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Farming & the land, 1897

3,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 45 of 184

The Sheep. Breeders' Coming Show

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 6

THE Sheepbreeders' Association is making a bold move this year. Their next show will be held at Moore Park…

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Preservitas in Butter. the Merthyr Tydvil Prosecution

Evening News · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 6

LONDON, March 23.—The prosecution instituted by the health, officer of Merthy Tydvil, South Wales, against a local firm for selling Victorian chilled butter which…

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Victorian Chilled Butter. the Merthyr Tydvil Prosecution

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 5

LONDON, Tueday Night. -- The prosecution instituted by the health officer of Merthyr Tydvil, South Wales, against a local firm for selling Victorian chilled butter, the…

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Melbourne Wool Sale. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 7

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, report by telegraph from Melbbourne that they held a wool sale to-day The attendance was good, and prices for superior descriptions were equal to the rates…

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London Wool Sales. London, Mar. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 5

At the London wool sales, with the exception that faulty sorts are weak, prices are unchanged…

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London Wool Sales. London, March 23

The Australian Star · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 3

At the London wool sales faulty lots show a weakening. Other descriptions are unaltered…

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London Wool Sales. Good American Demand

Evening News · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 6

LONDON. March 23.—At the wool sales this evening prices were unchanged, but faulty sorts were weak. LONDON, March 24.—Compared with the…

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Melbourne Chilled Butter a Prosecution Withdrawn. LONDON, March 23

The Australian Star · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 3

The proceedings which were lately Instituted against a firm at Merthyr Tydvil for selling the butter of the Melbourne Chilled Butter and Produce Co.,…

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Melbourne Chilled Butter. the Prosecution in Wales. London, March 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 5

The health officer at Merthyr Tydvil, Wales, lately instituted proceedings against a local firm for selling the Melbourne Chilled Butter and Produce…

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Ageing Sheep to the Editor " S.S. AND S. JOURNAL."

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 12

SIR,—I am much pleased to notice, in your issue of the 5th hut., a letter from Mr. F. Clayton on the above subject. At the time of the last Conference of Stock…

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The Produce World. Working the Oracle in Wheat and Flour

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 9

The wheat and Hour market just now is a brown and black study for any artist, anxious for a good subject with big splotches of strong light…

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Hunter River Farmers' Produce Sales. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 7

Very-large supplies were forward at the weekly sales of farmers' produce held to-day. Buyers were in excellent attendance, and competition was active throughout, prices being fully equal to late rates. Best butter made 7½d to…

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Dairy News. Ballina

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 7

Pearce's Creek dairy factory last month treated 33,461 gallons of milk for 13,079lb. of butter. Suppliers were paid 2d per gallon for milk. THE PRODUCE MARKETS.—Thursday…

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The Poultry Farm. An Export's Views on Poultry Breeding and Roaring

The Australian Star · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 7

Next Saturday's issue of the Australian Star will contain some useful information on poultry rearing. Those wh are interested in the subjects…

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Gored by a Cow. a Dairyman Disembowelled Horrible Accident at a Saleyard

The Australian Star · Friday 26 March 1897 · page 6

A horrible accident by which shocking, if not mortal, injuries were sustained by a Marrickville dairyman named Joseph White, happened to-day…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 646

The intelligence conveyed by the weather reports from the country for several days has been distressingly monotonous. Rain is wanted almost everywhere, and the weather continues dry and…

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Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 17

Acccording to cablegrams the London butter market continues steady. Prices are unchanged, but business is improving. Colonial, 90s to 94s; a few boxes realused 96s per cwt. Danish is quoted at 88s in London…

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Rescuing Cattle

The Cumberland Free Press · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 6

Daniel Pittaway, a dairyman and labourer, residing at Granville, appeared at the Parramatta Petty Sessions, on Wednesday last, to answer an information charging him wish the…

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Tuberculin and Dairy Cattle. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 4

Sir,—I see in your issue of to-day a lengthy and interesting letter on the prevention of consumption, over the signature of "W. Camac Wilkinson, M.D., Lond., M.R.C.P" May I ask that…

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The Butter Market

Evening News · Saturday 27 March 1897 · page 6

New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company's cable : London, March 24.—Butter : Trade demand good. Fine qualities range in value from 92s to 96 per cwt…

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