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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1901

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Furracabad Farms

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 12

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

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Bena and Wamboyne

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 5

A well-attended meeting of the above association was held on the 9th instant, Mr. J. Porter in the chair. Mr. S. Wilson, jun., of Lake Cowal, attended…

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Model Farm

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 22 March 1901 · page 4

Goodge, in the Orange " Leader," nays that "there are so many artists in Bathurst that a demand is raised for a model farm."…

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Pastoral Address

The Methodist · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 1

BELOVED,—We joyfully embrace this opportunity of giving an affectionate salutation, and of offering, in the name of our Lord, words of counsel and encouragement,—…

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Pastoral Intelligence. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 9

The following are the stock movements reported:— 700 wethers, Yerong Creek to Melbourne; 500 wethers. Mundamaddara to Sydney; 12 horses, Albury to Wodonga…

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The Farmer. the Autumn Wheat Season

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 703

Ploughing in the wheat districts is not so far forward as it should be at this season of the year. While on a recent trip I was surprised to find that in some parts where early sewing is very necessary…

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Estimated Wheat Yield

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 10

Mr. J. J. Fenton, Assistant Government Statist, has issued his first estimate of the wheat crop of Victoria for the season 1900-1901. The total area sown for grain was 2.011,429 acres, giving a…

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Wool v. Mutton

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 702

We have reached a stage in the production of wool and mutton where the two have come very close together in importance in sheep-husbandry. This is on account of the gradual increase during…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 6

LONDON, March 21, 7.5 p.m.—At the wool sales this evening there was good competition, at full prices…

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The Wool Industry

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 10

The wool receipts at Newcastle for direct shipment to London during the week ended this afternoon amounted to 168 bales, making a total of 57,772 bales received since the commencement of the present season, as compared with…

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Experiments in Wheat Cultivation

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 10

WAGGA, Friday.--The State Minister for Mines and Agriculture spent yesterday inspecting and inquiring into the arrangements at the experimental farm, and as the outcome, some vast…

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Notes in the Southern Wheat Districts. Ie. the Wheat Block

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 702

" "When we have good crops the price is no good and wheat don't pay to grow. And wben we have bad crops the price is good, but it don't pay to grow a bad crop, anyhow." This is a. bummary of the wheat-growing: industry de­livered by a 6hare6-farmer while the train crept over the plains between Narrandera and Jerilderie. Sabje.:t to some discounts the estimate gauges the state of affairs which has prevailed in the pouthern districts for…

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The Grazier. Sale of Tocal Stud Cattle

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 702

Mr. Frank Reynolds, of Tocal, thus writes on the result of the dispersal sale of the Hereford and Devon studs:—"You will be glad to hear that the sale was a great success. Mr. Badgery was in great…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 14

Auctions were held on three days this week, the smallness of the offerings, 9251 bales, enabling public business to be comfortably transacted in the reduced period. Although some of the…

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Victoria. the Wheat Harvest. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 9

The preliminary official statistics of the Victorian wheat ha[?]vest show that the area sown for grain was 2,011,428 acres, against 2,165,693 acres for the previous year, and the yield was 17,790,576 bushels,…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 9
Also in The Australian Star

At the wool sales to-day competition was good and full prices were obtained. March 22. The following prices were obtained at the…

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How American Wheat is Sent to England

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 28

The methods employed for handling large quantities of material have been brought, to great perfection in the United States. Take for example, the handling of grain. Over…

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The Commonwealth Sheep Show. to the Editor of the "Sydney Mail."

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 704

Sir,—Your contributor "Lana" states in regard to the above "that whilst the Royal Agricultural Society has put forth all its best machinery in motion to make the first show of the society under the…

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At the Sheaf of Wheat. a Tale of the Rising of 1803. [All Rights Reserved.] Chapter Lv

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 March 1901 · page 4

The morning of the first of December broke with a cold mist enveloping the plain. The bivouac fires had died out; and Ronayne rose just as the trumpets from one division to…

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