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Farming & the land, 1899

5,080 stories in Sydney's papers · page 42 of 250

A Chinaman's Duck Farm

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 3 March 1899 · page 8

About a mile from the Rockdale railway station there a large duck and pig farm conducted by a Chinaman. To assist in feeding over 100 ducks and some 50 pigs, the refuse from hotels is carted to the farm and "boiled…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 15
Also in Evening News

There has been a difficulty for some time between the Government and the proprietors of vineyards which have come under the operation of the act, owing to the phylloxera pest, as to the…

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Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 49

The English wheat market is cabled as steady, although business in Mark Lane continues quiet The American visible supply shows a decrease of 187,000 bushels since previous week. The…

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Export of Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 9
Also in Evening News

The Aberdeen White Star liner Nineveh, which sailed yesterday for London, Natal, and Capetown via ports, took away 2732 boxes and 26 half-boxes of butter, 2442 boxes and the 26 half-boxes being…

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The Butter Market

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 8

The butter market continues sluggish, and colonial is again lower on the week. Australian is quoted at 94s to 98s per cwt., a fall of 2s. Danish butter remains at 107s per cwt…

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Cattle-Feeding Experiments

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 28

The object of a bullock- feeding experiment, carried out at Woburn last winter, as described by Dr. Voelcker in the "R.A.S. Journal," was to test the value of dried grains against that of good…

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The Wool Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 9

Iho quantity of wool received at Newe[?]stile for direct shipment to London during the week ended to-day was 660 bales, making a total of 56,392 biles received since the commencement of the season, as…

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Wool Carriage Tender

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 9

The Railway Commissioners have accepted the tender of Messrs. James M'Mahon and Co. for the delivery of wool from Darling Harbor to the stores at Circular Quay. The extent of the…

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London Butter Market. LONDON, Jan. 20

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 486

For the first time this season Australian "choicest" butter has been sold at less than 100s per cwt., and this reduction is due, without any doubt, to the want of proper…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 16

That the wool season is coming to a close earlier than usual its evidenced by the offerings at last week's auctions, at which the quantities catalogued barely totalled 7000 bales. Comparatively small, however, as the…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 5

Locally a quiet week has been passed, and in this respect the Sydney market is on all fours with every other part of the world where wool is sold. The sales in Antwerp are over—the eyes of the…

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Testing Milk for Cheese. Fair Plan for Butter

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 488

Buying milk by the Babcock test is only another way of expressing the idea of paying according to the per cent, of fat in milk. In the Babcock test, we have an easy and accurate method of determining…

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The Lakeside Wool Scouring Works, Botany

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 506

FROM the wool-growers' point of view, there are among the numerous sights of Sydney perhaps few of greater interest than those to be obtained by a visit to the Lakeside Wool Scouting Mills at Botany…

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Farm, Station, and Dairy. Well-balanced Rations for Cows

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 14

It is a common experience with those dairyfarmers who have rich meadows, producing ryegrass and clover, to find their cows, which milked splendidly on the natural pasture in the spring,…

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The Settler. Items for Farmers and Graziers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 26

In the Drouin district, Gippsland, it is estimated that the oat crop will average 32 bushels per acre, and the yield of potatoes about 6 tons per acre. Mr. Pat Donnellan, of the Mudgee district, got…

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Assault and Robbery. a Farmer Waylaid

Evening News · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 5

NARRANDERA, Saturday.—Some excitement was caused in town yesterday, when it became known that Mr. Arthur Davenport, a farmer, residing in this district, when about two miles on…

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Science in Farming

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 503

The short article on "The Scientific Aspect of Firming," which Professor Wrightson contributes to the 1899 edition of "Vinton's Agricultural Almanac," is one of the best balanced expositions on…

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The Farmer. Starting New Wheats

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 March 1899 · page 486

Some very interesting notes on the improvement of wheats were supplied recently in a paper by Mr. Sydney Street, who started the widely-known "Street's Imperial" and "Street's Excelsior." Mr…

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