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Farming & the land, 1897

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 January 1897 · page 6

The first series of 1897 wool sales opened on Tuesday. Business was [?]at, at about 5 per cent decline upon the closing rates of the last…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 January 1897 · page 4

At the London Wool Sales yesterday prices were firm, and competition general end brisk…

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Wool Affairs at Bradford

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 January 1897 · page 7

In altogether an uncharacteristic form, without the least degree of aristocracy in its demeanour, the wool trade of Bradford during the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. Monday, January 18

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 January 1897 · page 7

Quantity catalogued, 4543 bales; sales 3137 bales. The highest price of the day, 8¼d, was secured for the C wethers and…

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London Wool Sales. LETTER No 45. a Firm Finish. London, December 11

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 23 January 1897 · page 7

Quite consistent with its predecessors, this series of sales has been rather shorter than usual, and in bringing [?]ny present periodical letters to a…

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Keeping Butter Firm

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1897 · page 4

THE following simple method is recommended for keeping butter firm. Take a tight box (10 or 12 inches high, 12 or 14 inches wide, and 18 to 24 inches long), that can be got at any store…

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Wool Market

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1897 · page 3

At the wool sales on Saturday prices were unchanged…

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Wheat Foe Adelaide. Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 January 1897 · page 5

AT Corowa two steamers and three barges are loading wheat for Adelaide…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 27 January 1897 · page 2

At the London Wool Sales prices were firm and bidding animated…

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Butter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 1

One of the best ways to keep up a good colour in butter during the winter and spring is by feeding the cows daring the winter and spring months on well-cured hay, with the…

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Wool Brokers' Charges and Co-operation

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 2

IN a few issues back we published some correspondence in which the writer drew attention to the exorbitant rates levied by the : Sydney wool brokers in carrying out their…

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Farm and Garden. the Narcissus

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 29 January 1897 · page 1

This is nothing more than a daffodil. It is an excellent bulb, however, to grow in the window of a cool room and when the flowers ate in full beauty they exhale a powerful…

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A Great Sheep Dairy

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 4

IN the district of Roquefort, France, there is a cheese factory which uses the milk of some two hundred and fifty thousand sheep,' turning out, during tho season, from three to three thousand…

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Cattle Plague in Africa

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 4

ACCORDING to the latest news, the cattle plague was rapidly advancing towards the Cape colony. About a million of money had, already been spent in trying to stamp out the disease…

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How to Get the Right Flavour in Butter

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 7

BUTTERMAKING was the subject of a fine paper by C. F. Oltroggle at the Iowa dairy convention. Flavour is the main thing to be improved…

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Has the Hiss in Wheat Come to Stay?

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 6

IT is seldom, writes a correspondent of the AGRICULTYURAL, Gazette, London, 14th Nov., under the above title that a "bull movement" will last for long unless there…

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How to Become a Successful Dairyman

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 February 1897 · page 2

DISPOSE of any cow that does not make 200lbs. of batter in a year, and breed the remainder of the herd to a good bull of some of the leading butter breeds, a Jersey…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1897 · page 2

At the London wool sales yesterday business wan brisk. Greasy was very firm…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1897 · page 2

At the LONDON Wool Sales on Friday evening price were well maintained and but little was withdrawnMessre. Campbell, Nimmo and…

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Sydney Wool Sales. (By Telegraph.)

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 February 1897 · page 2

At the Sydney wool sales yesterday competition was extremely keen and prices fully equal to last sales. An advance of a farthing was…

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