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Farming & the land, 1904

5,951 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Pedigree Cattle. a Consignment From Mr. Brookman. LONDON

The Australian Star · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 6

Mr. George Brookman, M.L.C., of Adelaide, who has been in London some time, has sent a number of pedigree horses, sheep, and cattle to Adelaide…

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The Antwerp Wool Sales. London, Jan. 13

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 7

The first series of wool sales for the year at Antwerp opened yesterday. There were numerous buyers, and competition was greatly animated. Fine wools were fully…

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Fishiness in Butter. How the Export Trade Is Affected. Necessity for Precautionary Measures

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 7

The Minister for Agriculture has received a cable from Mr. Lance, Commercial Agent in London, wherein be draws attention to the fact that while some brands of New South Wales…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Western Division Rentals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 5

The knottiest question which the Western Land Commissioners have to decide relates to the improvement in large areas of the Western territory brought about by the…

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The Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1904 · page 5

MOSS VALE.—Harvesting operations are greatly retarded through the unsettled state of the weather. TEMORA.—The season over 50,000 bags of…

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SHEEP and Wool the Wool Trade

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 5

The Sydney wool market during the week was again marred by one of those unpleasant instances, that, the market generally would be much bettor…

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Pastoral Products

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 9

The quantity of wool manifested to arrive at Sydney yesterday was as follows:--By rail, 980 bales; coastwise, 89 bales…

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Blindness in Sheep

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 5

The war many flocks suffer a great cleat with blindness, which cause the owners much worry and anxiety. A correspondent wrote to me the other…

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Buying Sheep Early

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 5

A correspondent recently wrote to us, saying that he had been at Cootamundra. Gundagai, Junee, and Goulburn, and was unable to buy any sheep,…

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Sheep-guessing Competition

Evening News · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 3

KATOOMBA, Thursday.— In connection with St. Hilda's sale of work, which concluded on Saturday night last, the sheep-guessing competition resulted in the weight of George James' sheep…

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Wheat Ships

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

The splendid grain season continues to attract an unusually large number of ships to Sydney. Two French barques, the Ville du Havre and La Banehe, arrived on Wednesday under charter…

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The Wheat Standard

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

A meeting of the grain trade section of the Chamber of Commerce was held yesterday, to fix the f.a.q. (fair average quality) standard for wheat in this State. It was found, however,…

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Oversea Wheat Supplies

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 3

The quantity of wheat and [?]affcat for the United Kingdom is edi mated at 1,810.000 quarters. been 130.000 quarters more than a week age…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 9
Also in The Australian Star

Dalgety and Company, Limited, are in receipt of the following cable from their London house, dated 14th inst;:--"As compared with the average rates of the last Antwerp sales prices at the…

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The Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 5

There was a large attendance of buyers at to-day's wool sales, and prices were firm at the advance recently established…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--The Antwerp wool sales closed yesterday, and prices were unchanged from the opening. The total of River Plate wools offered were 4522 bales, of which 3237 bales…

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The Milking Shorthorn Cattle Association

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 6

The Milking Shorthorn Cattle Association of New South Wales recently on med for the encouragement of the breeding of the favourite milking…

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The Price of Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture says he has read with much interest the article in "The Daily Telegraph" on the price of wheat and the important question propounded whether farmers…

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Cattle in America. the First Importations

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 15 January 1904 · page 5

The first historical mention we have of the importation of cattle is that they were brought by the Europeans to Mexico about the year 1525. says…

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