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Farming & the land, 1900

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Sydney Wool Sales. SYDNEY

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 17 February 1900 · page 3

24,788 bales were offered for the week and 21, 540 bales sold by auction and privately. As Compared with the sales of a month ago good wools are lower by fire per cent., and…

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How to Make Good Butter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1900 · page 2

A CORRESPONDENT writes:--I have read much about making batter for both the Home and foreign trade. Experiment stations have been, trying to teach creameries how to make sweet butter,…

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Sunnyside Farmer's Union

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 20 February 1900 · page 2

THE usual monthly meeting of this Union was held at the residence of Mr. T. Howard on Thursday night last, when there were a fair attendance present, Mr…

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The Farmer and Grazier. The Virtues of the App[?]e

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 20 February 1900 · page 2

THE apple is such a common fruit that very few persons are familiar with its remarkably efficacious medicinal properties. Everybody ought to know that the very best thing they can do is to cat…

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Naturalist. Sheep

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 2

A traveller in Greece found three shepherds with flocks of six or seven hundred each, all mingled together, but the sheep would answer to their names when called by…

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Dairy Cow Rations

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 2

AT the agricultural station attached to the Illinois University a test was conducted last year for the special object of studying the variations in…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 23 February 1900 · page 1

No. 126. Strawberry Culture--Selection of varieties--Low prices--The Royal Sovereign--Characteristics -- Borax -- Use in Butter--What It Is--Various Uses--…

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The Farmer and Crazier. The Jersey as a Butter producer

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 27 February 1900 · page 2

THE Americans are wonderful people for going one better limn their opponents in everything they undertake. In most countries Jersey breeders are content with getting their animals to average lib…

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Sheep by the Diningroomful

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 2

DOWN Mores way there is a jackaroo on a station as green at you can make them. The manager told him to go to a certain paddock, muster the sheep, aud take them down to the shed. Later on he met…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 127. Packing Fruit--Uniform Packago --Wooden Cases-- Market Values-- Sterilised Milk and Cream--Tins-- Uses --Butter-Making -- Separating--Starter Theory--The Creamery and Cattle Feeding--Uses of Creamery-- Grazier and Feeder

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 1

Packing Fruit There are several points in connection with the packing of fruit which should be studied by producers if they wish to improve values in the fruit…

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Commercial News. Wool and Produce Reports

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 2 March 1900 · page 2

THE Australasian Mortgage aud Agency Co., Ltd.; John Bridge and Co, Ltd.; Dalgety and Co., Ltd; Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Ltd.; Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Ltd.; Hill, Clark, and Co.; New…

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Wheat

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 2

Mr. H. R. Carter, wheat broker, Sydney and Melbourne, reports as follows under date February 27:—Wheat has not changed since my…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 4

A cable message states that a decline of ten per cent is anticipated at the opening of the wool sales on Tuesday next…

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Telegrams. Sydney, Friday. Sheep Poisoned

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 3 March 1900 · page 4

Nine hundred out of eighteen hundred sheep, recently purchased by Mr. John Powell, of Horsham, Victoria, died through eating, phosphorised grain end…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 9 March 1900 · page 1

No. 128. Scant in Grain--Barley--Oats--Jensen's Hot Water Method--Sleeping--Two Vessels--Baskets --Sockets--How Steeped--Green Vegetables--Molasses as…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 4

A late cable states at the London Wool Sales, competition is bride, sales good, and prices show a hardening tendency…

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Latest News [Through Our Telegraphic Agents.] Price of Butter. Sydney, Monday Night

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 13 March 1900 · page 5

CREAMERY butter to-day advanced in price to nine-pence per lb., and other grades also advanced to the extent of a half-penny per lb…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 2

At the Sydney wool sales yesterday, prices were lower, greasy falling 5 to [?]½ per cent, lambs and scoured being comparatively steady. The top price…

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London Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 14 March 1900 · page 2

A cable from London states at the wool sales competition was good in all cases, the highest current prices being obtained…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. No. 129. Salt as a Fertiliser--Cheap and Valuable--Quantity -- Time to apply-- General Benefits of salt--Different kinds of soil--Salt Dressings--Rye--Potatoes--Nitrate of Soda--Queen Bee--Large Onions

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 16 March 1900 · page 2

Salt as a Fertiliser: Fertilizing the soil is a matter which attracts much attention at present time, and one cannot learn too much about this valuable aid to successful…

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