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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

3,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 24 of 163

Australian Wheat. London, Feb. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 7

Victorian wheat of February-March shipment has been sold at 37s 9d per quarter…

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The Wool Sales. London, Feb. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 7

Owing to a heavy fog in the city to-day the wool sales had to be postponed…

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The European Beet Crop. London, Feb. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 7

Mr. F. O. Licht, of Magdeburg, in his beet circular, estimates that the production of beet sugar for the last five months shows an increase of 9000 tons, and he considers…

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The Western Farmer. a Reply to Shoddy Assertions. The Legitimate Farmer's Voice. Mr. Wren Substantiated. MOLONG

The Australian Star · Wednesday 25 February 1891 · page 6

The articles in the AUSTRALIAN STAR, under the heading of the " Western Farmer," have created a sensation throughout the district. The inhabitants of the town of…

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Butter Factories

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 6

GOULBURN, Thursday.-- The electorate of Argyle is now studded with butter factories, all of which are producing a first-class article…

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Wheat

The Australian Star · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 6

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited, report that they are in receipt of a cablegram dated February 24, from their London office as follows:-- The market is…

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Sheep Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 5

WILCANNIA, Tuesday.--The sheep returns of the Wilcannia district, which have just been published, for 1891 show a grand total of 1,950,544. The following are the approximate…

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London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 6

Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Limited, have received the following cable dated London, February 24 :--Wool: "The sales are proceeding with good spirit, and biddings are…

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The Wool Market. London, Feb. 24

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 7

The wool' sales were resumed to-day after the suspension due to fog. Prices continue unchanged…

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Prizes for Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 February 1891 · page 5

SINGLETON, Wednesday.--Mr. George Prentice, of the Agricultural Department, Mr. Anderson, president of the Agricultural Society at Moruya, and Mr. Joseph Styles, J.P., judges…

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The Wool Trade with the United States

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 6

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.--At a special meeting to be held by the Newcastle Chamber of Commerce to-morrow, Mr. H. Blackiston, who recently made a tour of the United States,…

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London Wool Sales. Close of the Series. London, February 26

The Australian Star · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 6

The wool sales closed to-day. The market has been very irregular. For merino of a superior quality the prices varied from par to 5 per cent', dearer than the closing rates of…

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English Commercial News. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Feb. 25. Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 7

The quantity of wheat and flour now afloat to the Continent is estimated to amount to 924,000 quarters. CURRANTS. FIGS, &c…

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Barling Harbor Market. Farm Produce

Evening News · Friday 27 February 1891 · page 5

At the Darling Harbor Railway Terminus this morning there was a moderate supply of forage forward from the various intermediate stations along the northern, southern, and western lines…

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Australian Wheat and Butter. London, Feb. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 9

Wheat by the Juba Foodora sold at 38s 3d and 38s per quarter; that by the South Australian, March delivery, at 37s 9d…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 458

Never before, so far as it can be remembered in Sydney, has such a remarkable explosion taken place as that which occurred during a thunderstorm on the 23rd instant. Mr. H. C. Russell, Government Astronomer,…

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Wool

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 3

Mr. F. L. Barker reports holding his 13th sale on Thursday. The usual buyers were present, as well as two or throe buyers from the sister colony. The market showed a…

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Wheat-growing

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 462

The past season was not a favourable one for wheat-growing in New South Wales. Mr. Coghlan, in a preliminary return, estimates the total production at 4,300,000 bushels only,…

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Latest Pastoral News. (Continued From Page 23.) Weather, Stock Movements, Wool. Weather.—Violent Storm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 42

A violent storm struck the continent on Sunday morning last and travelled across the country from the Gulf of Carpentaria at a tramendous rate to Sydney which it reached on Monday. At about…

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Lung Worm in Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 February 1891 · page 23

A few weeks Since we gave illustrations and description of the lung w o r m — Strongylus…

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