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Farming & the land, 1893

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Champion Jersey Butter Cow. Signal's Lily Flagg. (See illustration on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 23

In America there is an association representing each prominent breed of cattle, and it is customary for milk and butter contests to take place for each respective breed of dairy cattle. Jersey…

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Australian Affairs. Victorian Bonds. Suggestion from Bankers. The Market for Victorian Butter. Australian Meat--The Earl of Onslow's Bill--The Duke of Argyle's Cargo--The Wheat Market. LONDON, March 17

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 5

Sir Andrew Clarke, Acting Agent-General for Victoria, has received a suggestion from a number of London bankers with respect to the issue of £2,107,000 worth of 5 per…

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Wool Exports New South Wales, From 1St July 1892, to and Including the 3Rd March, 1893. Compiled by the "Daily Commercial Hews and Shipping List." WOOL July 1st 1802 to March 3rd 1893. Wool Shippers. Compiled by the Daily Commercial News and Shipping List

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 3

Picard Goulet Fils ... 6677 Ostermeyer, Dewez and Co ... 50474 Hick, Martin and Drysdale ... 41529 Dalgety and Co Ltd ... 37085…

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The Season's Wool Fleet. Local and Continental Sales. New South Wales Exporters. Sydney's Shipping Firms

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 3

As anticipated in our last article, there was a fair amount of animation displayed in the Sydney wool world, as far as the despatch of the fleet was concerned, during…

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The Baby Farm Horror

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 9

The test trial in connection with the alleged murder of a number of infants resulted in the conviction of John and Sarah Malin. The jury, brought in a verdict of guilty, the foreman…

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Seasonable Farm Notes. Potato Culture

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 22

IN continuation of my remarks on propagation of plants I think to all lovers of gardening, floriculture and horticulture, this subject will be found highly interesting. To every one engaged in all…

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Damage by Recent Floods to Maize Crop

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 538

In our issue of the 25th ultimo we deplored the lots of the maize crops on the Clarence, but congratulated our readers on the fact that in other parts of the colony, especially the south, the yield…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 540

During February the Robertson dairy separated 93,243 gallons of milk, and paid suppliers 3¼d per gallon. A number of Melbourne men intend to start a…

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The Clunes Dairy Factory

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 539

We are indebted to a correspondent for the following description of the Clunes factory, which commenced operations on the 6th instant:—The company ia styled the Clunes Dairy Company,…

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General News. The Baby Farming Case

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 575

THE jury which wag locked up on the night of the 8th considering the charge of murder brought in the Central Criminal Court against John and Sarah Makin, returned into court next…

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Crop Report. Effect of Floods

The Australian Star · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 6

In the departmental report on the state of the crops for February, it is estimated that in the Clnrenco district alone 3000 acres of maize, equal to 100,000 bushels,…

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Farm and General Produce

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 42

At the Redfern railway forage sales during the week the supplies were very small, owing to the flooded state of the country districts from which the main consignments of fodder and produce…

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Baby Farming in Sydney. Trial of the Makins. Found Guilty of Murder

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 16

After a trial of three days at the Sydney Central Criminal Court, John and Sarah Makin, portraits of whom were given in a recent issue of the TOWN AND COUNTRY JOURNAL, have been…

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Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 6

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, and Company have received the following cable from their London agents: Trade on the Continent improving. Antwerp sales 1d (one penny) above last…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 4

LONDON, March 18.—The English wheat market is lifeless. Spot quotation of No. 2 red winter wheat in New York, 77c. A cargo of 7000 quarters of Victorian wheat,…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 4

The fortnightly auctions were held here on Tuesday and Wednesday, and, although the catalogues offering proved to be only small, a large number of buyers were attracted to the…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 4
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LONDON, March 18.—The total quantity of wool catalogued was 8860 bales; the quantity sold, 5680 bales. Thirteen hundred bales of Australian wool were sold at…

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Sheep for the Chicago Exhibition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 3

We understand from the secretary of the New South Wales Commission for the Chicago Exhibition that arrangements for the representation of sheep from this colony at Chicago are now…

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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondents.) Gilgandra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 20 March 1893 · page 7

Stock movements: 2600 fat [?]wes from Wingadee station to the freezing works, Aberdeen, Messrs. A. Tobin and Sons owners, D. M'Arthur drover. NYNGAN, SATURDAY…

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