butter Famine. [By Telegraph.) Sydney

Singleton Argus · Tuesday 24 December 1895 · page 2

THERE was quite a commotion in Sussex-street to-day on account of the butter famino, and a meeting was convened, to consider the rates to which…

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The Farmer's Last Penny

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 24 December 1895 · page 1

THE farmer went out of doors in the warm spring morning and looked around. A pleasant breeze blew across the fields, bringing a scent of fresh green grass and of…

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The Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Thursday 26 December 1895 · page 3

Nothing is doing in the Bradford market, Holders are not anxious to sell…

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Californian Wheat for Australia

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1895 · page 10

Messrs. J. I. Falk and Co. write to the Herald to any that they are in receipt of a cable notifying further shipments of Californian-grown wheat to the Australian market. A very large ship, the…

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The Farm & Garden. Enemies of the Dairy

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1895 · page 12

They are everywhere; but in dirty places they are present in myriads of bacteria, which soon make their presence felt in the dairy unless extraordinary cleanliness is observed…

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Monks as Farmers

The Maitland Weekly Mercury · Saturday 28 December 1895 · page 13

Undoubtedly the most successful farmers in Canada are the Trappist monks. At Tracadie, in the cast, at Oaka, in Quebec, and at St. Norbert, on the Red River, in the…

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Bradford Wool Market

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1895 · page 5

The American crisis has not affected the Bradford wool market. There is good inquiry. The outlook is hopeful…

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Price of Cattle in Ireland

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Tuesday 31 December 1895 · page 5

The following from the IMPARTIAL REPORTER will give our readers an idea of the prices ruling for stock in Ireland:—Enniskillen monthly fair…

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Live Cattle Shipments to England

The Maitland Daily Mercury · Tuesday 31 December 1895 · page 6

SIR,—I have just been answering a batch of English letters, among them the enclosed, which, though somewhat old, you might like to publish for the information of farmers and…

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