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Farming & the land, 1891

3,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 40 of 163

Darling Harbor Market. Farm Produce

Evening News · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 5

At the railway terminus, Darling Harbor, there was a moderate supply of forage this morning from the numerous intermediate stations along the northern, southern, and…

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A Model Farm for the Tamworth District. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Tamworth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 5

A public meeting convened by the Mayor was held in the Council-chambers last evening to consider the advisability of forwarding a petition to the Minister for Agriculture for the establishment of a model farm in…

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Dairy Commotion

The Australian Star · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 6

ALBURY, Friday.--The extension of the Dairies Supervision Act to Albury is provocative of no small commotion among the dairy men of parts of the town. The…

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Experimental Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 April 1891 · page 5

TAMWORTH, Thursday.--An influentially attended public meeting last night carried the following resolution:--"That a committee be appointed to draft a petition to be presented…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 801

Since the rain of last week the weather throughout the colony has been fine and invigorating. The pastures are still well clad with nutritious grasses. Stock are in good condition, and ploughing a progressing satisfactorily…

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Cattle Stealing

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 6
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

EDWARD MARTINEER, who had been found guilty of cattle stealing, was sentenced at the Quarter Sessions this afternoon to two years' imprisonment with hard labor…

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Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 42

Local auction, sales during the woek have been well attended by huyera, and keen competition baa existed for good greasy and the better olaas of scoured woola, for which late rates have been…

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Pastoral of the Australian Bishops

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 8

The Pastoral Lettter signed by thirty-two Archbishops and Bishops of the Popish Church in Austria has caused considerable sensation in Vienna. Its tone of conciliation…

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Our Dairying Industry. (Written for the " Town and Country Journal.") Xi.—butter-making—old System. Washing, Salting, and Working Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 21

Of late years there have been several methods of treating butter advocated. Many dairying farmers were surprised to hear that so much depended on the proper treatment, of butter during the precess of…

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Foot Rot in Sheep

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 22

THIS important subject is dealt with by several flockmasters in the journal of the Royal Agricultural Society in England. Mr Butter, who is well known as a purchaser at local ram sales, thus…

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Grains of Wheat

The Bird O' Freedom · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 5

A poor apostle hath less honor than a rich thief. Stolen waters are sweet, but stolen whisky is sweeter…

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Rust in Wheat

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 22

A REPORT on rust-in-wheat experiments made to the Vietorian Department of Agriculture concerning the treatment of five varieties of grain at Lake Albert, shows that a small area sown with…

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Hunter River Agricultural and Pastoral Association

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 10

The thirty-first exhibition under the auspice of this society will be commenced at West Maitland on the 15th inst., and continued over the 16th, and 17th, and if a line can be got from…

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South Australia. the Wheat Crop. a Very Large Shortage

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 5

ADELAIDE, Friday.--The wheat wheat is in a very excited condition, mainly owing to the report of a very serious deficiency in the Victorian wheat crop, which, according to…

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The English Butter Market. Heavy Imports

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 23

Dorine the year 1889 there were no less than 123,200,0001b of butter imported into the United Kingdom, valued at upwards of £10,000,000. Nearly all of this vast importation came from European…

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The Langley Wool Press

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 23

This press has now been before the public for the last five years, and every year it comes more and more into favor, and greatly inoreases the output. We are told that a great number of orders had to be…

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Latest Fastoral News (Continued From Page 23.) Weather, Stock Movements, Wool. Weather

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 42

During the week there have been light raina on the coast and in tho far west of Now South Wales. Latest reports from Queensland were to the effect that very heavy rains had fallen in parts, and this…

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Practice With Science. an Analysis of Wheat. From the Miller's Point of View. (See illustrations on this page.) No. 4

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 22

The Australian poulard (figure 27), the English Revitt, has a yellow grain, relatively slender, rather different from some of the tender wheats. It does not give flour of the first quality, but is, however,…

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Darling Harbor Market. Farm Produce

Evening News · Saturday 11 April 1891 · page 6

At the railway terminus, Darling Harbor, there was a moderate supply of forage on Friday from the numerous intermediate stations along the northern, southern, and…

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