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Farming & the land, 1889

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 9

In this market most of the auctioneers submitted catalogues, which aggregated in all 3017 bales, a great many lots consisting of oddments. Consequent upon a good private inquiry in the interval since the last sales…

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The Price of Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night. -- Off-coast wheat, per ship Inch Keith, inward bound from Timaru, New Zealand, is selling at 36s 6d per quarter…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Country Land Business. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 7

PARKES, Thursday. -- Five thousand and thirty-five acres were conditionally purchased in the local lands office to-day…

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Seed Wheat for Distressed Farmers. Many Compelled to Leave Their Farms. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Thursday. -- At the annual meeting of the delegates of the South Australian Farmers' Mutual Association to-day, regret was expressed at the refusal of the Government to…

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The Wheat Market. London, March 6

The Australian Star · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 5
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Off coast wheat, ex the ship Inch Keith, is quoted at 36s 6d…

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Traffic in Infants. Another Phase of Baby-farming

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 3

For years past it has been the practice of women to traffic in infants not only in regard to abandoning them in public places, such as outhouses, open fields, &c., as revealed in the case of…

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She Practiced Baby-Farming. the Woman Sentenced

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 6

In the ease of Kate De Lawarie, who had pleaded guilty to eight indictments, charging her with abandoning infants, at the Quarter Sessions, this morning, his Honor Judge M'Farland…

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The Hume Farmers' Union. the Cancellation of Reserves

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 6

ALBURY, Friday.—At a largely-attended meeting of the Hume Farmers' Union on Thursday, it was resolved to agitate for the cancellation of a number of reserves throughout the Hume district,…

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South Australian News. Distressed Farmers

Evening News · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday.—At the annual meeting of the delegates of the South Australian Farmers' Mutual Association pa Thursday, regret was expressed at the refusal of the Government…

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The Hume Farmers' Union. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 7

A meeting of the Hume Farmers' Union decided to agitate for the cancellation of a number of reserves in the neighbourhood of Walla Walla and Burrumbanock, which are not required for public purposes, with a view…

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QUEENSLAND. The Farm Lease Case

The Australian Star · Friday 8 March 1889 · page 6

BRISBANE, This Day.--The case of the three Jacksons, charged with the forgery of the lease of Lolla Farm, is being heard at the police court to-day, and is not…

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Latest Pastoral News. Weather, Stock Movements, Wool. WEATHER

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 40

Wednesday, February 27, was the second hottest day of the present season. At nineteen stations the thermometer attained a maximum of over 100deg in the shade; and many others came very close to the hundred. The week…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 477

We are glad to say that in some parts of the colony rain has fallen within the past week, as will be seen by our reports below and the table we publish elsewhere. But, generally speaking, the weather lias been fine, and…

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Our Wheat Crop

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 475

The return of the year's wheat harvest just published by Mr. Coghlan shows the serious losses sustained by the drought. Disastrous as were the consequences of the dry weather to the flocks of…

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The Illawarra Strain of Dairy Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 492

Out illustration this week depicts the champion bull and the cow Violet, the property of Messrs. Cole of Waterside, Jamberoo. Violet is a type specimen of the pure-bred dairy strain, descended without, any cross…

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Seed Wheat Foe Distressed Farmers in South Australia

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 20

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New Zealand. New Zealand Butter

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 6

AUCKLAND, This Day.--A shipment of New Zealand butter sent to England has realised up to £5 16s per cwt…

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Wool-Scouring Patent

Evening News · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 5

LONDON, March 7.—A syndicate has been formed to work Indell Singer's wool-scouring patent…

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The Seed Wheat Question

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 March 1889 · page 30

ADELAIDE, Feb. 28. — Twenty-six members of the House of Assembly have signed a petition asking the Governor to convene a special session…

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