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Farming & the land, 1903

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Farms for British Settlers. London, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 27 January 1903 · page 5

Mr. Chamberlain, in the course of his speech at Potchefstroom, implied that the farms which would be allotted to permanent British settlers would be 40 acres each…

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Conference of Dairymen

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 January 1903 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture proposes shortly to call a conference of dairymen to consider a number of matters connected with the buttermaking and kindred industries. Among the…

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A Farmer Killed

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 27 January 1903 · page 5

A man named George Oshorn was killed on Friday at a spot between Wooloundra and Doodlekine. Osborn left Doodlckine after dinner for his farm, eight miles off. He had two horses…

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Agricultural and Pastoral

Evening News · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 3

ARMIDALE, Tuesday.—Thirteen points of rain fell last week, which makes 23 points in all for this month so far. The continuous hot weather and high winds have had a bad effect upon the…

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Pastoral Products City Yards

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 11

PIGS.--There were 559 forward, made up of a number of nil descriptions. The demand was good, and values better than those ruling Inst week, except for stores, which were not so dear. Prime heavy backfatters made…

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Butter to Africa

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 27

The Victorian butter trade with South Africa is increasing very rapidly. In the season 1900-[?] the export to that country during January was 57 tons; in the following year it was 283 tons;…

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State Butter Show

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 27

Mr. Kidd, Minister for Agriculture, has received the report of the final judging in the above competition. Barrengarry Dairy Company is first, with a total of 174 points out of 200; New…

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Seed Wheat

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 19

Preparations are being made by the Government in relation to the distribution of seed wheat, and the following application form has been drafted:—…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. Corowa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 7

At a recent, meeting held at Daysdale, the question of throwing open travelling stock reserves between Daysdale and Corowa was discussed, and a resolution was adopted that the travelling stock route and…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 4

The local wool sales were resumed yesterday, when the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd. and Goldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd. offered…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 18

Last week was another busy one in the wool trade, 24,000 bales being sold, and this one will also be busy, and probably result in 20,000 bales being put through, far more wool having turned up for local sales in…

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New Food for Horses and Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 30

New food for live stock in Germany is the subject of a report issued by the State Department, and based upon a report by United States Vice-Consul Benjamin F. Liefeld at Freiberg…

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Wool Sales. London, Jan. 26

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 7

At the wool sales to-day competition was keen. Pricos for crossbreds showed a hardening tendency, and merinos were occasionally in buyers favour…

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Wool Prices Firm. London

The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 4

At the wool sales to-day competition continued to be spirited, and prices remained [?]…

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Wheat on the Briny. London

The Australian Star · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 4

The amount of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is 2,115,000 quarters, and for the Continent 780,000 quarters…

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Country News. Mysterious Mortality Among Sheep. Wellington

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 7

A mob of 3000 sheep, travelling from Hargraves to Belaringar, and trucking at Wellington, arrived four miles out of town at midday, and camped in a paddock, the property of Dr. Barker, at Apsley Hill…

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Seed Wheat. the Relative Value of Different Samples

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 28

In the January number of the "N. S. W. Agricultural Gazette," Dr. N. A. Cobb, publishes the first part of a report on a series of investigations extending over sevenal years, with the object…

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Grading Seed Wheat. N. A. COBB, in the "Gazette."

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 222

To Judge the Tabulated Gradings.—All the grains of the lower grades in any sample will lower its quality as seed wheat, the very lowest grades of course being a greater delect than those…

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Breachley. Black Sheep Published by Arrangement with T. Kisher Unwin Chapter Xx.-on the Sandhills

Referee · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 9

Morgan and myself took up our quarters with old Barrow, and before proceeding to amuse ourselves continuously for a week or two, we set to work and put the old sailor's…

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The Dairying Conference

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 28 January 1903 · page 6

The Minister for Mines and Agriculture has it in view to convene shortly a conference of persons interested in the dairying industry to consider matters affecting that important…

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