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Farming & the land, 1897

3,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 28 of 184

Butter and Cheese

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 8

Fine Australian butter is worth 96s per cwt., while a few brands bring 9Ss. Danish butter is quoted at 93s. The cheese market is slightly easier, and New,…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association. WAGGA

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 387

The annual meeting of the Murrumbidgee Pastoral Association was held to-night, Mr. T. W. Hammond being in the chair. The thirty-second annual report stated that the operations of the society during…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 5

LONDON, February 19.—The English wheat markets are weak in tone, without quotable change in prices, the Continental markets are dull, and the American' markets depressed…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 6

LONDON, February 19.—The Antwerp wool sales have closed; 720 bales of Australian were offered, but barely half sold, the prices being about on a par with the last…

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Bradford Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 8
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The Bradford "top" market is improving, but prices are unchanged. "Common 60's are quoted at 17d per lb., and super at 18d. LONDON, Friday. -- A revival of the American…

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The Wool Fleet

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 13

The wool exports since last report totalled 8899 bales. The P. and O. liner China sailed on the 13th inst. for London via ports, and the German steamer Stassfurt also sailed on the…

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Charge of Cattle Stealing Hillston

The Australian Star · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 6

The Quarter Sessions opened yesterday before his Honor Judge Merewether. A charge of cattle stealing, in which father and two sons named…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 17

No sales were held in Sydney last week, but tomorrow and Thursday there will be some 10,000 bales brought forward by the various brokers. It will thus be seen that the sales are condensed into two days…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 7

At the usual fortnightly sales, winch were held this week on the 17th and 18th instant, 11,285 bales were catalogued, and the [?]ales, at auction and privately, during the past two weeks…

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The Australasian Dairyman and Farmer's Friend

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 380

No words are wasted in the latest little addition to the farmers' library. Its 174 pages, turned out by Messrs. Turner and Henderson, Hunter-street, Sydney, contain a complete curriculum of instruction…

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Cobargo Cheese and Butter Factory. Possibility of Cheese Exportation. an Expert's Views

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 396

Situated about 25 miles north of Bega, and about nine or 10 miles from the port of Bermagui, is the N.S.W. Creamery Butter Company's Cobargo factory. The establishment, which is the only cheese…

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Wheat Lands of the South. New Developments. Jerilderie, Feb. 15

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 379

Three years ago, soon after Berrigan had become a wheat-growing centre, I took a trip over the same line of country which I am now travelling, and with almost a similar object to what…

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The Moving Bog. the Donnelly Inquest. Farmers in Distress

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 5

The bog slide near Kilerney has now ceased. The bodies of the Secretker Donnelly and his wife and one of the children have been found and interred. The wooden canopy of a bed…

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Dairy News. Goulburn

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 11

Last month the Tar[?]lga Butter Factory treated 31,000 galons of milk, yielding 8980[?]b. of butter. [?]he supplers were paid an average of 2d a gal[?]on. GRAFTON, Friday…

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Modern Farming in Ireland

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 11

The value of clovers and of other legumes for soil enriching has been very little understood until very lately, but our agricultural writers in every land are now doing their best…

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Dairy Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 381

A cable advice has been received at Auckland which states that the butter shipped by the New Zealand Dairy Farmers' Union realised 105s per cwt. in London…

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A Dairy Factory Matter

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 14

A rule nisi for a prohibition to restrain William E. Henry, P.M., of Grafton, and the Woodburn Dairy Factory Company, Limited, and its directors, from further proceeding under an order of the magistrate at the Court…

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Pure Milk. an American Model Dairy. (See illustrations on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 23

The milk is drawn in the usual way from the cow, and is placed in cans, which are then run on a wire to the dairy-house. Figure 1 is the cooling and bottling room. At the end is a…

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Dairy Records

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 February 1897 · page 14

The Mudgee Dairy Company paid £840 for January milk, the average rate being 2.97d per gallon. To make each pound of butter 2.4 gallons of milk were required…

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