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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 8

COOLAMON, Thursday.—Harvesting is nearly finished. The results are not nearly so good as anticipated, though slightly better than last year. On Tuesday thirteen loads of wheat came into…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

Stock passings 3000 [?]wes, A. Armstrong's, Alma to "Possum Plain, 4430 mixed sheep, Stewart and Co.'s, Wallandool to Delatroy; 2510 ewes, P. B. Heffernan's, Spring Valley and Round Hill to…

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Adulteration of Butter

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 11

A new and particularly malignant form of butter adulteration is reported from Minnesota, where the Food Commissioner is now said to be looking out for weighted butter, complaints…

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Losses of Sheep

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 13

Advices from Brewarrina state that there is a fearful loss of travelling stock between that place and Bundabulla, on the Goodooga-road. There is no water, and the creeks are dry…

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Wool Output

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

The total output of wool from New South Wales during the six months ended December 31, 1899. AMOUNTED TO 528,696 BALES,…

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Sale of Stud Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 2

Mr. E. W. Sparke, of West Maitland, advertises that he will sell on account of Mr. W. H. Tindale, of Sunnyside, Bylong, some choice stud cattle on January 12th…

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The Cattle Tick Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 4

The Minister for Mines and Agriculture will leave for Brisbane on Monday evening, to confer with Mr. Chataway there with respect to the tick in cattle question. Mr. Fegan will be…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, January 4.—The Antwerp wool sales will be held on the 9th and 10th. instant. The catalogue will comprise 5000 bales of which only 20 bales are Australian…

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A Record Wool Cargo

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 4

The largest wool cargo of the season 1899-1900 thus far will he taken by the German-Australian steamer Varzin, which is expected to leave Sydney to-day for Antwerp and Hamburg via ports…

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Fat Stock Sales. Homebush YARDS.—Thursday. SHEEP

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 7

About 36,930 sheep and penne[?] at to-day's sales. The sheep included a large proportion of useful trade mutton and a good percentage of both merino and crossbred ewes; not many prime sheep forward. The…

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Wool-Scouring Plant for Sale

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 13

An exceptional opportunity in offered to tanners, fellmongers, woolscourors, and others to sucure by private sale, as a going concern, a wool-scouring plant, basil tannery, residence,…

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A New Wool-Pulling Process

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 9

Particulars are to hand of a new wool-pulling process which has been patented, and taken up by a Yorkshire syndicate. The invention has the approval of many of the largest fellmongers…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. London, Jan. 4

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 5

ThE Antwerp wool sales will take place on the 9th and 10th instant. The cataloge will comprise 5000 bales, of which only 20 bales are Australian…

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General Cable News. Antwerp Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 5

LONDON, Thursday.--The Antwerp January wool sales will be held on the 9th aud 10th inst. The number of bales catalogued is 5000. Only 20 bales of Australian wool figure on the…

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A Big Wool Shipment. Largest of the Season

The Australian Star · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 5

By the German-Australian liner Varzin,Which left Sydney this morning for Antwerp and Hamburg, was despatched one of the largest wool cargoes ever sent away from the…

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[?]mers and Settlers' [?] Co-operative Association. [?]Portation of Wheat

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 2

[?] exportation of wheat is occupy[?] attention of Mr. Miller, the [?] of the Farmers and Settlers' [?] operative Association. Last year…

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The Wheat-Growers' Position. to the Editor "Stock and Station Journal."

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 4

SIR,—Wheat growing has assumed such extensive dimensions that farmers have got to take up the matter of exportation on their own shoulders, so at to get rid of the…

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The Advances to Settlers Board. the Effects of High Wool Values

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 9

An interesting, and at the same time forcible, illustration of the beneficial effects which the enhanced wool values this season have had on the country is afforded…

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Wool Statistics. Half-Yearly Returns. JULY 1 to Dec. 31, 1899

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 3

The first and more important half of the wool season closed on December 31. It was a half year which pastoralists in particular and every well-wisher of the colony in general…

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Station Properties. Grazing and Agricultural Farm

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 5 January 1900 · page 13

HARRISON, JONES, AND DEVLIS, LTD., Sydney (in conjunction with Mr. S. L. NAIL, of Coonamble), have received instructions from the Curator of Intestate Estates to sell by auction,…

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