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Farming & the land, 1899

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Price of Butter

Evening News · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 5

The Fresh Food and Ice Company has advanced the price of best creamery to lOd per lb; pasteurised, 10½d…

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The Argentine Wheat Crop. London, March 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 9

The recent storms at Buenos Ayres destroyed 300,000 tons of wheat…

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The Cork Butter Market

The Catholic Press · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 1

It is exceedingly gratifying to learn that the Cork Butter Market is quickly regaining its former prestige. With the introduction of creameries there were many who…

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The Grazier. Butter-Making

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 28

The following concise description of buttermaking is published in reply to a question asked by a correspondent: The most important point to consider in the…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 6

LONDON, March 10.—At the wool sales last night, the following rates were realised: Lismore, 5[?]d; Breeza, 8[?]d; Stonyhurst, 8¼d; Marathon, 8½d; Yanko, 9¼d; Cominda, 10d; Mount Bute,…

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The Wool Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 10

The quantity of wool received at Newcastle for direct shipment to London during the week ended to-day was 357 bales, making a total of 56,749 biles received since the commencement of the season, as…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 5

LONDON, March 10, 6.35 p.m.—At the wool sales this evening there was good buying, and prices for all classes are hardening…

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The Grazier. Imported German Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 546

By the North German Lloyd's S.S. Prinz Regent Luitpold there arrived on Monday last two pure-bred Rambouillet rams from Bremen. It is a long time since we had sheep of that type out. I availed…

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Great Destruction of Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 9

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--Storms have destroyed 300,000 tons of wheat at Buenos Ayres…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 16

Since our last issue the wool business of the port has been unusually quiet. There is very little locally scoured wool availlable for private sale, and the somewhat meagre country arrivals are reserved for the…

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Australasian Produce in Europe. Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 11

LONDON, February 3.--The market is decidedly weaker thou it was at the end of last month, and the larger surpluses from Australia and Russia have depressed prices about 6d a quarter. Buyers…

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Pastoral Lessees. To the Editor of the "Evening News."

Evening News · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 3

Sir,—At a time like the present when sympathy and just sympathy is being extended to settlers in New South Wales, cannot something be done for the pastoral lessees in the Central Division Who lease purely…

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Farm, Station, and Dairy. Rape Versus Clover for Pigs

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 14

It may seem almost farcical to speak of growling tape or any other crop to the thousands of men who are almost in despair over this disastrous drought. Some of us have seen our thousands…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 10, 6.25 p.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 9

There is a sale in the wool market, and all cla[?]ses are hardening…

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Our Note-book. Turf Talk and Tips. Doncaster Handicap and Sidney Cup Weights. Racing at Randwick—The V.R.C. Meeting—Bo[?] Keeps Scoring. To-day's Probailities. Selections for Warwick Farm (By "The Captain.")

The Arrow · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 6

To-day local racing will be at Warwick Farm, where the programme looks a pretty good one. The handicap are by Mr. J. Daly. I have marked off the following lot…

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The Settler. Items for Farmers and Graziers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 26

The farmers at Nimitybelle complain bitterly of the ravages of the crops by hares and parrots. Mr. J C. Ryrie, of Weemabah, New South Wales, now owns four properties in Queensland…

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The Farmer. Belief to Settlers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 547

Several leading members of the Farmers and Settlers' Association had a very busy time in Sydney last week. They formed two important deputations, representing a large number of settlers in several…

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Dairy. Pig Feeding

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 547

Some interesting experiments have been carried out on the Canadian experimental farm in connection with pig-feeding, and the weight gained by using different kinds of food. Fed with shorts it took…

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Windsor Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 588

As a horsemaster Mr. James Gosper is very favourably known among the Sydney racing men, many of whom send him their tired-out racehorses to rejuvenate, and right well he does his work, as the…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 11 March 1899 · page 9

No. 76 The Maple (continued)—The Common Maple—Its Timbers—Highly-Prized —The Norway Maple—Proof against inseets—Uses—The Sugar or Rook Maple—…

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