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Farming & the land, 1897

3,680 stories in Sydney's papers · page 53 of 184

Mr. Sydney Smith at Tamworth. Commercial and Experimental Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 8 April 1897 · page 5

TAMWORTH, Wednesday.--Mr. Sydney Smith, the Minister for Mines, accompanied by Messrs. A. B. Piddington, Ashton, Dick, O'Reilly, M. Harris, and Hawthorne, Ms.P., arrived this…

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The Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6
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The position of the butter market was in the same unsettled condition yesterday as it was on Monday last. It was generally conceded that the uncertainty which surrounds the market was one of considerable…

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The Wheat Market London, April 7

The Australian Star · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6

The wheat market shows a downward tendency. The visible supply is 55,946,000 quarters…

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The Future of the Wheat Market

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Thursday. -- By the last, English mail, Mr. E. H. Lascelles received from Mr. J. M. Sinclair, the representative of the Agricultural Department in London, a letter…

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The Wool Fleet. Sydney Exports, £7,870,000

The Australian Star · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 3

Matters in connection with the wool world could not have been much slower than the record for the past week. The London sales closed somewhat…

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London Wool Market. Prior to the Second Series

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 7

LONDON, March 5. -- The Colonial Wool-brokers' Association held their preliminary meeting on Monday last to allot days and rotation of selling at the second series of sales for this year, commencing on 9th inst. I fear,…

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London Wool Market. (From Our Correspondent.) London, March 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 7

Arrangements are now completed for the opening of the second series of London colonial wool auctions on Tuesday next, 9th March. Selling brokers have distributed programmes, and…

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Hunter River Farmers' Produce Sales. West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 7

Large supplies were forward at the weekly sales of Hunter River Farmers' Produce held to-day. Buyers were in excellent attendance, competition was active, and values were firm. Butter made 6d to 1s per lb.; eggs,…

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Dairy News. Casino

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 7

The New South Wales Creamery Butter Company has decided to immediately erect a central butter factory at Casino and establish several additional creameries on the Upper Richmond. It is also likely…

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The Country. Farming on the Halves Principle. an Examination in Bankruptcy

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 9 April 1897 · page 6

ALBURY, Thursday. -- The experiences of Adolph Pfrunder, a farmer, on the shares principle, who came to Riverina from Nhill, in Victoria, were related in the Bankruptcy Court…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 749

The rainfall of the last seven days has been very light and benefited but few districts. The heat has been for the time of the year almost phenomenal. On all sides there is expressed the fear that the colony is…

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Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 16

The butter market in London is cabled as steady, with a consuming demand. Australian, is quoted at 88s to 94s per cwt, and Danish at 85 kroner…

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Australian Butter

Evening News · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 5

LONDON, April 9. 8 p.m.—The butter by the R.M.S. Jumna has been landed in excellent condition, and is selling at from 90s to 92s per cwt…

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A Missionary Pastoral

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 9

The Dean of Sydney, as Bishop's commissary, has issued a circular letter to the Anglican clergy of the diocese, suggesting that the partially recognised custom of devoting the Good Friday…

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The Butter Trouble

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 7

THE recent advance of one penny per lb. in the Sydney wholesale price of batter has been eagerly notified by various wholesale dealers, as though each one was specially…

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The Butter Trade

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 10

The local butter market is in a very unsettled and unsatisfactory state, owing to the split that has occurred in Sydney between the wholesale sellers. This disagreement has of course…

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The Butter Question?

Evening News · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 5

Dual prices, 9d and 10d, are still quoted in Sussex-street for best creamery, wholesale. The opponents of the advance were jubilant yesterday when one of the tenpenny firms posted…

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Alleged Sheep Stealing

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 April 1897 · page 2

On Tuesday last, before Messrs J. K. Cleeve P.M., J. D. Single, M. Long, and F. D. Woodriff J's.P., William Allen was charged with stealing two sheep, the…

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