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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1902

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 6

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company, limited, have received the following cable from their London house with reference to the series of wool sales just closed In London:—"Public sales closed at…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union. Conference of Delegates

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 7

The first annual conference in connection with the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union of New South Wales was commenced at Aaron's Exchange Hotel last night, and was…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union. Annual Conference of Delegates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 10

The annual conference of delegates from the pastoral and agricultural societies of New South Wales affiliated with the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union was held last evening at A[?]rons'…

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Australian Produce in Britain. the Butter Market. Improved Prices. London, Feb. 28

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 3

In a day or two the Oroya will arrive in London with the last shipment of butter for the season 19011902. No season since the trade began has been so unsatisfactory as regards the quantity anticipated…

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Not Used to Gas. a Farmer Suffocated. Another Nearly So

Evening News · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 3

Two farmers who came to Sydney from the Paterson River to see the Easter show had their trip marred by a most unfortunate experience, which resulted (as reported in our first edition…

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Bee Farmers' Association. Question of Developing the Export Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 April 1902 · page 3

The annual meeting of the New South Wales Bee Farmers' Association was held on Monday afternoon at the rooms of the Farmers' Co-operative Company, Sussex-street. Mr. Hessell-Hall, M.A.,…

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Sheep and Wool. the Wool Trade

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 5

The quantity of wool on the Sydney market has grown very small since the last auctions, and the turnover has, therefore, been limited. The demand…

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Cattle

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

1,300 fat cattle were yarded, comprising 240 from New South Wales, 500 from the northeastern district, 130 from Gippsland, 270 from South Gippsland, and 120 chiefly from the…

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Cattle

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Stock and Station Journal

470 yarded, all being good to prime medium weighta. 100 came from Queensland, 60 from Victoria, 40 from New South Wales, 190 from the north of this State, and 80 from the…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 2

KIAMA, Wednesday.—A meeting of dairy farmers was held on Monday, the business being to consider an offer from the Farmers' Co-operative Company to pay a halfpenny per lb above the…

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The Pastoral Outlook

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 6

BEFORE the recent rains fell, the drought-stricken area was extending more rapidly than we ever knew it, and parts that were almost looked upon in…

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Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 5

The Easter holidays have interrupted business thia week, and in consequence the actual dealings in wool have notbeen important. The demand for most descriptions is…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 6

The holding of the Royal Agricultural Show, which has been so gratifyingly successful this year, proved a fitting occasion for the annual gathering of delegates of societies affiliated…

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Southdown Wool

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 5

Southdown mutton, solely on account of quality, has become a household word in every part of the world where mutton-eating has been developed to…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Castle Hill

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 11

The Castle Hill district has never suffered so much from drought as at present. The trees in the bush are dying, and the creeks have dried up; the pasturage has disappeared, and the hav husbanded in the spring…

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London Wool Report

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 5

Messrs. Buxton, Ronald and Co., under date London, February 25, report:— "The general features of the wool…

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Royal Champion Butter Fat Test

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 7

Butter Test for Milch Cow, any breed. To be won three times by the same exhibitor, but not necessarily to be in succession, or by the same exhibit, before being won. Prize of £100,…

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Wool Conditions Continue Sound

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 5

If we take a casual and a surface view of conditions which are uppermost in the Bradford market, then all one can say is that things are marking time; but if…

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The Armidale Show. This Sheep Section

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 April 1902 · page 5

In speaking of the sheep section at the late Armidale Show, the local "Chronicle" said:— "Notwithstanding that one or two…

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