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Farming & the land, 1901

5,239 stories in Sydney's papers · page 56 of 250

Section G—farm Produce Judges: Messrs George Welts and W K Gibbons

Nepean Times · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 3

Collection of farm, garden (including flowers), orchard and dairy produce, arranged in trophy form. L'Williams 1 Wheat, one bushell, grown in police district of…

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Farming and Freetrade

Evening News · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 4

It is very curious how Mr. O'Sullivan and other protectionists will keep insisting, despite the plain logic of facts, that the farming industry in New South Wales is being ruined by freetrade. It…

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Dairy News. Moruya

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 13

The local chease factory to-day paid 3½d per standard gallon for 43,200 gallons milk supplied during the month of January…

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The Farmer. Sugarcane Grown Near Sydney

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 638

Some time back Mr. W. M'Mann, of Leichhardt, showed us some sugar cane which he had raised at Leichbardt with a view to testing the question whether cane could be profitably grown on the…

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Dairy. an Inspection Act

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 638

What is termed a "Milk and Dairy Inspection Act" has been passed in New Zealand All milk and daily premises have to be registered with the local councils and proper impection made So milk…

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Weather, Pastures, and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 641

If it were not that the monsoonal rains that came across from the Northern Territory and the Northern Coast of Queensland were so capricious in their distribution we might chronicle a break…

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Feeding Dairy Cows

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 16 March 1901 · page 30

The question of feeding dairy stock in such a way that farmers can realise the greatest possible benefit from the food consumed and animals employed is one of vital importance in these times,…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Molong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 8

Fifty-two high-class stud rams from the Hon. R. H. Roberts's Tiverton Station have been untrucked and forwarded to Mr. H. C. M'Culloch's Buckinbah Station…

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Wheat Cargoes

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 4

LONDON, Saturday.--The cargo of wheat by the Ocean has been sold at 20s 3d per quarter…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 7

At the wool sales to-day there was strong competition, Prices showed a hardening tendency. March 16…

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London Wool Market. (By Our Correspondent.) London, Feb. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 9

The attendance at the Wool Exchange keeps u[?] small country buyers being present to obtain some supplier before the close of the auction. Competition is fairly general, but there is an impression thatd…

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Dairy News. Coraki

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 9

Mr. Blackman, of the company's Port Macquarie creamery, has arrived and has taken over the management of the Ausralian Dairy Company's local creamery…

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Desirable Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 March 1901 · page 7

The Furracabad farms are being advertised for sale by the Haymarket Permanent Land. Building and Investment Company, Limited. The terms are exceptionally moderate, and make it possible…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 8

BALLINA, Saturday.-At the annual meeting of the Ballina Poultry and Horticultural Society, the annual report showed a loss of over £16 during the year. The annual show was fixed for July…

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Wheat

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 2

March 15.—The wheat markets are quiet, though generally steady. Cargoes rule firm, Victorian for February-March shipment being quoted at 29s 9d, and sailer parcels 28s 6d per…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 6

Stock passing are:—4000 wethers, Murrungundy to Brewongle, Taylor Brothers, 3000 wethers, Tonderb[?]e to Marr[?]ngundy, J. M[?]resperger, 3000 ewes, Narrorray to Wellington, Fugan; 115…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 3

[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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Butter for Export

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 2

The Nineveh, which sailed for London, via ports, on Friday, took the following shipments of New South Wales butter:—Foley Brothers, Limited. 462 boxes; H. Prescott and Co., 100…

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Taints in Butter

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 7

Too often taints are the cause of low quality in butter and cheese. If a factory has in its vicinity open ditches and containing stagnant water, the breezes and the flies will bring into…

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Sheep From Victoria

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Tuesday 19 March 1901 · page 2

A notification appears in the Government Gazette to the effect that as "scab in sheep" is not known to exist in the State of Victoria, his Excellency the Lieutenant-Governor of this the provisions of certain sections of the Disease in Sheep Act, so as to admit of sheep being introduced from Victorian upon their owner giving the inspector for the district in…

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