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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

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Dairy News. Moruya

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

The balance-sheet for the year of the [?] Dairy Factory shows that 438, 729lb. of milk were treated and 412,8841b. of checse which realised £341 0s 8d. Suppliers were paid £653 3s 4d…

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Weather, Pastoral, Crops, &c

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 8

At the date of writing, January 2, we may say that we have entered the year 1900 inauspiciously from a pastoralists' point of view. Nearly three weeks' continued heat in the Interior lettered only by…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 3
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ARMIDALE, Friday.—In answer to an application by the Armidale Pastoral and Agricultural Society, the Agricultural Department has offered to allow the imported Jersey bull to come to this district for a season…

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Butter Shipments

Evening News · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 4

Included in the cargo of the R.M.S. Cuzco to-day for London, via ports, was a large quantity— 4042 boxes—of butter for the English market. The shippers, with their respective consignments…

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The Butter Trade

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 7

That the course of the butter trade this year has been more than usually adverse to consumers cannot be denied, and it has now (says the "English Grocer") accomplished another run of abnormally…

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Export of Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 9

The mail steamer Cuzco, which sails from Sydney to-day for London via ports, takes 4042 boxes of butter for the English market. The shippers are: N.S.W. Creamery Butter Company, 1000…

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The Wheat Crops. the Tamworth District

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 33

The condition of affairs in the Tamworth district [?] season is in striking contrast to that in the [?] Riv[?]kely that [?] year be favoured…

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The Wheat Estimate

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 11

The "Advertiser's" early forecast of this season's wheat harvest states that the area reaped for wheat will probably be only slightly greater than that of last season, as, although a greater…

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The Wool Fleet

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 7

W. and A. M'Arthur, Limited, have completed the loading of another vessel, the Gulf of Genoa being ready to sail to-day for Durban, Capetown, and London. The ship Old Kensington, which is…

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The Wool Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 10

The quantity of wool received at Newcastle for direct shipment to London during the week ended to-day was 245 bales, making a total of 35,199 bales received since the commencement of the present season, as compared with…

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The Prevention of Parasitic Diseases in Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 8

There can be little doubt that in this department of agriculture many have found salvation from insolvency, and not a few have achieved an enviable share of prosperity, while to some sheep husbandry has proved a disastrous…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 11

After a welcome respite of nearly three weeks, appreciated alike by buyers and sellers, active and regular business will be resumed on Monday, 8th instant, on which day, and the three…

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

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 6 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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At the Sheaf of Wheat. a Tale of the Rising of 1803. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Xvi

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 2

THERE was not, one hundred years ago, any of those arrangements for storing treasures and monies which the great banking firms now employ. Nor, indeed, was there any necessity. If the means of…

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Farm and Garden Seasonable Reminders for January

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 8

Field.—It should be decided at once whether land that was under grain is to go to grass or be prepared for other crops. If the latter, or it is new land for cropping, then the sooner it is broken up…

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The Farmer. Prospects in New Zealand

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 6

Mr. John D. Ritchie, Secretary for Agriculture New Zealand, is an enthusiastic agriculturist, keen interested in live stock and in farming operation dairying, and in fact all forms of production fr[?]…

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Dairy. the Breeds in New Zealand

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 7

Men who are watching the lire stock of New Zealand closely are beginning to complain of the same want that is felt in the Australian colonies. While Australians are occasionally importing from New…

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A New Jersey Fruit Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 10

A Start with Apples.—There are many fertile and well-managed farms about the Tillage of Hightstown, N.J., but probably the most profitable of them all has been conducted by Isaac L. Davison for over 20 years. When he…

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Appeal to Pastoralists and Farmers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1900 · page 16

[?] v. John [?] hon. secretary of the [?] to [?] a bushman's [?] he [?] will be [?] history of Great [?]…

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