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Farming & the land, 1900

4,882 stories in Sydney's papers · page 31 of 245

Sheep and Wool

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 5

Last Tuesday morning I had the pleasure of inspecting 71 high-class stud ewes that had only the day before arrived from Tasmania. They were…

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American Sheep Notes

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 15

The establishment of first-class breading farms and flocks in northern Wisconsin by such eminent sheep breeders as PRof. J. A. Craig and Geo. McKerrow has much significance…

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Wool Report

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 2

THE CO-OPERATIVE WOOL AND PRODUCE CO., LTD., held their usual sale yesterday afternoon at the Bridge-street Exchange, when they offered 2176…

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Wool Receipts

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 3

The following table indicates the total quantity of wool received each day at Sydney and Newcastle during the month of February: Date, By Rail, Sea, Imported, Newcastle…

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Wool Report

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 2

PITT, SON AND BADGERY LTD., REPORT— In accordance with the roster of wool sales, we submitted yesterday a catalogue of…

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A Curious Sheep Disease

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 16

A report received this week from Warrumbungle (in the Mudgee district) states that a peculiar disease has borken out among the sheep belonging to Mr. R. N. M'Gill, of Ashby…

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Wheat and Flour

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 13

Feb. 14.—The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Limited: The market is firm…

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That Seed Wheat

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 5

The announcement made recently to the effect that the Government intended to go to extreme measures to recover payment for seed wheat…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 3

At the various wool sales held on Wednesday 3498 bales were offered, the sales under the hammer amounted to 2436 bales, which, together with 685 bales sold privately, totalled for the day 3121…

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Technical College Wool Class

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 5

The sheep and wool department of the Technical College is again in full swing, and when I went up there last week to have a look round I saw the…

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Intercolonial Fat Stock Sales. Melbourne. Sheep

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 4

On Tuesday 12,500 sheep were penned. In view of the market being moderately supplied, both as regards number and quality, together with the favourable change in the weather, the…

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Australian Butter. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 3

Sir,—Your able leader of 12th instant with reference to the deterioration of Australian butter raises questions of the utmost importance to the dairy industry, and for which, therefore, the community is…

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London Wool Sales. London, Feb. 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 7

The third series of London wool sales will open on May 8. The quantity to be offered is limited to 300,000 bales…

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Changes in the Wool Trade. a Curious Combine

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 2

An advertisement appears in the "Herald" and "Telegraph" (but not in the "Stock Journal") to the effect that the Woolbrokers' Association will…

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Australian Wheat. London, February 15, 6.30 a.m

The Australian Star · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 5

Ten thousand quarters of South Australian wheat to arrive this month have been sold for 29s 6d per quarter…

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Sydney Wool & Stoch Journal. A Bi-Weekly Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades. Published Every Tursday and Friday. the Wool Trade. Sydney, Thursday, Feb. 15

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 6

Under ordinary circumstances the sales would have been held last week, but reports from all quarters were of such a discouraging nature that a postponement…

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London Wool Sales. London, February 15,10.44 a.m

The Australian Star · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 3

The third series of London wool sales will open on May 81 The quantity to be offered is limited to 300,000 bales. Messrs, Dalgety and Co., Limited, are in…

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Classification of Sheep at Shows. MR. W. H. Webb's Reply to the Hon. G. H. COX, M.L.C. to the Editor "Stock and Station Journal"

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 5

Sir,—When I penned my few lines to you recently upon the classification of sheep at shows, I little thought that one of the oldest and best…

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Farmers and Settlers

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 4

THE Farmers and Settlers' Association is slowly but surely gathering strength! Branches are forming in every part of the…

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At the Front. Operations Around Colesberg. Australians at Work. Scouting, Patrolling, Reconnoitring. Lancers in Action. a Gallant Advance. the Disaster to a Patrol. the Affair at Norval's Farm. a Regular Trap. Sad Memory for New South Wales. Coolness of Lieutenant Dowling. Narratives of Survivors. Finding the Dead and Wounded. Scene of the Fight. [All Rights Reserved.] Rensburg Camp (near Colesberg), Jan. 16

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 February 1900 · page 7

My last letter was writen just after our Lancers had made an attempt to recapture the runaway railway trucks. They did all that could be asked of them, and if they had been allowed to stay…

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