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Farming & the land, 1898

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Preparing Land for Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 22

Ploughing and preparing land to receive the seed wiieat are already in progress in many of the wheat growing areas in this colony; but where the work is in a backward state it should be pushed…

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Butter and Cheese. London, March 10

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 6

In the butter market the demand is slow. Colonial butter is realising from 100s to 104s, a few choice lots bringing 106s. Danish is selling at from 106s to 110s per cwt…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 12

After a three weeks' interval sales were resumed in the Sydney market on the 9th and 10th instant, when 5782 bales were catalogued. There was a good attendance of buyers, all sections being well…

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Wheat From India. London, March 11

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 5

It is estimated that during the coming wheat season India will export 1,000,000 tons of wheat, valued at 10 crores of rupees (£10,000,000…

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Injustice to Australian Catholics. the School Question. the Lenten Pastoral of Archbishop Carr

The Catholic Press · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 9

The Archbishop of Melbourne in his Lenten Pastoral writes of the education question in Victoria in the following words:— During the course of last year a…

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The Bishop of Wilcannia's Pastoral. the Catholic Home. "The Deadliest of All Errors."

The Catholic Press · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 19

The Right Rev. Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Wilcannia in his Lenten Pastoral writes : " The Church has good reason to exhort her children to spend the Lenten time well…

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Serious Assault on a Farmer. Four to One. the Assailants Arrested

The Catholic Press · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 3

To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experiences we know of…

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Serious Assault on a Farmer Four to One. the Assailants Arrested

Evening News · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 3

To be set upon fay roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experiences we know of Such, though, was the…

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Experiments on the Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 525

Theory is a Will o' the Wisp that hoe led many a good man a lively dance into the mortgage bank, off his land, and with a hop, skip, and a jump through the Bankruptcy Court. But if…

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Dairy. a "Striding" Industry

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 527

Dairy farmers ought to be convinced by this time that the dairying industry in Australia has made astounding progress. "The wonderful strides that dairying has made" is so inevitable in all public…

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The Farmer. Shutting Out Diseased Fruit

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 526

Consternation prevails amongst shippers and consignors of fruits in other colonies, who for years past have made the port of Sydney and the intercolonial railways rubbish shoots, through which they…

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Crop Reports

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 528

Recent rains in the Chatsworth. Island district are unwelcome, as the farming lands were thoroughly saturated previously, and agricultural operations are suspended indefinitely in consequence. The young…

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Farmers' Grievances. (To the Editor.)

The Australian Star · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 2

Sir,--I beg to call the attention of the public (through your columns) to the disgraceful way in which the farmers of this colony are being treated by the Railway Commissioners…

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New Zealand. the Ward Farmers' Association

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 9

DUNEDIN, Friday.--Mr. Justice Williams has declined to make an order instructing the liquidators of the Ward Farmers' Association to prosecute Messrs. Ward and Fisher. It was…

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Farm and Garden Original Articles

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 9

NO. 24.—THE CARROT (continued)—CULTIVATION —SEEDS—SEPARATION—HOW TO SOW—SOME LARGE CARROTS—LIABILITY TO BE ATTACKED BY INSECTS—CANKER…

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Trapping Enemies of the Farm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 21

The body of the trap illustrated below is made of four pieces of 6in fencing boards 20in to 24in long, nailed together to make a narrow box open at one end (says Dr, Asa Bowman). The top piece…

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Dainty Dairying

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 22

Dairymen able to prepare their gocds in an attractive manner will find customers in even small villages, where others cannot make sales. The appearance pleases, and when the quality is found…

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Dairy Records

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 12 March 1898 · page 17

The Chatsworth Island Creamery during February treated 10,890gal of milk. The total quantity of milk received at the Gurrundah Butter Factory for the year was…

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Indian Wheat Export. London. March 11

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 March 1898 · page 7

The export of wheat from India for the season amounts to a million tons…

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Serious Assault on a Farmer. Four to One. the Assailants Arrested

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 March 1898 · page 11

To be set upon by roughs and almost killed after going through nearly 60 years of life without accident to health or limb is one of the hardest experiences we know of. Such,…

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