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Farming & the land, 1893

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London Wool Items

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 42

The second series of the London sales opened on April 5, when Messrs. Charles Balme and Company and Messrs. Jacomb, Son, and Company offered 13,868 pales at auction. There was a large attendance and…

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The Argentina Sheep Shearing Machine

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 21

T. K. Steans, Limited, showed Messrs. Ward and Payn's patent sheep-shearing machine, the "Argentina," at work on the ground at the recent Royal Agricultural Society's Show, Moore Park…

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The Bradford Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 6

LONDON, Friday.--At the Bradford wool market, crossbreds are in strong demand; 60's are at from 20 34d to 21d, and supers, are firm at 21 34d…

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Wool. Notes on the Wool Trade. Australian and London Markets

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 42

A new experience in the history of the Sydney wool sales takes place this week, in the offering of a large quantity (some 800 bales) of early-shorn Queensland wool. Our northern woolgrowers are…

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Breeding and Fattening Sheep in New Zealand

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 747

As one of the results of Mr. Brace the chief stock inspector's recent visit to New Zealand, we have an exhaustive report on stock breeding and fattening sheep. Eight pages of the printed report deal with…

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Wool and the Money Market

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 4

"Wool is up," and the financial barometer is going down fast. This is good news. When Garnet Walch…

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Pastoral Intelligence. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) Forbes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 10

The following are the crossings over the common for the week:—9th, 44 head mixed cattle, from Neirawang to Yarra Yarra, Coles Brothers owners; 10th, 1000 sheep, from Kadina to Grawlin Plain, W…

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The Export Trade. Meat, Fruit, and Butter. Meat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 44

New Zealand frozon mutton, first quality, is worth 4?d; second quality, 3?d per lb. New Zealand lamb (Canterbury), first quality, 5½d. New Zealand beef, forequarters 3?d, hindquarters…

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London Wool Market. Between the Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 5

LONDON, March 10.--The spirited demand on this market for parcels of colonial wool referred to in our last week's report, has not been fully maintained,…

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COMMERCIAL. The Wool Trade. APRIL 12

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 780

It is with much satisfaction that we are enabled to report that at the opening of the second series of London wool sales for the current year, on the 5th instant, the sanguine anticipations which had…

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Queanbeyan. a Prosperous Agricultural and Pastoral Centre in the Southern Districts

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 26

Queanbeyan, a flourishing town on the Queanbeyan River, which flows through the centre of the township, is distant from Sydney 193 miles, and within a mile of…

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Dairy Farming

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 746

The prospects of dairy farmers in this colony are not quite so bright as they are usually considered by optimistic authorities. It is perfectly true that there is a wide difference between the…

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Sheep Shearing Machine. the Wolseley. Showing Recent Improvements in Working Parts

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 25

This favorite sheep shearing machine was shown in full operation at the recent Royal Agricultural Show, Sydney, and, if anything, surpassed itself in the excellence of its…

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Butter Factory or Creamery. Which Shall It Be? Meeting at St. Marys

Nepean Times · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 7

A large number of representative farmers and others assembled at the Protestant Hall St. Marys on Tuesday, to discuss the advisability of establishing a dairy or…

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The London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 11

Whatever may be the ultimate outcome of the recent spurt in the London Wool Market, this it his done, it has made things pleasant all round. The total that has changed hands since the close…

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Table Top Wool Waggon. Bennett's "Jersey." (See illustration on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 23

At the recent show of the Royal Agricultural Society, held in Moore Park, among other exhibits Mr. George J. Bennett, St. Marys, New South Wales, exhibited a very supe for table top waggon…

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Wool Exports New South Wales, From 1St July 1892, to and Including the 24Th March, 1893. Compiled by the "Daily Commercial News and Shipping List" WOOL July 1st 1892 to March 24th 1893, Wool Shippers. Compiled by the Daily Commercial News and, Shipping List

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 3

Picard Goulet Fils ... 70610 Ostermeyer, Dewez and Co ... 57445 Hick, Martin and Drysdale ... 48569 Dalgety and Co Ltd ... 37188…

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Nepean Dairy Company

Nepean Times · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 7

About 20 subscribers to the above Company visited the newly erected creamery at Castlereagh on Monday morning to witness the commencement of operations there. After the the plant had been…

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Seasonable Farm Notes. Potato Culture. Seed Growing

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 22

AMONGST the great variety of potatoes that are now grown by farmers, some are naturally unfitted to cross with ethers. The chief aim of the propagator at first should be to carefully observe…

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Another Farmers' Conference

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 April 1893 · page 13

AMONGST the mass of legislation in various stages of progress likely to have to go by the board this session must be counted Mr. Copeland's Land Bill. The stage to which…

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