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Farming & the land, 1899

5,080 stories in Sydney's papers · page 70 of 250

London Butter Market. LONDON, March 3

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 838

Year by year the regular weekly mail steamers cease to carry butter about the middle of February, and devote their refrigerated space to the transport of apples. Against this…

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From Wool to Coat

Evening News · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 3

T is no new thing for us to see records established one day and beaten the next, the top place nowadays…

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The London Wool Market

The Australian Star · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 11

Messrs. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin report having received from their London agents, Messrs. Sanderson, Murray and Co., the following cablegram:--"April 13,--Sheepskins:…

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The Demand for Wool

Evening News · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 2

Just now merino wool may be said to be fairly booming. The light supply, together with a tendency towards trade expansion, is of course…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 19

Owing to the recent holidays, there is not much business in the local wool market to review, such transactions as have taken place being on the very firm basis recently ruling. Nepean scoured wool has…

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The Brisbane Wool Market

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 19

Messrs. B. D.Morehead anti Company, in their weekly wool and produce report, say: Owing to the Easter holidays tho wool trade has been very quiet. Freights to England have advanced, and this may tend to steady…

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The Outcast —OR—The Black Sheep of the Family

The St Georges Advocate · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 4

The Tale abounds with Startling Situations. and is Pathetic and Sensational in the highest degree. It shows the Good and Bad Side of…

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Our Bradford Wool Letter. BRADFORD, March 3

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 840

The question of wool and its future supply has been very much to the front during the past few weeks. Some rather high-sounding statements have been made about wool being now a "by-product,"…

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Pasteurisation. FROM A. Butter-making Point of View. Ii. the Process

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 839

This is simply the heating or raising of the temperature of the milk in a suitable machine to get rid of the bacteria which are detrimental to the butter-maker. These species are destroyed at a temperature…

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Farm, Station, and Dairy. Soil Fertility

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 14

In the whole range of agricultural science, there is no subject of greater practical importance than that of soil fertility, for its vitality concerns the permanence of the industry. We are…

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WOOL Manifested at Darling Harbour, Friday, April 14, 1899

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 3

Dangar, Gedye and Co— Emu Plains 32—MB in diamond/Nepean H Haigh and Son— Liverpool 31—Randwick…

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"Lana" on Tasmanian Sheep. to the Agricultural Editor of the "Sydney Mall."

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 841

Sir,—Re "Lana" in "Review of New South Wales Sheepbreeders' Association's Schedule" in your issue of 25th ult. I, as an outside observer, constantly reading your…

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Wool and Fat Stock. Effects of the Late Drought. Prospects of High Prices

Evening News · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 3

In further pursuance of our desire to place woolgrowers and raisers of stock in possession of the opinions of competent authorities in the city, as to be probable trend of the Homebush and…

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Items of Interest for Farmers and Graziers

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 26

The weight of the mammoth pumpkin at the Royal Agricultural Society's Show was 1451bs. Asparagus is so plentiful on the Russian steppes that the cattle eat it like grass. The seeds are…

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Dairy News. Lismore

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 11

The New South Wales Creamery Company manufactured 78½ tons of butter during March. ROBERTSON, Friday. During the month of March the Waratah Dairy…

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Dairy. Type v. TESTS

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 839

The actual value of the butter test competition would be difficult to define. A number of cows that put up good records in showgrounds are, undoubtedly, very valuable producers. At the same…

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The Farmer. Light and Heavy Sowing

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 838

Controversy on the subject of seeding lightly or heavily breaks out every now aud then, and some useful information is usually contributed. Advanced agriculturists are unanimously in favour of…

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Rogers Visitors a Dairy Story

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 870

The bells of St. John's Church were ringing for evening service. They sounded very pleasantly, and if Roger Gormley had not been a very naughty boy he would have been going with his mother…

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Fruit Export Trade. Citrus Crop Prospects. the African Packing System. Indian Wax Scale on Mandarins

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 4

There is little that is fresh to say respecting the prospects of the citrus crop. Most growers are more hopeful than they have been, owing to the two partial waterings, and the fact that in the…

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Farm & Garden. Original Articles

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 15 April 1899 · page 9

No. 82. Timbers (continued)—Dogwood— Description — Bark — Leaves—Flowers— Berries—Wood—The Alburnum—Uses— Ink—Oharooal — Gunpowder — Medicinal…

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