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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1892

4,205 stories in Sydney's papers · page 52 of 211

Rust in Wheat. To the Editor

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 22

Sir,—During the last season I was carrying out experiments in numerous ways to endeavor to find a cure for the rust in wheat. I had 2a laid out in plots, and although most of my trials were…

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Australian Butter. the Oroya's Shipment. London, April 8

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 4

The shipment of Australian butter by the R.M.S. Oroya has arrived in good condition. The warmer weather now being experienced has had the effect of lowering the market…

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Wool-classing at the Technical College

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 803

The establishment of a department under which wool-classing could be taught with conditions likely to turn out experts in connection with the Technical College has aroused some feelings…

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The Wool Duties. London, April 8

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 4

The bill introduced into the United States House of Representatives by Mr. W. Springer, Chairman of Committee of Ways and Means, for the repeal of the import…

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Stolen Sheep. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 817

Sir,—I saw by the papers last week that a person is to be tried for sheep-stealing. His method appeared to be to send the stolen property by train to Sydney, where they would be quickly disposed of with little…

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American Wool Duties. the Repeal Bill Passed

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. -- The United States House of Representatives yesterday passed the bill introduced by Mr. W. B. Springer, Chairman of Committees of Ways and…

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The London Wool Sales. Recovery in Prices

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 10

We have received the following advices from London regarding the wool market:— Buxton, Ronald, and Co., under date…

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The New England Harvest. Splendid Quality of Wheat

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 22

AT a meeting of the Farmors' Union Committee on Saturday (says the Tenterfield STAR) Mr. E. R. Whorest stated that the wheat crop this year Was of unusally fine quality, going in some…

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The Pacific Coast Wool Trade. a Yearly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 42

Writing from San Francisco on February 1 Messrs. Thos. Denigan, Son, and Company say, in their yearly review of the Pacific coast wool trade: Considerable attention has been paid to foreign,…

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Our Dairy-farming Industry. Recent Developments of the Trade. Messrs. Foley Brothers' New Premises

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 19

WITHIN the past few years there is no industry in New South Wales perhaps which has presented so much change over the old order of things as that which comes under the head of…

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The Dairy Farmers' Association. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Nowra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 10

A meeting of the district branch of the Dairy Fanners' Association was hold this afternoon at Finister's Hotel to consider complaints that the association had not assisted the agents in the export…

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AGRICULTURAL. Prize Dairy Farms. (Concluded.)

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 818

I will close this series of articles with particulars of a dairy farm which gives much more than ordinary emphasis to the statement that enterprise when acompanied by thrift and industry can…

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Wool Classification. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 805

Sir,—The students at present undergoing instruction at the department for instruction in sheep and wool at the Technical College, Ultimo, wish to call the attention of all interested in the wool trade to the very erroneous ideas…

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Wool-classing in New South Wales. to the Editor of the Daily Telegraph

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 10

Sir, -- In a late issue of your paper there appeared a letter signed "Wool Cla[?]ser," in which the writer seems to take some exception to the gentlemen selected to form the…

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The Season's Wool Fleet. Review of the Year. Decline In Prices. Our American Customers. New South Wales' 1891-92 Exports. Sydney's Shipping Firms. ; Ahout £700,000 Worth of Wool Already Shipped

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 11

As the 1891-92 wool season has now virtually closed it will be of interest to our readers to see how the New South Wales returns come out as compared with previous years…

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Scientific Farming

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 22

THE big Dakota farms are run on business principles. Everything is systematically arranged, and the farmer knows what everything costs and what everything is worth. new farm like ours,…

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Educating Our Farmers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 22

THE necessity for holding periodical meeting of Agricultural Societies for purposes of mutual improvement by means of the exchange of ideas and the reading of papers on agricultural subjects has…

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Warwick Farm Pony and Galloway Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 10

The Warwick Farm pony and galloway meeting, postponed from the previous day, was held yesterday, and was favoured by flue weather, 'The attendance was up to the average. Tho track was…

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New Zealand Farmers' Co-op Association Report

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 7

Report for the week ending Friday, March 25, 1892:—WHEAT.—The necessity for completing engagements ninde has compelled buyers to opearte at full…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 April 1892 · page 804

The annual report on the administration of the Dairies Supervision Act was laid on the table of the Legislative Assembly last week by Mr. Barton. The report states that although there are still dairies in…

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