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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1894

4,815 stories in Sydney's papers · page 15 of 241

Champion Farms

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 116

The report of the judge (Mr. F. B. Kyngdon, M.R.A.C.) appointed to adjudicate on the merits of the farms entered for the champion prize offered in connection with the National Prize Competition…

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Hunter River Farmers' Produce Sales

The Australian Star · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 2

Mr. J. N. Brunker reports:--On the wharves and at the Redfern railway sheds, Sydney, lucerne hay was in fair demand, and brought 55s to 65s per ton. At…

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Distress in Spain. Starving Laborers Pillaging Shops and Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday Night.--There is great distress among the laboring classes in Spain. At Cadiz a body of laborers who have been reduced to a state of…

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Farm Notes. Worms in Pigs

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 9

Give turpentine [?]oz., spirits of camphor 1oz, mixed in two tablespoonfuls of molasses. Put it into a small quantity of sloppy feed. That is enough for…

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Dairy Records. Illawarra Dairies

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 42

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday.— At a meeting of the Central Illawarra Council yesterday the report of the Board of Health officer's late inspection of the dairies was read. The report admitted that…

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Practical Dairying

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 18

There has just been issued from the Government Printing Office ' " Practical Dairying for, Australia, by J. P. Dowling, assisted by F. M. M'Caffrey, written for and…

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A Handy Farm Crate. (See letterpress on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1894 · page 23

A correspondent, who signs himself " Traveller," sends us the accompanying illustration of a light, strong, cheap, and convenient farm gate, made out of 3in hy lin hardwood battens, which…

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Australian Butter

Evening News · Monday 22 January 1894 · page 4

LONDON, January 21.—The price of colonial butter is unchanged…

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The Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday Night.--At the current London wool sales coarse crossbred is from ¼ to ½d dearer, and the bidding for heavy merino is slow. Prices have been…

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National Prizes, 1892. Champion Farms

The Australian Star · Monday 22 January 1894 · page 6

The report of the judge, Mr. F. B. Kyngdon, M. R. A. C., appointed to adjudicate on the merits of the farms entered for the champion prize offered in connection with…

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Wool Sales

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 2

Harrison, Jones, and Devlin, Limited, report With this week terminates what is known as the weekly series. We included all the supplies available in our catalogue for Monday, the contents of…

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Wool Shipping

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 4

Messrs. H. J. King and Co. are finishing the fine ship Buteshire this week for London. She will have 9700 bales, the largest cargo by far that has left this port by sailer this season. She will be followed by the Great Admiral, for…

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Rust-resisting Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 6

Professor Lowrie, of the Roseworthy Agricultural College, has received a communication from Mr. E. Coe, of Gladstone (says the Adelaide Advertiser), respecting a trial which was made last season of some…

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Grain, Hay, and Potato Crops. a General Increase. Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 6

A forecast of the wheat harvest of the season 189394 was published by the Government Statistician two or three weeks ago. Figures are now given showing the estimated area under and approximate yield of…

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Commercial. Sydney Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 8

The New Zealand Land Association, Limited (for the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited), report :-- This company held the last of its weekly…

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Albury Wool and Produce Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 7

ALBURY, Monday.--The wool and skin sales to-day were well attended. There was a falling-off in the amount of wool forward in consequence of the lateness of the season,…

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Australian Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 6

With the title of " Practical Dairying for Australia," Mr. J. P. Dowling, the agncultural editor of the Sydney Mail, has written for the Agricultural Department of New South Wales a handbook for the…

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The Taranaki Dairy Company. Auckland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 5

Mr. Valentine, the Government dairy expert, pronounces the Taranaki district, which he has just visited, the finest dairy country he has over seen in any part of the world…

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Our Grain Crops. Big Increases. In Grain, Hay and Potatoes

The Australian Star · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 6

The Government Statistician, with the advantage of later and fuller data, has prepared a further estimate of the grain crops for this season. He states that the area under…

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The Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1894 · page 4

In connection with the estimate of grain, hay, and potato crops published in The Daily Telegraph a few days ago, it may be stated that the revised figures show that the yield…

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