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Farming & the land, 1897

3,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 35 of 184

The Wagga Sheep Board

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 6

WAGGA, Sunday.—The Wagga Sheep Board has decided that as the fund collected under the Diseases in Sheep Act Is wholly derived from a tax on stock, and forms no part of the general…

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The Wesleyan Conference The Pastoral Address

The Australian Star · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 7

The sitting of the Wesleyan Conference this morning was to an extent merely of an informal character. After preliminary business the principal work…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing. the Cooma Case

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 5

COOMA, Monday.—Great surprise was occasioned in Cooma last night by the arrest of two persons named John Perry and Thos. Westerman, on suspicion of being concerned in the recent case…

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The Wool Trade. the American Syndicate

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 6

LONDON, March 6.—The Bradford wool trade ridicules the statement that a strong syndicate in the United States hopes to be able to buy 1,000,000 bales of Australian…

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The Wool Trade. London, March 6

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 5

Tho Bradford wool trade ridicules the statement that a strong syndicate of leading American purchasers hopes to be able to buy 1,000,000 bales of Australian and…

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American Wool Syndicate. London, March 6

The Australian Star · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 3

The report that an American syndicate has been formed to purchase 1,000,000 bales of wool is generally ridiculed by the leading Bradford wool…

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The American Wool Syndicate. the Report Discredited

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Saturday.—Bradford wool merchants ridicule the report that a wool syndicate has been formed in the United States for the purchase of 1,000,000 bales of Australian…

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Destructive Fire. 900,000 Bushels of "Wheat Burnt

Evening News · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 6

LONDON, March 6.—A large grain elevator in Illinois has been destroyed by fire. Nine hundred thousand bushels of wheat were burnt…

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Destruction of Wheat. An Illinois Elevator Burned. LONDON, March 7

The Australian Star · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 5

A report has been received from America of the total destruction of a great grain elevator in the State of Illinois, by fire. In the conflagration a…

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SUMMARY. For European Mail. SYDNEY, March 8th, 1897. Wool Report

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 5

The quantity of Wool manifested outwards during the week, from Sydney to oversea ports, amounted to 2,213 bales, making a total exported from New South Wales since July 1st…

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Influx of Victorian Farmers. Narrandera

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 4

Ten Victorian farmers with their families arrived here to-day from Victoria. They intend cultivating farms on Colin Roobie, 18 miles from Narraudera, for wheat-growing on the share system until more…

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The Dairying Industry. Camden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 March 1897 · page 7

Mr. James Hayter, who has just returned from a visit to the Clarence River, has reported that the Newrybar Creamery was paying 2 [?]d per gallon. The farmers on that river had not to feed their…

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Pastoral Mems

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 2

The London "Meat Trades Journal" in re the investigations in rinderpest by Dr. Koch, says:—"Professor Koch, in the course of a fall report to…

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English Sheep Experts

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 12

At the King's Head, West Ham, London, recently, Mr. C. E. Lewis, coroner, held an inquiry with reference to the death of Thomas…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 6

LONDON, March 8.—The second series of London wool sales for the year will be opened to-morrow. The arrivals of wool to date amount to…

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Second Edition. London Wool Sales. London, March 8

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 5

The second series of the London wool sales for the present season will be opened to-morrow. The arrivals of wool to date amount to 406,000 bales, and 89,000 were…

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The London Wool Sales. Arrivals for the Second Series

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON. Monday, 12.30 p.m.--For the second series of London colonial wool sales for 1897 the arrivals to date have been 406,000 bales, of which 89,000 were…

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Destruction of a Grain Elevator. 900,000 Bushels of Wheat Burnt

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Sunday Night.--A large grain elevator in Illinois, United States, has been destroyed by fire. Nine hundred thousand bushels of wheat…

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Pitt, Son and Badgery, Limited. the New Wool and Produce Firm. the First Sale

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 6

A new wool and produce firm has been born into the world, but' it has not begun its career in baby fashion. It comes as Minerva came from the…

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Australasian Dairying. a Magnificent Future

Evening News · Tuesday 9 March 1897 · page 6

LONDON, March 8, 9.15 p.m.—Mr. Benjamin Jones, one of the Co-operative delegates who recently visited the colonies, stales that the Australasian dairying…

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