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Farming & the land, 1896

4,084 stories in Sydney's papers · page 71 of 205

London Wool Safes

Evening News · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 5

LONDON, May 6.-At the wool sales this evening medium and best quality wools were firmer; faulty wools were weak. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin's cable…

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Seizure of Cattle Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 5

The Customs authorities on Tuesday seized 18 cattle belonging to Messrs. M'Donald and Marum, of Albury and Wodonga., on the ground that they were introduced into the colony without…

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Pastoral Products. Homebush Fat Stock Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 7

SHEEP.--49.423 were penned, being: 3122 less than the number drawn for Opening sales were dull, only a few of the trade being in attendance, and the quality of the sheep offered was of very middling…

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The London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday Night.--At today's London-colonial wool sales medium and best quality wools were slightly firmer, but faulty wools were in but weak demand…

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Royal Agricultural Show Cattle. Live and Dead Weight

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 6

The last of the bullocks and sheep sold by auction at the recent Royal Agricultural Show have now been slaughtered. The best of the bullocks…

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The Wool Sales. London, May 6

The Australian Star · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 7

At the London wool sales to- day medium and best classes of wool were slightly firmer, but the market for faulty kinds was weak…

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London Wool Sales. London, May 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 5

At the wool sales this evening medium and host quality wools were slightly firmer. Faulty wools were weak. May 7…

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Our Wool Report. Thursday Noon, May 6th, 1896

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 2

Auctions were held in this market yesterday and to-day, when 2279 bales in all were brought under the hammer. Considering the time of the year, and the…

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Agricultural Conference. Intercolonial Gathering. Export of Farm and Dairy if Produce. Marking of Goods-- Grading of Products for Export

The Australian Star · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 6

Having had the opportunity afforded by the recent conference at Adelaide of inspecting the systems adopted by the Victorian and South Australian Governments…

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Sheep for Export. to the Editor "S. S. AND S. JOURNAL."

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 6

SIR,—I am pleased to see the Sheepbreeders' Association has adopted my suggestion as to giving prizes for sheep suitable for export, tut I would…

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Re Sheep Judging. to the Editor " S. S. AND S. JOURNAL."

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 6

SIR.—Assuming that the main object of a sheep show is to give breeders reliable information and help in improving the various breeds of…

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Latest Cables. the Wool Sales. Heavy Fall in Prices. Comparisons With March Sales. London, May 7

The Australian Star · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 5

At the London wool sales to-day the prices ruling were : For merinos, from par to 5 per cent, below the prices realised at the March sales ; for faulty…

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The Premier at Lithgow. Trimming to the Iron- workers. Favourable to Local Industry. The Premier Surprised at Seeing Local industries-- The Minister for Works has an Object Lesson-- Speech by the Premier-- The Coming Session's Work-- Prospect of a Crisis-- No Upper House Reform -- Free trade and the Farmers-- The Prospective Deficiency. LITHGOW

The Australian Star · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 8

Upon has arrival at 1 o'clock yesterday, morning the Premier was met at the station by Captain H. E. S. Bracey, Mayor of Lithgow and several other prominent…

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Farmers Congratulate Mr. Carruthers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 6

SINGLETON, Thursday.--A meeting of farmers in favor of the resumption of squatting leases in the district for farmers was held today. The Minister for Lands was congratulated on the…

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Concentrating Work at the Experimental Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 8 May 1896 · page 4

The Minister for Mines and Agriculture considers it advisable that plantations should be formed at the experimental farms, for the purpose of obtaining information in connection with the…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 953

Saturday and Sunday were unseasonably warm days. With the heat there came light showers to several parts of the colony. In all 50 stations reported rain, which registered from a point or two up…

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Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 16
Also in The Cumberland Free Press

The Australian butter ex steamer Port Chalmers arrived in the London market on May 1 in good condition, and is selling slowly at 88s to 90s per cwt…

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The Butter Market

Evening News · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 4

LONDON, May 8.-The butter market is dull. Colonial is quoted at 80.9 to 88s per cwt. The Danish committee has lowered the price by 3 kroner (about 3s 4d) per cwt…

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The Butter Industry

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 May 1896 · page 6

A firm that enjoys a widespread reputation for the excellence of its dairy produce is that of Messrs. Foley Bros., of 355 and 357 Sussex-street. In the manufacture of butter,…

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