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Farming & the land, 1904

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Alleged Cattle Stealing

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1904 · page 3

JAMES LARKIN, on remand, was charged with cattle stealing. Mr. R. H. Nelson, representing Mr. P. P. Abbott appeared for accused. Senior sergeant Flynn stated that on 23rd inst…

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Victorian Wheat Harvest. MELBOURNE

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1904 · page 5

THE wheat harvest in Victoria is estimated at 27,120,000 bushels, or some 7,500,000 bushels in excess of any previous year…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles Feed for the Dry Season

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 1 January 1904 · page 2

THE hot weather and dry period which usually prevails during midsummer and early autumn is usually very trying and critical…

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Farm, Dairy, and Stat on. Salting Sheep

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 3

THE effect of salt on the health of the sheep is not generally understood. Its effect is to give tone to the organism. The ash of the blood of a healthy sheep contains…

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Sheep Poisoning

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 2

Last week Mr. P. J. Shannahan of Deeside (writes a Swamp Oak correspondent), lost 59 head of sheep in a peculiar manner. His flock had…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Selecting Seed Wheat

Guyra Argus · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 2

AS a rule, in a general way, farmers attention to the matter of securing the very best seen wheat, consequently…

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The Wheat Harvest. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 5

1700 bags of wheat reached Darling Harbour on Saturday, as against 100 bags on the corresponding date last year…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Feed for the Dey Season

Guyra Argus · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 7

THE hot weather and dry period which period prevails oaring midsummer fend early autumn is usually very trying and critical…

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Farmer & Co., Ltd

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 2

MESSRS FARMER & Co., Ltd., Victoria House, Sydney, will be represented to-day, to-morrow, and Thursday, at Tattersall's Hotel, by F. P. Thompson, and all their clients are invited to…

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Late Crops Suffer

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 5 January 1904 · page 2

Reports from various parts of the country state that heavy wind and rain are doing damage to the crops not yet harvested…

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The Wheat Supply

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 4

Thirteen thousand bags of wheat have been delivered daily at Darling Harbour, against none this time last year. Since the beginning of the…

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Sydney Wool Sales. a Slight Advance

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 4

The local wool sales opened yesterday. Medium descriptions showed an advance of a farthing per pound…

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Sheep Poisoned

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 2

A SWAMP CREEK correspondent of our Warialda contemporary reports that Mr. P. J. Shanmahan lost 69 head of sheep in a peculiar manner. His flock had been dipped and were standing in the…

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Wool

The Inverell Argus · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 5

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and co., Ltd., reported on the 30th ult.,—The Sydney wool market is quiet though business continues to be done…

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Butter In Five Minutes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 2

PROGRESSION in inventions is lightning shod at the present time, for to-day we see the ingenious mind of man inventing machines to expedite and lighten labor of all descriptions. The separator…

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Crops at Ben Lomond

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 2

WITH the exception of some patches of oats on the lowlands, the oat, potato, and corn crops on Ben Lomond (a correspondent writes) are looking well. For grain, however, the wheat is a failure…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Treatment of Broad Sow and Pigs

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 1

THERE is an impression among some people--but a wrong one--that the shorter breeds, as Poland-Chinas, Berkehires and…

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Wheat

The Inverell Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 4

The Bane Pan correspondent of the Narrabri AGE writes : The harvest reports coming to hand are still very discouraging, the 1st crops here bring a complete failure One farmer…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 3

On Wednesday, the New Zealand Loan and M.A.Co. wired us as follows:— At our wool sale yesterday, the market was firm. Medium wools sold at a fractional…

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Worms in Sheep. Treatment of the Disease

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 4

Mr. T. R. Scott, Stock Inspector forwarded for publication the following in the Moree " News":…

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