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Farming & the land, 1894

4,815 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 241

The Wool Fleet. Ship Hebo Has the Present Record

The Australian Star · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 6

The Sydney clippers forming tho wool fleet for the January sales are now arriving daily in the Thames. The first to arrive was the Cimba (Danger, Gedve rind Co.) on January…

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English Commercial. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, Jan. 10. the Wheat Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 7

Bradstreets weekly estimate of the visible supply of wheat in America is 90,100,000 bushels, against 99,500,000 bushels last week and 104,700,000 bushels at this time last year…

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Warwick Farm Pony and Galloway Races

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 6

Subjoined are the entries received yesterday for the meeting to be held on the Moorefield Racecourse, on or about Thursday next:— WELTER HANDICAP (14.2), 5 furlongs.—The Rambler…

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Mr. Reid on His Tour. Farmers Abandon Protection

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 12 January 1894 · page 5

Mr. Reid, M.P., has returned from the Riverina with a political sore head. The world has got out of joint with him. When a reporter saw him yesterday some of…

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Feeding Sheep on Wheat

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 22

MR. John A. Craig, of the Wisconsin, United States of America, experimental station, thus unites to the Breeders' Gazette, Chicago :- " Last winter I visited Mr. William Ogilvie, of…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 61

On Saturday morning 68 reports of a good rainfall were received at the Observatory, and the weather chart issued at 1 p.m. shows that only 15 stations in the colony were without sharing in the welcome…

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Cattle. British Breeds. the Illawarra Dairy Cattle. (By "Norseman.")

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 22

The Illawarra cattle, though chiefly bred in Australia, are essentially Britiah in their origin and characteristics, for they contain in their veins scarcely any admixture of foreign blood,…

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Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 41

During the week ended January 5 the number of bales submitted amounted to 5080, divided over no less than 3488 lots. The average was therefore under a bale and a half per lot; 4800 bales were sold. These…

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Victoria. Victorian Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Friday. -- The Acting Agent-General has been bringing the claims of Victorian butter under the notice of the authorities of the Imperial army and navy with…

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Wheat Sowing

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 22

IN an agricultural article there is described a method of sowing wheat and maize called "listing," "strongly recommended for countries in which there is a deficient rainfall." Trials have been made in Kansas,…

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Wool Cargors

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 8

Messrs. Dalgety and Co. have received a cable advising the arrival of the ship Patriarch on Thursday, after a passage of 85 days from Sydney. Messrs. Gilchrist, Watt, and Co. have received a cable…

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Victorian Butter. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 9

The Minister of Agriculture has received a letter from the Acting Agent-General on the question of inducing the War Office and the Admiralty to use Victorian butter…

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Heavy Mortality in Sheep

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 22

OWING to the unusually wintry weather during the past few days (says the Queenbeyan AGE) the stationholders and others engaged in pastoral pursuit in this district have unfortunately lost a…

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Shipment of Butter. Melbourne

The Australian Star · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 5

The mail steamer Arcadia has taken 400 tons of butter for London…

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Australian Butter. Cold Storage Recommended

Evening News · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 4

LONDON, January 12.— The TIMES, with a view to the regulation, of the butter market, suggests that provision should be made for the cold storage of butter in a…

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The Price of Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 9

TEMORA, Monday— A largely attended meeting of farmers and others was held at Talbot's Empire Hotel on Saturday evening, for the purpose of protesting against the action of the…

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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondent.) Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 10

The following stock movements are reported:- 23,700 mixed sheep, from other districts to Albury Boiling-down Works, G. W. Scrivener, owner, 1500 merine ewes, from Doodle Cooma to Victoria, R…

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The Butter Market. Suggested Gold Storage

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 5

LONDON, Friday. -- The Times, with a view to the regulation of the butter market, suggests that provision should be made for the cold storage of butter in a…

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Our Butter Exports. the Grader's Report

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 22

THE New South Wales Dairy Farmers' Export Association's grader, Mr. J. Russell, reports as follows for the fortnight ending 2nd January; - During tho past fortnight shippers have been…

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Water Famine at Condobolin. Disease Among Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1894 · page 44

CONDOBOLIN, Saturday— All over the district the scarcity of-water is keenly felt. A number of selectors on the north side of the river are deserting their holdings, after…

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