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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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The Farmer. Assisting the Soil

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 127

The last lesson which the average Australian farmer learns is that be must feed his soil in order to enable it to stand cropping and yield fair profits. When the land was new and competition was small…

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Dairying Intelligence

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 13

Pursuant to notice, the lessees of the Duckenfield Factory (Messrs. A. M'Arthur and Co.) recently met a representative gathering of suppliers to discuss the proposal to convert the establishment into a co-operative factory,…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 9

No. 121. Butter Meters—Dr. Grerber's invention—Various sizes of machines— Electricity— Paris Green Spray—Insect Pests—Lime—Bordeaux Mixture—…

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Dairy Records

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 19

The average quantity of milk used to make 11b of butter last month at the Woodstock. Factory, Jamberoo, was 23?lb. For the three months ended December 31 the…

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The Farmer's Meat Barrel

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1900 · page 28

The Pickling Barrrel.—After pork or beef is dressed it should be thoroughly cooled before any attempt is made to pack it. While being cooled it should, under no circumstances, be frozen…

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The Wheat Crops

Evening News · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 3

COWRA, Saturday.—The wheat yield here is very: satisfactory, notwithstanding the unfavorable conditions of the latter part of the season. Heavy consignments are arriving daily at the…

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Butter Shipments

Evening News · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 7

Butter shipments for England, by the Orient Company's R.M.S. Ortona on Saturday, were as follows Fresh Food and Ice Company 1050 boxes, Creamery Butter 800, Foley Brothers 750,…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 9

Stock passings: 240 merino wethers and lambs, from Eumalga to Flemington, W. Brownlow owner; 500 bullocks, from Dubbo to Muswellbrook, M'Kay owner, Jones in charge; 600 fat sheep, from…

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Export of Butter

The Australian Star · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 6

The R.M.S. Ortona, which sailed for London on Saturday, took away 5192 boxes of fresh butter for the English market, the shippers being as follow:—D. Anderson, 1560 boxes; Fresh Food…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph

LONDON,—January 19, 6.45 p.m.—At the wool sales this evening a better, spirit prevailed, and there was stronger competition. LONDON, January 20.—At the wool sales…

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Butter for the English Market

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 7

The R.M.S. Ortona, which left Sydney on Saturday took 5912 boxes of butter for the English market. Of that amount 1560 boxes were Queensland. The shippers of the Sydney portion…

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The Wool Trade. Saturday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 3

The event of the week has been the opening of the January senes of sales in London, for there is no doubt that the local salop, important as they were, have been overshadowed, not to say…

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London Wool Sales. London, Jan 19

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 7

At the wool sales a better spirit was shown than during the preceding days of the series. The competition was stronger. Jan. 20…

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The Wool Trade. Broking and Selling in Sydney. a Fresh Arrangement

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 January 1900 · page 3

For some time past a feeling has existed among certain persons interested in the wool trade in Sydney that the present accommodation in Macquarie-place, used by the Selling-brokers'…

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Sheep and Wool. Classification of Sheep at Shows

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 6

Every year when sheep shows come round the same old difficulty of moving sheep that have been wrongly entered into their proper classes always crops…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 2

BEGA, Monday.—A movement is on foot to establish a large co-operative bacon factory in Bega, and Mr. Joshua Britten, who is always a foremost person in the co-operative system…

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Wool Report

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 7

THE CO-OPERATIVE WOOL AND PRODUCE CO., LTD., held their usual weekly sale on Monday afternoon at the Merchants' Exchange, Bridge-street, when…

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Cattle Seized at Homebush

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 4

The Board of Health officers made a seizure at the Homebush sales on Thursday of a draft of 17 cows, as beasts unfit for human consumption. Several of the…

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Railway Wool Traffic

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 January 1900 · page 5

Since July 1 last 453,000 bales of wool have been trained to Darling Harbor, Morpeth, and Newcastle. The corresponding part of last year the traffic covered 535,700 bales. The figures mean…

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