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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1899

5,080 stories in Sydney's papers · page 41 of 250

The Wheat Market. London. Feb. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 March 1899 · page 7

At Mark Lane the price of wheat is 6dper quarter dearer for the week…

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Earm and Station Noies. (By Our Special Commissioner.) Profitable Wheat-growing

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 March 1899 · page 4

In wheat-growing, as every farmer is aware, there is a vast difierence between the returns obtained from a heavy crop compared with a light cne. It does not always follow, however, that…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Inverell

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 7

The following stock passings are recorded:—1800 sheep, from Bundarra to Waterloo, John Sinclair owner; 80 horses, from Glenooe to Inverell, Kirkley and Sons owners; 1900 sheep, from…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 6

LONDON, February 28.—The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,750,000 quarter, or 130,000 quarters more than last week, and for the…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 6

LONDON, March 1.—The arrivals of wool for the next series of sales amount to 263,000 bales. The quantity forwarded direct to the manufacturers is 107,000 bales, and the…

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London Wool Sales. London, Mar. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 7

The arrivals of wool for the next series of sales amount to 263,000 bales. The quantity forwarded direet to the manufacturers is 107,000 bales, and the…

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London Wool Market. London. Jan. 27

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 9

The attendance of buyers at the wool auctions new progressing continues good, and the spirit full of autmation. Since last mail some excellent parcels of Victorian, New South Wales, and Queensland…

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Wool Exports. Season 1898-9 Eight Months Ended Feb. 28, 1899

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 2

The total quantity of wool exported from New South Wales (intercolonial excepted) amounted to 595,958 bales…

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Dairying Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 March 1899 · page 9

GERRINGONG, Wednesday. -- The majority of suppliers of milk to the factories are sending to the Sydney Milk Company, who find a difficulty in securing enough for their customers…

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Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 7

711 yarded, 709 sold. There was only a moderate per centage of good been in the yarding, with a slight sprinkling of prime quality beasts. This statement applies to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 3

TAMWORTH, Wednesday.—Entries for the annual show of the Liverpool Plains Pastoral, Agricultural, and Horticultural Association, to be held next Wednesday and Thursday, closed last night…

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Pastoral Finance Association, Limited

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 7

Since our last report we have no change to chronicle under this heading. In private transactions, as was also the case at the last auc tions, we find that the demand on Japanese…

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Seed Wheat to Farmers. Distribution by the Government

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 3

After the Preier had replied to the above deputation, the representatives of the Farmers' and Settlers Association waited on Mr. Cook, the Minister for Mines and agriculture, and asked…

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Australian Produce in Europe. Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 5

LONDON, January 27. -- The market is a shade firmer. Eleven thousand quarters of Victorian wheat shipped in January have been sold at 28s 3d, and 9000 shipped in February at 28s 3d. At…

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Seed Wheat. Concussions in Freight

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 4

Having been approached in reference to making a reduction in rules for the carriage of seed wheat to distressed farmers, the Railway Commissioners…

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As Others See Us. the Wheat Question

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 8

The other day a friend in Paris Bond me a copy of an illustrated literary paper in which a M. Jean Frollo discusses the production of wheat. He…

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Sydney Wool & Stock Journal. A Bi-Weekly Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades. Published Evert Tuksday and Friday, Friday, March 3, 1899. the Wool Trade. Sydney, Thursday, March 2

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 6

A comparatively quiet week has been passed in the local market, transactions being confined to the placing of lots passed in at last week's auctions: and it…

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A Clip of Wool. From Shearing Shed to Ship. Xii

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 10

Without attempting to go minutely into the details of the process of scouring, there are one or two matters in connection with the action of water on wool…

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Distribution of Seed Wheat. Deputation to Mr. Cook. a Favorable Reply

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 4

The deputation that waited upon the Premier yesterday to request assistance for distressed settlers also interviewed the Minister for Mines (Mr. Cook) with regard to the distribution by…

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The Farmers and Settlers. Imputation to the Minister for Lands

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 3

A muddle was made over the date for a deputation on the subject of relief to settlors, but u few representatives saw tho Minister for Lands…

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