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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 10

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

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Pastoral Intelligence. Gundagai

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 6

Stock movements include 200 cuttle, Goulburn to Oberne, C. D. Bardwell owner. GLEN INNES, Thursday. The following are the stock passings to day:—1700…

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South Coast Cattle

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 9

The Berry Agricultural Society has written to the secretary of the Wollongong Agricultural Society asking that in view of a special train of distinguished guests passing through…

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Vermont Bred Sheep. to Te Editor of the Sydney Wool and Stock Journal

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 5

Sir,—I have read with interest the controversy between Mr. Horsfall and Mr. Shaw [?] Vermont sheep, and having been sheepbreeding in Riverina for a quarter of a century…

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The Wheat Market

Evening News · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 5

LONDON, January 3.-The cargo of New Zealand wheat ex ship Lady Isabella, from Lyttelton September 20, has been sold at 29s 3d per quarter…

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London Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 8

LONDON, November 30, 1900.--Although the amount of business doing here in wool is extremely limited, yet there is a volume of inquiry for small and large parcels of both merino and…

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A Cattle Branding Invention. a Successful Trial

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 5

The vast importance of the question of the branding of cattle, and the pressing necessity for a radical improvement on the obsolete fire brand so disastrous to the commercial value of…

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The Wool Slump. to Those Who Intend to Hold or Smarten Up Their Wool

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 7

In seasons like the present many do not consider it advisable to have their wool cut about at the low figures now ruling (in many instances not the half the prices of last season…

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American Wheat Supply. January 3.1.45,p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 5

The American visible supply of wheat and [?]our east of the Rockies is estimated by "Bradstreets" at 87,911 bushels…

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Station Properties. Furracabad Farms

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 11

The HAYMARKET PERMANENT LAND, BUILDING' and INVESTMENT COMPANY offer investors good farming land in their subdivision of the Furracabad estate, in convenient areas on…

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Farming Property

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 11

Mr. E. W. CORNELL, Trangie, offers for private sale a farming property of 640 acres, within 1¾ miles of Trangie. It is subdivided into three paddocks, and there are the usual…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. the State Elections

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 7

The executive council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association met in the Queen Victoria Markets yeserday afternoon for the purpose of framing the farmers' fighting pl[?]form for the State elections…

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The Transvaal. Closing in on Invaders. Looting Farms. Retreat of De Wet. London, Jan. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 5

Large reinforcements have reached. Middelburg, Somerset West, and Beaufort West. The British cavalry is hemming in the…

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Farmer and Co

The Australian Star · Friday 4 January 1901 · page 3

N[?]t content with a very fine exterior display, particulars of which have already been given, Messrs. Farmer and Co. have converted the interior of their grea[?] establishment into a…

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Value of Australian Wool per Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 44

Reckoning by the figures of 1899, the value of wool exported from South Australia was 3s 10d for every head of sheep, New South Wales 3s 8d, Tasmania 3s 4d, Victoria 3s ld, Queensland 2s…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. Working Butter

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 9

Butter when properly made in the granular form needs no working other than that done in the churn. This saves more than half the labor and makes…

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Wheat Crop

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 43

In 1899 Australasia produced 41,412,000 bushels of wheat. Of this total, Victoria contributed 19,581,000, New South Wales 9,276,000, South Australia 8,779,000, Tasmania 2,304,000, West…

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Inferior Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 11

The reports of "fishy" butter being offered in the English market has decided the Minister for Agriculture to introduce a bill next session, providing for a Government stamp being placed…

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The World's Wheat Crop

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 5

The immensity of the wheat business of the world can only be realised by a study of the requirements of the bread-eaters and the gigantic nature of the operations through which…

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Cattle Herds

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 5 January 1901 · page 43

At the beginning of 1899 Queensland possessed 6,571,292 head of cattle, New South Wales 2,029,516,…

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