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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

4,882 stories in Sydney's papers · page 44 of 245

The Export of Australian Live Stock. Up-to-date Cattle Ships Required. I.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 545

It is barely six years since strong efforts were made to establish a live-cattle export trade with Great Britain, principally through the action of Messrs. M'Ilwraith, M'Eacharn, and Co., who sent…

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London Wool Sales. Merinos Hardening. LONDON, March 8, 6.45 p.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 6

At the London wool sales today mere was a brisk competition and good sale. The price of merinos showed a tendency to harden slightly…

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At the Sheaf of Wheat. a Tale of the Rising of 1803. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Xxiii. (Continues.)

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 2

MR. Holmes was sorry now that he had not mentioned the conversation he had had with the strange young lady to the detective; but he thought, on the other hand, and so consoled himself, that she…

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Farm and Garden Seasonable Reminders for March

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 8

Vegetable Garden —Sow largely cabbage (im, ported seed only), radish, spinach, lettuce, onions broad beans, parsley, watercress, and smaller sowings of turnip, beet, carrot, parsnip, peas and…

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Bad Farming: Disastrous Results

The Catholic Press · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 3

Tho Melbourne " Ago" says the Indian famine is due principally to defective cultivation. The startling decrease in the average of cane crops in Queensland is due to…

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The Settler. Farm Items

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 26

At a sale of sheep at Cooma, maiden ewes brought to 12s 9d, wether hoggets 103 1d, mixed weaners 7s 2d. The above prices are higher than for years past…

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Cultivation of Potato Crops

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 26

"A STITCH in time save nine," is (says Mr. J.S. Woodward in his report of Canadian Farmers' Institutes) as true in the potato field as anywhere else. The easiest time to kill weeds is before there are…

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Tips for Warwick Farm Races. Hurdle Race

The Elector · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 8

COMMISSIONER 1 Havelock 2 Landmark 3 STEWARDS' MILE…

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Farmrrs in Legislation. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 4

Sir,—Al the presentation of prizes to the students at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College on Wednesday lost 1 understood the Minister for Agriculture, Mr Fegun, to say that farmers were now taking…

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Warwick Farm Race Club

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 14

A raes meeting will be held at Warwick Farm today, and judging by the character of the nominations some interesting sport is in store for those who journey so far. The course is one of the best…

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An American View of Tasmanian Farming

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 564

Let us in imagination fancy a United States farmer turned adrift on the small island in the southern hemisphere known as Tasmania. His real thoughts he would doubtless be cute enough to keep to…

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Hints on Selecting a Dairy Cow

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 548

Among the points to which attention should be given in making choice of suitable cows for a butter dairy, the digestive organs are important. Where these are defective good milch cows are rarely met with, since these organs…

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The Most Costly Farms in the World

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 547

Some of the finest farms in the world are (writes the "Golden Penny") those worked by a number of New York millionaires. It has been calculated that the produce obtained from 17 of these extensive…

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Dairy. Can Fat Be Fed Into Milk?

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 546

Experts still stand firmly by the theory that it is impossible to feed fat into milk. I have read records of many special experiments conducted with a view to putting the matter to the test, but none…

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The Farmer. Mules for Australia

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 546

A number of inquiries and suggestions on the subject of introducing mules for general farm work have reached use from time to time. Draught horses stand the ordinary work very well in cool climates, but in…

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Farm Laborer's Claim for Wages. Application for a Prohibition

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 14

Judgment was deliverd by Mr. Justice Owen on behalf of Mr. Justice G. H. Simpson and Mr. Justice Walkers and himself in the mailer of ex-parte Clara Eliza de Mestre, an application for a prohibition…

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Farm and Garden. Original Articles

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 9

No. 1[?]8. Smut in Grain—Barley—Oats— Jensen's Hot Water Method—Sleeping— Two Vessels— Baskets—Sooketa—How Steeped—Green Vegetables—Molasses as…

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Bearing Dairy Calves

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 30

Those who have had experience in both methods readily admit that there is a very appreciable difference between rearing calves on skim milk obtained by the gravity process and that…

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Care of Dairy Calves

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 30

Care of dairy calves is the most influential factor in the development of a good dairy herd. It has been advocated by some authorities that the calf should have two or three meals direct from…

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Departure of New South Wales Bushmen for the War. (Photo by Our Special Artist Taken by Kind Permission of Messrs. Farmer and Co. From the Portico of Their Pitt-street Premises.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 10 March 1900 · page 22

THE PROCESSION IN PITT-STREET, PASSING MARKET-STREET CORNER…

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