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Farming & the land, 1900

4,882 stories in Sydney's papers · page 86 of 245

London Wool Sales. London, May 15, 6.55 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 6

At the wool sales to-day there was a better sale, and prices for crossbreds hardened slightly. Merinos remained unchanged…

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Drought-stricken West. Great Destruction of Sheep. Twenty Thousand Lost in One Season. Ruin Staring Settlers in the Face. Sheep Fed on Trees. a Good Rainfall. Back From the Wilderness

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 6

BOURKE, Wednesday.--The remnant of the Parliamentary party which sot out last Sunday on a tour of exploration of the wilds of the west returned to civilisation to-day, after covering…

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Law. Wednesday, May 16. Sheep Sale Contract. New Trial Application. an Important Judgment. the Words "More or Less."

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 8

Argument was continued on an application made before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Owen, and Mr. Justice Cohen, to make absolute a rule nisi for a new trial in the case in which Thomas Reilly, of Team, grazier, and…

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Dairy News. Moruya

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 9

The Moruya Cheese Factory this month pnicl 5d per gallon for 18,560 gallons of milk supplied during the month of March. ROBERTSON, Wednesday…

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A Visit to Brush Farm. the Carpenterian Reformatory

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 4

Among the many beautiful places circumjacenl to Sydney, Brush Farm has signal claims to distinction. Within 15 minutes' walk of Eastwood railway station this farm reformatory occupies some…

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Cronje—fighter and Farmer. a Personal Sketch. the Raoe Problem. Rhodes and His Schemes. [All Rights Reserved.] Newlands (Near Capetown), March 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 4

I had the good luck, while at Simon's Town to get a glimpse of Cronje, the man about whom the whole world was just then talking, and whom half the world—the half that hates Great Britain and all her…

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Board of Water Supply and Sewerage. Visit to the Botany Sewage Farm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 4

Yesterday the members of the Board of Water Supply and Sewerage paid a visit of inspection to the sewage farm managed by them at Botany, The whole of the board, together with the engineer (Mr. Smail) and other officers…

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The Botany Sewage Farm

The Australian Star · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 3

Yesterday morning the members of the Water and Sewerage Board, accompanied by Mr. Small, the engineer, visited the Botany Sewage Farm. Heavy rain fell, but still an…

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A Farmer From South Africa

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 8

Percy Felton Dyke (34), a farmer from South Africa, was charged at the Water Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Smithers, S.M., with having pawned a locket, the property of Herbert Swanston Newton, his…

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A Dairy Conference

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Wednesday.--The Butter and Cheese Factories Managers' Association continued their conference to-day. It was unanimously decided to request the Minister for Agriculture to…

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Law Report. Wednesday, May 16. Banco Court. (Before the Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Owen and Mr. Justice Cohon.) a Contract for the Sale of Sheep. Reilly and another v. Finlay (part heard)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 May 1900 · page 3

Mr. Pilcher, Q.C. and Mr. C. B. Stephen, instructed by Messrs. Allen, Allen, and Hemsley, appeared for the defendant and moved to make absolute a rule nisi to set aside the verdict for plaintiff,…

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Sheep and Wool

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 5

Mr. George Jeffries, the wool expert bo the Technical Museum, etc., at Adelaide, whose name has come prominently before the public of these…

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Butter Exports

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 5

At the annual conference, held in Melbourne on Tuesday, of the Butter and Cheese Factories Managers' Association the president in his address dealt with the large increase in butter…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Wednesday.—With regard to prize-taking cattle being removed from the various agricultural shows on the first day of the exhibition, the Minister for Agriculture has…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 14

[Secretaries of Agricultural Societies are requested to forward to the Editor particulars of all future shown, and to notify any alteration in the dates given below. Much…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 3

Stock movements to date are:—12 horses, Wellington to Wodonga, Gascoygne; 24 horses, Tumut to Wodonga, Percival; 3230 ewes, Albury to Earou, Victoria, A. T. Doyle; 5 horses, Albury to…

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Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 7

Business in the local market has again been confined to a few small transactions in scoureds by private contract, but ere long we anticipate more disposition will by shown to secure…

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Disease in Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 8

Mr. J. C. White, of Coodobolin writes: -- "The peculiar disease in sheep described in, your Friday's issue is not by any means a new one, as during the years from 1890 to 1868, at Lake…

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Stud Sheep Sales

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 12

As announced in our last issue, the annual stud sheep stiles will be held during the first week in July. The sales will commence on Monday, July 2nd…

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American Wheat

Evening News · Friday 18 May 1900 · page 4

LONDON, May 17.—The "visible" supply of American wheat, according to "Bradstreet's," amounts to 63,602,000 bushels, as compared with 67,268,000 bushels last week…

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