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Farming & the land, 1900

4,882 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 245

The Wool Sales

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

The wool sales which took place last week in Sydney and Melbourne, were not so buoyant as the closing sales of 1899. Values receded for all…

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Effect of the Droucht. Extensive Sheep Losses

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 1

Evidelnce concerning the disastrous effects of the drought in the Bourke district was [?]ited on Thursday, when members of the sheep board heard…

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Fat Stock Sales. Homebush YARDS.—Monday. SHEEP

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 9

About 21,140 sheep and lames penned at to-day sales. The quality of the sheep ranged from useful trade mutton to prime, included in the prime being a few lots of extra prime crossbred ewes and merino wethers. As the supply…

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New Wool Sale Room. the Sydney Exchange

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

Some of our visiting readers may have noticed the big hoardings going up round the Sydney Exchange. It is the finest business site in…

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Wheat-growing in This Colony. Views of a Victorian

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Monday.--In the course of an interview to-day a member of a leading Victorian exporting firm extending their business to Sydney, and who has just returned from that city,…

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Branding Cattle and Flaying Hides. Immense Losses Through Unskilful Treatment. Vi

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 7

In recent issues of this journal a number of interviews were given with various buyers of hides comparing the New South Wales hides with the…

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The One Exception. [For the Sydney Wool and Stock Journal.]

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 8

She was young, and nlio was fair, Kyes of blue bt-yoml compiire, Golden tresses, rich and rare, And a graceful pose…

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Changes in the Wool Trade. Coming Events Cast their Shadows, etc

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

Rumour has been busy for some time past in regard to the future of the wool trade in Sydney. That important changes are impending we…

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Sydney Wool & Stock Journal. A Bi-Weekly Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades. Published Every Tuesday and Friday. Monday, January 15, 1900

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 5

The supplies at the Homebush sales last week totalled 57,538 sheep and 2,076 head of cattle. As compared with the offerings of the three previous…

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SUMMARY. For European Mails. SYDNEY, January 16, 1900. Wool Exports, Season 180D-1900

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 5

Since July 1st, 1899 the quantity of wool exported to oversea ports AMOUNTS TO 407,370 BALES, being a decrease of bales 71,835 as compared…

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The Farmers & Settlers' Association

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 2

A meeting of the executive council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association is to be held at Goulburn on February 8, and as matters of great…

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Balladoran. the Farmers and Settlers Moving

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 5

A public meeting was held here on the 6th inst. for the purpose of forming a branch of the Farmers and Settlers' Association. Besides a good…

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Dairy News. Albion Park

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 9

The prometors of the Dairy Farmers' Milk Distributing Company held a meeting at Albion Park to-day for the purpose of receiving the delegates' report appointed at the different centres. The…

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The Farmers' Co-operative Company. Kiama

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 7

Widespread regret was felt throughout this district yesterday when it became known that the Farmers' Co-operative Company of New South Wales was going into liquidation. This company was formerly…

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Farmers' Co-operative Company. to Go Into Voluntary Liquidation. a New Company to Be Formed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 7

KIAMA, Monday.--An important meeting of the Shareholders of the Farmers' Co-operative Company of New South Wales was held this afternoon in connection with the action of the City Bank…

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Coolabah Farmers and Settlers Association

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 16 January 1900 · page 3

COOLABAH, Monday.--At the monthly meeting of the Farmers and Settlers' Association on Saturday it was decided to support the Hay branch in a…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 8

WENTWORTH, Monday.—Rain is urgently wanted. The tanks of water which supply the back country are dried up. The River Darling in some parts is only, 6in deep. The country is…

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Wheat

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 6

LONDON, January 16, 5.55 p.m.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 1,860,000 quarters, and for the continent 845,000 quarters…

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Cattle Straying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 10

At last meeting of the Auburn Council three petitions were received from ratepayers protesting against the " hard and tyrannical measures " that had been adopted in regard to impounding horses…

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The Stray Cattle Nuisance

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 17 January 1900 · page 3

After about a year of complaining of damage to gardens, etc., by stray cattle, Auburn established a system of impounding, but it now appears that owners of cows, horses, and goats can also complain, and they are doing…

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