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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1890

3,419 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 171

Floods in the North. Great Damage to Maize Crops. KEMPSEY

The Australian Star · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 5

Showery weather prevailed on Saturday, and 27 points of rain fell. From January 11 to January 18 instant the rainfall registered at Kempsey was 1415 points. On…

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Farmers' Exhibition

The Australian Star · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 5

WAGGA WAGGA, Monday.--The exhibition of farm, garden, and, dairy produce, to be held next month, under the auspices of the Agricultural Union, promises to bo a…

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Fruit Crops Failing

The Australian Star · Monday 20 January 1890 · page 5

WAGGA WAGGA, Monday.--The small black fly which has been doing so much damage to the grape and fruit crops of Victoria has made its appearance here in…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Evening News · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 7

MOLONG, Monday.-After a week's gloom and damp, with light rain suspending all harvest work, clear,fine weather has now set in, and operations are being resumed, Some farmer have finished, and…

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Farmers and Their Wheat. Co-operating for Higher Prices. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 5

ALBURY, Monday.--A meeting of the Hume Farmers' Union was held on Saturday evening at Burrumburnock to devise some measures for more advantageously selling this year's wheat…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondents.) Carcoar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 8

Stock passings: Three trucks sheep, Cowra to Homebush, G. Campbell, to Wilkinson and Lavender. satisfaction is expressed amongst graziers here in consequence of a letter received by Mr. Thomas…

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The Export of Butter. Is the Trade Beneficial to Producers?

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 8

Much diversity of opinion (says the Melbourne Age) exists on the question whether the recent exportation of butter to the London market under the auspices of the Agricultural Department, and fostered by Government…

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Rust in Wheat. a Proposed Intercolonial Conference. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Monday.--The Minister for Agriculture has written to the secretary of the Australasian Science Congress with the object of obtaining two experts, one a scientist and…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 21 January 1890 · page 8

The quarterly meeting of the Hume Farmers' Union was held on Saturday evening at Burrumbuttock, Mr. C. J. Morton in the chair. The principal subject for discussion was the price now ruling for wheat, which…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Country Butter Factories. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 7

CROOKWELL, Tuesday.--The butter factory at Laggan paid its first dividend yesterday. Suppliers received 2½d per gallon for milk on the company's first, mouth's operations. A…

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Pastoral and Agricultural

Evening News · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 5

GLEN INNES, Tuesday—Stock movements: 4000 store wedders from pike's creek, Queenland, to montrose Jerry's plains, power owner, 800 fat weather from deepwater to Horrebush, M'Aush…

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Wool

The Australian Star · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 4

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Limited, report:--For our sale on Monday we submitted a fairly representative catalogue, containing 3135 bales. There was a very large…

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Butter Factory Roads

The Australian Star · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 2

MR. JOHN KIDD, M.L.A., interviewed the Minister for Public Works yesterday with reference to roads loading to butter factories generally in the west end of the…

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Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 7

Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, report having held their eleventh sale of the season yesterday when they offered [?]20 bales of wool, chiefly of medium aud only fair quality, from tho Monaro and…

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Approaches to Butter Factories

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 6

Mr. Kidd also brought under the notice of the Minister for Works the approaches to butter factories in the west end of his electorate. He pointed out that these butter factories were new institutions, and in some…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Bourke

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 7

The following are the crossings at North Bourke Bridge for the week ending January 8; 1890:—3500 store wethers, Yands to Acton Hills, Wyatt in charge; 299 fat bullocks, Cowley Plains to Sydney,…

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Travelling Dairies. Cheese and Butter Competition. BRISBANE

The Australian Star · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 4

In order to better demonstrate the benefits to the colony to be derived from the teachings of the travelling dairy in the southern district it is proposed to hold in…

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The Wool Sales in the Colonies

Evening News · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 4

LONDON, January 21.—Letters have appeared in the Daily News complaining that the wool sales held in the Australian colonies are depriving the London wool…

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The Export of Butter. Is the Trade Beneficial Producers?

Evening News · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 2

Much diversity of opinion, exists on the question whether the recent exportation of butter to the London market under the auspices of the Agricultural Department, and fostered by…

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The London Wool Trade. London, January 21

The Australian Star · Wednesday 22 January 1890 · page 5

On account of the frequent difficulties among the London dock laborer an [?]tion has been commenced having for its object the diversion of the wool trade from…

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