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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1891

3,246 stories in Sydney's papers · page 58 of 163

Upper Hunter Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Muswellbrook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 8

The Upper Hunter P. and A. Association was opened to-day at 10 o'clock without any formal ceremony. The clouded sky gave fears of wet weather, but they soon began to break, and about midday…

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Wheat Market. London, May 20

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 5

A cargo of wheat by the Horsa has been sold at 43s per quarter. The market rate of wheat is now lower…

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

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 8

Stock passing through:—3 trucks sheep, Alford, to Leeds and Co., Cowra to Homebush; 1 truck prize ewes, Carcoar to Parramatta, Wilson and Hopkins, to R. D. Clark; 1 truck horses, Carcoar to…

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Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Young

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 8

At a meeting of the committee of the Burrangong Pastoral and Agricultural Association held this afternoon, Mr. J. Forsythe in the chair, the programme for the annual exhibition on the 19th and 20th August…

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Cattle-driving From Homebush. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 8

Sir,—The nuisance, often dangerous and always unpleasant, to persons who either for pleasure or business have to travel on the Parramatta-road and the Five Dock sud Leichhardt streets is becoming…

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The Dairying Plant. (To the Editor of the "Australian Star.")

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 2

Sir, -- Bravo STAR ! That little article of yours upon the extravagant absurdity of what is termed the travelling dairy fad, is seasonable, and should help in awakening…

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The Baby Farmer. Visits Newcastle. Newcastle

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 6

The police are anxiously searching for the woman who abandoned the two months' old baby on the doorstep of the residence of Mrs. Lane, of Hamilton, on Monday night…

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From the Richmond. Heavy Weather. The Sugar Cane Crop. The Lismore Railway. Local Coal. CORAKI

The Australian Star · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 5

It has rained incessantly here during the past fortnight, greatly retarding the progress of farming operations. The sugar cane looks, splendid, and the…

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The Travelling Dairy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 5

BATHURST, Wednesday.--The travelling dairy worked well to-day, the spindle of the Laval separator having been fixed. Milk was treated for cheese, and 40lb. of butter was…

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Experimental Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 21 May 1891 · page 5

GOULBURN, Wednesday.--The Government are about to establish an experimental farm, combined with an agricultural school, here. The site of the institution is at Kenmore,…

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Colonial Wheat

Evening News · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 6

LONDON, May 20.—The cargo of wheat shipped by the Alastor from Wallaroo, March 3, sold at 43s 3d, and that by the Hoosa, from Port Pirie, March 31, at 43s…

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Committed for Cattle-stealing

Evening News · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 6

GRAFTON, Thursdays.—Alexander Hugh and Dugald M' Pherson, brothers, were brought up, on remand, at the Police court, to-day, charged with cattle-steating. Defendants declined to give…

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The Wheat Supply

Evening News · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 6

LONDON, May 20.—The visible supply of wheat is estimated at 31,200,000 quarters (of eight bushels)…

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The Wheat Market

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.--A cargo of South Australian wheat, ex the ship Horsa, has been sold at 43s per quarter. Wheat is now selling at 1s per quarter…

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The French Wheat Crop. a Failure Anticipated. London, May 21

The Australian Star · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 5

It is fully anticipated that the season's wheat crop in France will be a failure, and that the supply tor home consumption will be deficient by at least 20,000,000…

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Wheat Cargoes and Demurrage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 4

A case of some importance to shippers of wheat cargoes to France, was decided by the Tribunal of Commeree of Havre early in April A ship from San Francisco, with a wheat cargo, was detained at Havre 19 days in discharging. The…

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Wool. Sydney. Newcastle. Melbourne

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 3

APPENDED we publish the Exports of Wool for the six months ending 31st December, 1890, and hope they will be found of interest to our many friends in the shipping and mercantile community. The…

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COMMERCIAL. Barling Harbor Market. Farm Produce

Evening News · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 4

At the Darling Harbor Railway Terminus this morning there was a moderate supply of forage for ward from numerous intermediate stations along the northern, southern, and western lines. Buyers…

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The Travelling Dairy

The Australian Star · Friday 22 May 1891 · page 8
Also in The Daily Telegraph

WE are informed by the Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Sydney Smith) that the officer in charge of the travelling dairy, now operating at Bathurst, has intimated to the…

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