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Farming & the land, 1902

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Wool and Leather Workers' Association

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 7

At the annual meeting of the Wool and Leather Workers' Association of New South Wales, held at Botany, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:--President,…

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Wheat Supply. London, February 19, 7.10 p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 6

The visible supply of wheat in America is 86,594,000 bushels, as compared with 87,177,000 bushels a week ago…

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Early Maturity of Sheep. (From an English Correspondent) London, Dec. 30

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 11

Time, conditions, and the demands of the market have so materially changed within the past few years that this question of early maturity has become not…

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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. the Wool Trade. Sydney, Thursday, February 20

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 4

No public sales have been held during the week, and transactions have boon confined principally to those clips that failed to find purchasers at provious…

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Annual Wool Report for 1901. a Review of the Year

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 5

Messrs. Helmuth, Schwartze and Co. wool brokers, of London, have forwarded their usual interesting report of the wool trade of the world. The report is…

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Sydney Wool Trade. the Australasian Mortgage & Agency Company, Ltd., report:—

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 2

The past week has been practically the first, of the off season, no sales having been held in either this or the Melbourne market, but sufficient wool has…

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Good Dairy Cows Are Valuable

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 21 February 1902 · page 12

Never in our life have we met a farmer who was the owner of a good cow but that the owner was loud in praise of the animal and proud that he was her…

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Dairy. Cattle on the Bathurst State Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 458

When writing some articles on the dairying industry in the Bathurst district recently I omitted to include some notes on the dairy cattle at the Bathurst Experimental Farm. Mr. Peacock, the manager, is…

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Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 8

The butter market continues firm. Choicest colonial is quoted at from 110s to 112s per cwt., showing no alteration on the week. New Zealand butter occasionally commands 114s. High…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 3

LIVERPOOL, Thursday.—At a meeting of the Liverpool Agricultural, Horticultural, and Industrial Society, the secretary reporter that a special subsidy of £50 had been banked to the society's…

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Cattle Importations

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 456

It is to be regretted that a country like Australia, the ideal home of three of the principal classes of domestic animals—horses, cattle, and sheep—should, as regards the former two, be still…

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Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 8

The Bradford market is steady, and tops are firm. Tops, common 60's, are quoted at 19¼d per lb., and super at 20¼d. Prices show no change on the week…

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Redwater in Cattle

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 35

The Chief Inspector of Stock has received a progress report from the Government Veterinary Surgeon (Mr. J. D. Stewart, M.R.C.V.S.) in connection with the disease…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 14

The first meeting of the new committee of the Pastoral and Agricultural Society was held to-day. Mr. G. A. Thompson was elected president. Mr. Walter J. Johnson secretary (vice Mr. G. E. M'Kay…

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Red Water in Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 30

The Government Veterinary Surgeon (Mr. J. D. Stewart, M.R.C.V.S.) has forwarded a progress report to the Chief Inspector of Stock in connection with the disease known as "Red Water in…

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Smut in Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 28

Smuts in all farm crops are caused by parasitic plants. The life cycles of these smuts (writes Mr. R. Winterberger, of the Illinois Agricultural Department) consists of two stages,…

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The Wheat Markets

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 8

The wheat markets are quiet, but steady. Cargoes continue dull. Victorian January shipment and South Australia January-February shipment are quoted at 30s per quarter. The Montroia's…

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The Sheep of Ihe World

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 30

The volume of "Agricultural Returns" issued annually by the British Board of Agriculture, after dealing with every detail connected with the live stock and other farrming industries of the…

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The Victorian Wheat Yield

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 11

By way of increasing the annual output of wheat experimental plots have (says our Melbourne correspondent) been cultivated, and various artificial manures employed. It…

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A Grain of Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 22 February 1902 · page 27

We have received from Mr. F. B. Guthrie, chemist to the New South Wales Agricultural Department, a pamphlet entitled "The History of a Grain of Wheat." The subject is treated…

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