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Farming & the land, 1890

3,419 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 171

Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 961

The Crookwell Butter Factory have agreed to use a Laval separator, and accepted Waugh and Josephson's tender. A building of stone is being erected at Cottawalla. The Laggan Butter Factory Company…

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Farm Notes for the Season

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 961

The director of the Government Farm of Tasmania, who visited Victoria and South Australia recently, expressed on his return some opinions about silage. They were, in effect, that roots and…

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Irish Farmers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 967

The new Land Bill for Ireland which Mr. Gosehen has introduced has had the effect of disintegrating the Opposition, though whether the Conservations are unanimous about it has not yet…

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Weather, Stock and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Friday.--Rain fell throughout the greater part of last night and up to noon to-day, since which time the weather has been fine but cloudy…

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Victorian Farmers and Protection. Mr. Samuel Young at Goulburn. (By Telegraph.)

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 5

GOULBURN, Friday.--Mr. Samuel Young, president of the Numurkah group of the Victorian Farmers' Protection Association, and Mr. J. M'Lean, who was formerly lecturer to the…

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The Home, the Farm, and The Orchard. Grape Vine Pruning

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 6

As the time for pruning the vine is now near, it may not be amine to give a few general instruction for the benefit of those interested, particularly those…

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The Bodalla Collection of Farm Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 22

At the renent show of the Agricultural Society of N.S.W., held in Moore Park, the Bodalla Agricultural and Dairying Co. brought forward a magnificent trophy pf its products. Bodalla, as nearly everybody…

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COMMERCIAL. Farm and General Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 43

At the Darling Harbor hay sales this week there was a heavy supply of forage at market. Prime caten hay soarce, and maintains its full value. In ferior kinda, lucerne, and chaff are about 20s per ton…

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Temperature in the Dairy

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 3 May 1890 · page 23

The great majority of writers say that cleanliness is the prime factor in the dairy and creamery; I would rather say that temperature isithe most important factor. Take the manipulation of milk…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Weather Stock and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 6

ORANGE, Saturday.--Remarkable weather prevails for this time of the your. The days are quite fine and warm and there is as yet no sign of the approach of winter…

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Trimming Show Sheep

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 3

The trimming of show sheep is a matter of importance. There are those who object to trimming, but it is impossible to show sheep in the natural unkempt and rough state. Jt is really cruel to ask a breeder…

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The Weather, Agrigultural and Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 7

May is opening with moist weather. April closed with showers, some of which were remarkably heavy. The north coast was heavily drenched, and some of the south coast districts were well…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 4

Messrs. John Sanderson and Co. are in receipt of the following cablegram from their London House, Messrs. Sanderson, Murray, and Co.: London, May 2.-Smaller attendance of buyers…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 6

Steck passings, through trains: 30 trucks cattle, Nyngan to Melbourne, via Albury, Presley to Powers and Rutherford; 8 trucks sheep, Cowra to Homebush, P. G. Ormsby to Pitt, Son, and Badgery; 1 truck sheep,…

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Rust in Wheat. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")

The Australian Star · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 2

Sir,--Would you allow me space in your widespread journal to have a few words to say re rust in wheat. I have grown wheat for the last 26 years, and have had no rust…

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A Great Strike Imminent Refusal to Ship Non-union Shorn Wool

Evening News · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 5

BRISBANE, Saturday.-It is stated in town that a waterside strike of great magnitude is imminent. Certain squatters on the Darling Downs have been shearing during the present season…

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Rust or Mildew in Wheat. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 6

Sir,--Wheat is subject to periodical attacks of rust or mildew, smut, malt or blight, occasioned very much, far as my recollection serves me, by the state of the atmosphere at the time…

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Threatened Monster Strike. Boycotting Non-Union Wool-sheds. Co-oporation of Waterside Laborers. BRISBANE

The Australian Star · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 6

A great waterside strike, which may affect not only Queensland, but the neighboring colonics, is imminent. Some squatting firms of the Darling Downs…

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The New South Wales Farmers. a Dear Market to Buy From. A Cheap Market to Sell to

The Australian Star · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 4

DURING the last week I have had ample opportunity of judging the assumed benefits of Free-trade on the agricultural industry, and am more than ever strengthened in my…

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Suicide of a Farmer. Found Hanging in a Stable. BATHURST

The Australian Star · Monday 5 May 1890 · page 6

About 8 o'clock this morning a farmer at Raglan named Thomas German committed suicide by hanging. He was in apparently good health, and had partaken of breakfast…

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