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Farming & the land, 1902

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To Make Good Melted Butter Sauce

The World's News · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 20

Take one ounce of butter, one ounce of flour, and three-quarters of a pint of cold water. First melt the butter in a saucepan over the fire, and stir in the flour; work well till smooth with a…

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WOOL; Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 18

After a recess of eighteen days, auction sales were resumed yesterday in the local market by three brokers, who between them catalogued 7706 bales, and disposed of 6438 under the hammer. During the holiday…

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Wool Sales. Albury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 13

The third wool sale of the season was held to-day when two firms offered a catalogue totalling 200 bales. The offering were chiefly farmers' lots, and the wool was of totally medium quality. The attendance of buyers, which…

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Supply of Wheat in America

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 8

The "visible supply" of wheat in the United States is 94,900,000 bushels, as compared with 94,736,000 bushels a week ago, and with 83,456,000 bushels at this time last year…

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Wool-Classing 5000 Years Ago

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 77

Wool-classing, on a large mercantile scale, too, is no new thing, as the brokers and merchants of London, Sydney, and Melbourne, would perhaps readily admit; but among "things not generally known"…

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The Wool Trade. Friday Evening

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 7

The new year, so far as the wool industry is concerned, has opened very auspiciously in the local market. A very full attendance of buyers faced auctioneers on Monday, several…

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In Town and Out. Fewer People, More Cattle

The Catholic Press · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 27

Perhaps there is no land in the world more fertile than the land of Roscommon, one of the counties of "poor Ireland " and of "poor Connacht," both poor for no other…

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Trade with South Africa. a Successful Shipment of Cattle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 10

Information has been received that the large shipment of cattle recently sent to South Africa has been made with a loss of only 23 head, including several which died of pneumonia soon after the steamer…

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The Antwerp Wool Sales. London, Jan. 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 9

The Antwer[?] wool sales opened yesterday. 2115 bales c[?]a Plata wool were offered, and 1110 were sold. Prices were 5 centimes in advance of October states…

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The Australian Workers' Union. the Coming Conference. Sheep-shearers and Station-owners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 11

The conference of members of the Autralian Workers' Union, which is to be opened in Sydney on the 23rd instant, will be the most important gathering that has as yet been held in connection with this…

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Antwerp Wool Sales London, January 10, 2.15 a.m

The Australian Star · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 11

At the opening of the Antwerp wool sales yesterday 2115 bales of La Plata wool were offered, 1110 of which were sold at an advance of 5 centimes on the October prices…

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London Wool Sales. Opening of the Sixth Series. (From Our Special Correspondent.) London, November 29

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 19

The opening of the sixth series of London colonial wool sales on November 26 was an event which had been looked forward to with unusual interest for many weeks previous, and the results were awaited with…

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Liverpool Police Court. Tuesday, January 7th. (Bofore Mr. F. R. Wilshire, P.M., and Dr. Birch, J.p.) Cattle Straying

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 11

James Attwood and William Brown were each fined 2s 6d, and 4s lOd costs of Court, for allowing cattle to stray in the streets of Liverpool…

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Farm and Garden Seasonable Reminders for January

Nepean Times · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 7

Field.—It should be decided at once whether land that was under grain is to go to grass or be prepared for other crops. If the latter, or it is new land for cropping, then the sooner on it is broken up…

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The Furracabad Farms

The Catholic Press · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 14

In our advertising columns is a notice concerning the Furracabad Estate Farms in the New England district. These properties are situated close to the town of Glen Innis,…

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Big Gains in Farm and Farm Wealth

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 11

The number of farms in the U.S. has increased by more than a million during the past 10 years. This enormous gain, pointing to stimulated interest in agriculture, is due to…

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Parramatta District. the Fruit Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 10

The few showers that fell on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday last gave the district about half an inch of rain and stopped just when they were beginning to do good. Pasturage benefited by the…

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Poultry Farmers and Co-operation

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 11

A meeting of poultry farmers was held yesterday afternoon at Fitzgerald's Crystal Palace, George-street, for the purpose of considering what steps should be taken to establish a co-operative…

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The Farmer. the New German Tariff

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 73

In reviewing the German Tariff Bill the Berlin correspondent of the London "Times" has the following on agricultural in conflict with other interests :—" It is admitted that in the interests of…

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Dairy. Variations in Milk Tests

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 January 1902 · page 73

It is one of the peculiar anomalies in the yield of milk from a cow that it will sometimes vary to a large extent in the milk test. One of the most up-to-date American dairy experiment stations is the one…

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