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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1900

4,882 stories in Sydney's papers · page 5 of 245

The Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 5

After an interval of about three weeks, the sales were resumed this afternoon, when two firms of selling brokers met the buyers with catalogues aggregating about 5400 bales…

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London Wool Importers

Evening News · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 2

Dalgety and Company, Limited, have received a cablegram from their London house, giving particulars of the principal London wool importers during 1899, the list being as follows:—Dalgety and…

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Fat Stock Sales. Homebush YARDS.—Monday. SHEEP

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 9

About l8,230 sheep and lambs penned at to-day's sales. The sheep included a large number of crossbreds. The quality, taken right through, was only fair; prime sheep somewhat scarce. As the number penned was somewhat…

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Homebush Fat Stock Sales. Monday, Jan., 8, 1900. SHEEP

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 7

18,209 sheep penned, the quality generally being good, with odd lots in prime condition ; but a large number in need of topping up. Ewes were very plentiful…

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Branding Cattle and Flaying Hides. Immense Losses Through Unskilful Treatment

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 7

We have received the following further correspondence on this subject:— 42 Margaret Street, Wynward Square, Sydney, 16th December, 1899. Dear Sir,—The question of the flaying of…

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A Wool Charge. to the Editor " Stock and Station Journal."

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 5

SIR,—As you are on the " warpath " for the wool producers and the " man on the land," I wish you would draw the attention of the…

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SUMMARY. For European Mails. SYDNEY, January 9, 1900. Wool Exports, Season 1899-1900

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 5

Since July 1st, 1899 the quantity of wool exported to oversea ports AMOUNTS TO 393,597 BALES, being a decrease of 77,546 bales as compared…

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The Farmers & Settlers' Co-operative Association, Ltd. Meeting of the Board

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 2

A meeting of the board was held on Thursday and Friday last week, and matters in connection with the new company were discussed. The…

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The Uniform Tariff. Protectionists in Council. No. 5. the Australian Farmer

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 January 1900 · page 7

The interim report of the Conference of Manufacturers contains the following:— "At the outset it was generally agreed that farmers' products should not be dealt with, for the present at…

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Agricultural and Pas­toral

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 8

KEMPSEY, Tuesday.—The outlook for the coming season is most promising. The maize is in a flourishing condition, and, should no flood occur, there is likely to be a record yield…

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London Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 7
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Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Limited, have received the following cable from their London House, dated 8th inst:-- "The list of arrivals has closed for the first series of sales…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 9

Australian Mortgage and Agency Company, Limited, report.—We offered at auction to-day about 2500 bales of wool. Competition was very keen for wood merino for the best lots of fine crossbred and comeback, but medium and…

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The Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 4

The wool sales were resumed in the Sydney market on Monday, when a large attendance of buyers faced the auctioneers. There was a marked difference in the quality and condition of the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 9

The Sydney Wool-selling Brokers' Association report that sales were held yesterday (Tuesday) at the Wool Exchange, Macquane-place, when the quantity catalogued totalled 5901 bales, and the sales amounted to…

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Farm and Station Notes. (By Our Special Commissioner.) Variable Wheat Yields

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 4

It must' be admitted that the drought is responsible for many of the low wheat yields obtained this season, but, at the same time, it is evident from the variable character of the crops in…

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London Wool Sales. London, Jan. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 7

The arrivals of wool for the next sales [?]ount to 195,500 bales, of which 68,500 bales have been forwarded to the manufacturers. The quantity available for…

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Farm, Station, and Dairy Feeding Value of Green Maize

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 4

In order to remove the misapprehension which exists in many farmers' minds as to the feeding value of green maize, we present a summary of the results of American experiments, undertaken…

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English Commercial. London Wool Sales. Arrivals for the First Series

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 6

LONDON. Monday.--The arrivals for the first series of London colonial wool sales in 1900, which will open on Tuesday next, the 16th Inst., have amounted to 195,500 bales, of which 58,500…

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Swimming. the Australasian Championships. the Hundred, the Plunge, and the Mile. Bishop, Coates, and Dick Cavill Successful. The Farm Cove Lad Springs Two Surprises—A Probable word-Beater. Fast Times and Fast Swimmers in Evidence

Referee · Wednesday 10 January 1900 · page 12

JUPITER PLUVIUS..he who is popularly credited with the power to control matters meteorological, was not in a favorable mood last…

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