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Farming & the land, 1902

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Sydney Wool & Stock Journal. A Bi-Weekly Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades. Published Every Tuesday and Friday. Half-yearly Review of the Wool Trade

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 4

During the first half of the wool year which terminated on the 31st December the market was subjected to none of those spasmodic changes that are…

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Moisture in Wool. (From a Special English Correspondent.) London, Nov. 22

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 3 January 1902 · page 7

Every man conversant at all with sheep and wool knows that the product of the sheep is capable of holding and retaining a large quantity of moisture, a fact more…

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Pastoral Estate Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 13

Messrs. Gair, Sloane, and Co., 29 Bligh-street, Sydney, report having sold on account of the trustees of the late Hon. G. King, the Gowrie estate, near Toowoomba, Darling Downs, Queensland, containing 44,700 acres, to the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 18
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BOURKE, December 24.—An Influential meeting of Crown lessees, and other residents was held to consider the personnel of the board of commissioners who Will administer the Western Lands…

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Ophthalmia in Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 30

Professor R. A. Craig, assistant State veterinarian at the Perdue University Agricultural Experiment Station, in a bulletin on "Infectious Ophthalmia in Cattle," says:—…

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Army Black Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 55

There were 1901 men discharged from the army for bad conduct in 1900, as against 1956 in 1899, says the Inspector-General of Military Prisons in his report just issued, who makes…

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Wool Loading

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 10

Messrs. Dangar, Gedye, and Co. are loading the steamer Afton. She is to get away from Sydney on 10th instant with about 4000 bales wool, large lines of tallow, sheep-skins, timber, and ore. This st[?]mer has already loaded…

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Shipments of Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 8

Vessels cleared at the Customs yesterday with 56,670 bags aud 400 tons of wheat for Falmouth and London. The shipments included two whole cargoes by the four-masted barque Jeannette…

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Sydney Wool Statistics

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 19

The wool exports from Sydney, January 1 to December 21, reached a total value of £6,732,009, as against £5,393,434. The arrivals of wool at Sydney and Newcastle for…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 10

The wool receipts at Newcastle during the week ended this afternoon amounted to 1380 bales, making a total of 43,161 bales receded since the opening of the present season, as compared with 50,996 bales at the corresponding…

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The Butter Season of 1901

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 27

The present Victoria butter season is regarded, as certain to be bad, as compared with that of last year, the estimated exportable surplus being about 7000 or 8000 tons, instead of 12,000 tons, as…

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Agricultural Pastoral Re-stocking the Western Country

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 8

The Western Lands Act of 1901, dealing with the lands in the Western Division of this State, has now become law. The greatest concession in the Act is the clause giving a 42 years' lease to…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 19

Owing to the Christmas vacation, which extends from December 18 to January 6, there ar no auction sales to report; but former Quotations are fully maintained by a considerable number of private sales…

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Diseases of Sheep. London, January 3

The Australian Star · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 6

Mr. R. W. Hanbury, the President of the Board of Agriculture, has appointed a departmental committee of inquiry into the diseases of sheep, known as louping ill and…

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Diseases of Sheep. London, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 9

Mr. R. W. Hanbury, the President of the Board of Agriculture, has appointed a departmental committee of inquiry into the diseases of sheep known as louping ill and blaxy…

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General Cable News. Diseases in Sheep

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 9

LONDON, Friday. -- Mr. R. W. Hanbury, President of the Board of Agriculture, has appointed a departmental committee to inquire into diseases in sheep known as louping-ill and…

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Country News. Agricultural and Pastoral. Broken Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 14

The revenue at the lands office in last year was £1247, as compared with £1292 for the previous year. COOMA, Friday…

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Pasteurising Milk and Cream for Butter Making

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 30

Professor H. H. Dean, in the twenty-fifth annual report of the Ontario Agricultural College, thus deals with the results of two experiments he conducted in this matter:—Two series of…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1902 · page 10

Although the extent of business which has been transacted privately since auction sales were discontinued for the holiday recess has not so far been disclosed, it is known that important…

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