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Farming & the land, 1899

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A Baby Farming Case

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 April 1899 · page 5

Mana Theresa Thornton was tried to-day for the manslaughter of an infant she had adopted, for the sum of £7, and Mr. Justice Hood expressed the opinion that adopting children for…

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Pastoral Products Albury Stock Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 7

ALBURY, Wednesday.--There was again a good demand for store sheep at the Albury stock sales to-day, and Victorian and local buyers competed briskly for suitable lots. Fat sheep sold up to 14 for crossbreds, ewes…

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Victorian Wheat Cargoes

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.--Twelve thousand three hundred quarters of Victorian wheat, January shipment, per ship Grassdale, have realised 28s 3d per quarter…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 6

LONDON, April 19.—The Grassendale's cargo of 12,300 quarters Victorian wheat, January shipment, has been sold at 28s 3d January shipment, has been sold at 38s 3d per quarter…

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Stray Cattle on Railway Lines

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 6

BLAYNEY, Wednesday.--At the local court tills morning several people at Millthorpe were charged with allowing cattle to stray on the railway lines. The police magistrate, Mr. Byrnes,…

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English Commercial. Wheat Supplies

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday.--The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,120,000 quarters or 15,000 quarters less than last week. The quantity afloat for the…

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Experiments in Wheat Culture

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 5

In view of the increasing importance of the wheat industry in New South Wales, the Minister for Agriculture considered it desirable that trials should be made here with the varieties of…

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The Wheat Market. London, April 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 7

The Grassendale's cargo of 12,300 quarters Victorian wheat, January shipment, has been sold at 28s 3d per quarter…

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English Commercial. Wheat Supplies. LONDON, April 18, 5.45 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 6

The quantity of wheat and flour afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,120,000 quarters, or 15,000 less than last week. The quantity afloat for the Continent is…

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The Botany Sewage Farm

The Australian Star · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 7

At a recent meeting of the Water and Sewerage Board a report of several systems of sewerage filtration was received, discussed, and ordered to be copied and circulated…

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Suicide of a Farmer

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 6

WAGGA, Wednesday.--James white, a farmer at Tarcutta, shot himself yesterday. At the inquest to-day it was stated that for the past two months deceased had been somewhat strange in…

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Dairying Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 20 April 1899 · page 7

SINGLETON, Wednesday.--In the course of an address, delivered at a farmers' union Mr. W. S. Campbell, of the Department of Agriculture, said that the great mistake this colony made in the matter of butter…

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Cattle

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 4

520 fat cattle yarded and sold, the bulk being of excellent trade quality and moderate weights. The demand was uneven, and prices fluctuated. With the aid of shippers slighlty…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 7

NEWCASTLE, Thursday.—The Wallsend A H.P., P., Society have decided to dispense with their winter show, owing to the series of losses the society had sustained during late years. At…

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Pastoral Financo Association. Limited

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 7

The [?] effected a ther auction sales have left but litle wool to be dealt with this week, the market now being almost entirely dependent for supplies on the local…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Corowa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 4

1885 merine wethers to Numurkah (Vic.), via Tocumwal, Kilpatrick and Co., owners; 52 fat bullocks, Albury to Narrow Plain, via Daysdale, P. O'Keefe owner; 8 bullocks and 19 lambs from…

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American Wheat

Evening News · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 6

LONDON, April 20.—The visible supply of American wheat, according to "Bread street's," is 51,161,000 bushels…

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A Stampede of Cattle

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 10

The most desperate stampede of cattle ever witnessed occurred some years ago on the Texas prairie, when 15,000 cattle and 25 cowboys look part in the exciting event…

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Wheat and Flour

The Australian Star · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 2

According to "Bradstreet," the American visible supply of wheat and flour cast of the Rockies amounts to 51,161,000 bushels…

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American Wheat Supplies

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 April 1899 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday.--The "visible" supply of wheat in the United States amounts to 51,161,000 bushels, as compared with 51,747,000 bushels last week, and with 39,141,000 bushels in…

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