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Farming & the land, 1893

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The Wheat Harvest. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 10

It is estimated that more now wheat has been received in town this summer for export and storage than has ever been the case previously. It is reckoned that a third of a million bushels have been…

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Bradford Wool Market. London, January 20

The Australian Star · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 5

The Bradford wool market for Botany " tops " is weak, " Sixties" are quoted at 20d. per lb…

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Australian Sheep at the Chicago Exposition. to the Editor of the Sydney Mail

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 121

Sir,—From advices just received from America I learn that the exhibits of sheep at the forthcoming World's Fair at Chicago are expected to be bath numerous and varied, and, judging from…

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Queensland News. Agricultural and Pastoral News. The Drought in the West. A Strange Story. Found Floating on a Raft. Insolvency Business. The Separation Movement. General News. BRISBANE, January 16. Agricultural and Pastoral News

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 14

The GAZETTE notifies an extension of the appointment of Mr. E. M. Shelton as Instructor in Agriculture for a further period of three years from January 14.—The total export of sugar…

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The Season's Wool Fleet. Local and November Sales. Comparison Between Sydney and Melbourne. The New South Wales Clip. £4,700,000 of Wool Shipped. Sydney's Shipping Firms

The Australian Star · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 3

THAT the 1892-3 season is narrowing down considerably is shown from the slacking off of the wool coming to hand, this necessitating the woolbrokers reverting to…

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The Condition of Farmers

Evening News · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 6

ALBURY, Friday.-Mr. Max Hirsch, a well-known Melbourne writer and lecturer on political economy, delivered an address in the Federal Theatre last night on " The Condition of…

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Redfern Railway Hay Market. Farm Produce

Evening News · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 6

At the Redfern railway terminus yesterday there was a good supply of forage forward from the numerous stations along the northern, southern, and western lines. Buyers were in good…

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Seasonable Farm Notes

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 22

HOT and scorching weather will be the general rule for the next few weeks over the greater part of Australia. This has been to pastoralists a, melancholy view in the past but by the adoption…

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The State of the Crops

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 21

THE Agricultural Department, in a return prepared with reference to the condition of cereals during the month of December, reports that maize has improved considerably since the last…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 120

The milk supply at the Gulgong Butter Factory is gradually increasing, and up to the middle of this month totals considerably more than the corresponding period in December. Early green feed is also…

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Crop Returns

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 118

The Agricultural Department, in a return prepared with reference to the condition of cereals during the month of December, reports that maize has improved considerably since the last…

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Condition of the Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 6

LITHGOW, Friday.--The harvest returns for the district are pretty fair this season. MUDGEE, Friday.--The yield of wheat in some localities has been up to expectations…

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News of the Dairy Companies

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 21 January 1893 · page 35

Judging from the report of the directors for the year just ended, the Mudgee Dairying Company is in a most flourishing state. During the year 369,523gal of milk were received, being an average of about…

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The Pastoral Leases

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 4

Nothing was more unanimously resolved upon at the late Wagga conference of farmers' delegates than that the lauds of the Central Division, now held in large…

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The Butter Market

Evening News · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 4

LONDON, January 20.-The butter market is demoralised, though the weather is propitious and continental supplies short. Best factory is down 5s and secondary 10s…

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Australian Wheat

Evening News · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 4

LONDON, January 20.-Two cargoes of Australian, wheat, January-February shipment, have been sold at 32s 6d and 32s 9d per quarter (eight bushels) respectively…

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The Wool Traffic

The Australian Star · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 4

DURING the present wool season--that is, front August to the present date--22,200 bales of wool have been received at Albury, as against 23,800 during the same period of…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 7

The holidays being over, the wool trade was resumed with even greater animation than before. Throughout the season the local auctions have been remarkably well attended, more buyers being…

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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondents.) Carcoar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 5

Stook passing through by train, Cowra to Flemington:—Three trucks sheep, D. W. Fanter to A. Wilson and Co.; two trucks sheep, from Bangaroo run, Osborne, to Wilkinson, Lavender, and Co.; two…

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London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 January 1893 · page 9

The fifth and last series of the London colonial wool auctions closed yesterday, after occupying 18 days at an average of 12,545 bales per day, as against 11,035 bales same period last year. The…

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