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Farming & the land, 1906

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Wool Market. DALGETY & Co's. Ltd. Report

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 2 January 1906 · page 2

Dalgety & Co. report under date of 21 at ult. :- Wool sales for the year at this centre closed on Wednesday, 20th inst., the…

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Farm and Pastoral Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 3 January 1906 · page 2

A new departure is about to be taken by the Queensland Department of Agriculture in the way of encouraging young men to enter upon farming…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Mouled Butter

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

MODERN butter-markers' churn to fine granules so that the salt may reach all parts of the butter an uniformly as possible, but butter in which the salt is…

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New England Wool

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 4

IN response to a request by the Minister for Agriculture for a fleece (unskirted) from a two-year old sheep, for transmission to Japan in a representative collection of the State Mr. A. H…

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Pastoral & Commercial. [[?] the latest Stock Sales and Produce Markets prices, see our telegraphic columns.]

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 4

A [?] drawn by 40 bullocks, yoked four abrust, recently arrived at Charloville with a record load of 17 tons of wool, which had been drawn a distance of 101 miles…

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Crop's Nest Tragedy

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 5 January 1906 · page 2

Interest has been revived in Queensland in the Crow's Nest tragedy (for which James Ryan was sentenced to imprisonment for life) by the discovery…

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Under-Weight Butter

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

Reports form London suited that the weights of Victorian butter are not so satisfactory on arrival in England as are the consignments from New Zealand…

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Does Salt Increase Weight of Butter?

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

It is generally labour for granted that when on ounce of salt is added to a pound of butter the weight of the salted butter is an ounce more than before the…

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Farm and Field. Dairying on Costly Land

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 4

Why is dairying in Holland prosperous in spite of her high-priced lands, high taxes and other high costs of production? (asks a farmer in the "New York…

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Successful Wool Auction by Goldsbrough, Mort & Co a Record Established

The Walcha News and Southern New England Advocate · Saturday 6 January 1906 · page 3

GOLDSBROUGH, MORT & CO. effected a highly satisfactory clearance of a large and important catalogue (5142) on Wednesday, the 23rd…

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Farm, Dairy, and Station. Romney Marsh Sheep

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 3

MR. R. D. MURCHISON, of Toorak, Victoria, writes:--"The Romney Marsh are very prolific. In a moderately sized flock twins and oven triplets are frequent, and as…

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Wheat Estimate

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

The official estimate of the wheat yield for the present season is 20,500,000 bushels, an average of 11 bushels to the acre…

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Dentition Test for Cattle

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 3

ARGUMENTS frequently arise at agricultural shows regarding the age of cattle, exhibited. As a rule judges award prizes to the best animals as they are placed before them,…

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The Wheat Harvest. SYDNEY

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 5

THE official setimate of the season's wheat crop is 20- millions of bushels —an average of about 11 bushels to the acre…

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Wool Market. DALGETY & Co's. Ltd. Report

Warialda Standard and Northern Districts' Advertiser · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 3

Since the wool auction sales closed on 20th inst. a fair amount of business has been done in private sales of withdrawn lots out of recent catalogues…

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Dairying in Queensland. Record Payments

The Tenterfield Intercolonial Courier and Fairfield and Wallangarra Advocate · Tuesday 9 January 1906 · page 2

Payments for cream by butter factories in Southern Queensland during December amounted to £90,000, and during the same period £10,000 was paid for milk by cheese…

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Market and Pastoral News. Sydney Wheat Market

The Inverell Times · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 2

Messrs. J. Raven and Coy., wheat brokers and agents, 148 Clarence-street, Sydney, under date January 2nd report as follows:--Owing to the London market showing no…

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Farm and Pastoral Notes

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 2

Commenting upon the [?] the improvement of [?] judicious [?] Dutch [?]…

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The Wheat Crop

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 4

FIGURES in connection with the season's wheat crop are now available, the Government statistician having made his annual compilation. It is…

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Butter Export Trade

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 4

At a meeting of the Butter Export Committee yesterday, the opinion was generally expressed that direct cooperative export of butter should be…

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