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Farming & the land, 1896

4,084 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 205

Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondent.) Carcoar

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 5

The following is the account of stock that has been trucked from here during the last few days:— Two trucks of sheep, Carcoar to Flemington, Thomas Fitzpatrick to Hill, Clark, and Company…

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The Wheat Supply. London, March 25

The Australian Star · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 6

Bradstreet's weekly report estimates the total visible supply of wheat at 91,200,000 bushels, as against 92,400,000 last week, a decrease for…

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AUSTRALASIAN & Cape Wool Importers. For the London Market. 1895

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 3

Through the courtesy of Messrs. John Sanderson and Co. of this City' we are enabled to publish the following return, furnished by their London House, Messrs. Sanderson, Murray and Co. 114,518 Australian Mortgage, Land and Finance Co., Limited 111,899 Dalgety and Co., Limited…

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The Cattle Trade with Western Australia. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 6

A cheek to the cattle trade from the Maitland district to Western Australia was met with about a week ago by the circulation of a report that the Government of the western colony had prohibited the…

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English Commercial. [By Cable.] (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 25. Wheat Statistics

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 7

Bradstrect's estimate of the American visible supply of wheat is 91,200,000 bushels, against 92,400,000 last week and 93,707,000 bushels at the corresponding date last year. The net…

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Hillston Farmers' Association. Hillston

The Australian Star · Friday 27 March 1896 · page 5

With reference to the resolutions passed by the Farmers' Association and forwarded to the Minister for Lands, a wire was yesterday received from the member for the district,…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 634

The temperature took a very sudden jump downwards at the close of last week. So great was the change that the highest records of Sydney ranged between 60 and 70deg. This coming so closely after…

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Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 15

Our London cable advices state that the market for colonial butter shows a weakness at a slight decline in price. Australian is quoted in London at 94s to 100s per cwt. Danish commands 106s…

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Detecting Adulterated Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 23

At a conference on frauds in the sale of butter, held by members of the Agricultural Society of Nord, at Lille, Mons. Elvire, veterinary and inspector of meats and food productions at…

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Selling Deseased Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 13

At Newtown Police Court on March 18 three cases of selling tuberculous cattle came before Mr. Giles, S.M. Archibald M'Neill, carcass butcher, proceeded against Joseph Leeds, and W…

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Diseased Cattle Prosecutions

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 668

A case in which Thomas Bury, carcase batcher, proceeded against W. E. Richards, fat stock salesman, for having at the Flemington salyards on the 5th instant sold to him a bullock which, upon being…

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Molong Sheep Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 7

MOLONG, Friday.--The first of what is proposed to be a series of yearly stud sheep sales in Molong was conducted at the local show ground yesterday afternoon by Messrs. A. D…

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West Australian Cattle Trade. Importation of Live Cattle Stopped

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 11

WEST MAITLAND, Saturday— For some time shipments of cattle from the Hunter River district have been made through Maitland agents for West Australian ports, the cattle being…

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Action Between Butter Companies

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 10

ln No. 2 Jury Court on March 23 the South Coast and West Camden Co-operative Company, Limited, sued the Cobitty United Dairy Company, Limited, to recover £100, balance of an account alleged…

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The Sheep-breeders' Show

The Australian Star · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 2

His Excellency the Governor has donated 15gs. to the Sheep-breeders' Association to be given in prizes at the sheep show to be held in July next. A large number of…

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Wheat at Berrigan

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 647

The wheat-growing district of Riverina, of which Berrigan may be said to be the centre, has, during the past few years, come into considerable prominence. In 1885, when the first floor mill was…

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The Wool Fleet

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 10

The export of wool from this port since last report amounted to 11,462 bales. Of this the R.M.S. Austral, for London, took 65 bales, the steamer Maori King, for London and Havre,…

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The Victorlan Wheat Yield

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 17

MELBOURNE, March 18— The Government Statist has prepared a preliminary return of the wheat yield of 1895-96. The returns, unfortunately, are not yet complete, but the figures…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 15

The interval since the last fortnightly sales has, owing to the absence of salable supplies rather than any slackness on the part of the eager buyers still left with us after the exodus of so many to Europe,…

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Pastoral Intelligence. (From Our Correspondent.) Glen Innes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 28 March 1896 · page 9

Stock Passings.—200 cows, from Pikedale (Q. to Abindon, F. C. White owner; 904 sheep, from Kangaroo Camp, Wee Wee to Moree, S. B. Burge owner; 10,000 wethers, on the road from…

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