Our Australian Ancestors. The Advent of John Macarthur The Centenary of Wool
Truth · Sunday 17 January 1904 · page 3
In this year of our Lord 1904, w celebrate the centenary of our greatest product—wool. There are two claimants for the honor of having been the first to…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Tea Table Topics. Letters to "Vivienne." How to Make Money Without Leaving the Home. Farming
Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1904 · page 6
To earn money at home without previous teaching in some branch of art is almost impossible. A few boarders or some sewing or to shift from a cottage into a place…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Farm Liar This Time
Sunday Times · Sunday 17 January 1904 · page 4
"Yes," resumed the Queensland farmer, as the crowd of agriculturists seated themselves round a little table; "yes, we do things on rather a sizable scale. I've seen…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Shipment of Butter
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 4
The Director of Agriculture states that a record week's shipment of butter has been made to South Africa. The Miltiades took 2597 boxes, and the Wakool 3984 boxes, making…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →London Butter Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 3
The Minister for Agriculture has arranged with the commercial agent in London for a weekly report of the London butter market to be cabled during the export season. On…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter for England
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 4
On Saturday the White Star liner Persic, which sailed for Liverpool and London, via Capetown and ports, took 8037 boxes of butter for England. The shippers were:--For London:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat Cargoes
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 4
LONDON, Saturday.--Sixteon thousand quarters of Victorian wheat, January shipment, have been sold at about 29s 9d per quarter; and 14,000 at 29s 10[?] with the option to ship up…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The London Butter Market
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 4
Arrangements have been made by the Minister for Agriculture with the Commercial Agent in London for a weekly report of the London butter market to be cabled during our export season…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Seed Wheat Payments
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 3
According to a statement made by the Minister for Agriculture, a fair amount of money is coming into the department in payment for the seed wheat supplied by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Further Wheat Shipments
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 4
On Saturday and yesterday the record of wheat exports from the State this season was augmented by no fewer than 38,813 bags, The steamer Tangier, which sailed on Saturday for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land. Farm and Station. the Wheat Harvest
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 3
The incoming of the latest of the wheat crop is being watched with very keen interest by farmers. There is an impression abroad that the actual total yield disclosed by the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Packing Sheep in a Cart
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 3
A case of interest to those engaged in travelling sheep was heard at the Ashfield Court on Thursday last, when Subinspector Broderick proceeded against a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Butter Industry. Expansion on the Richmond River [By Telegraph.] LISMORE
The Australian Star · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 6
A meeting of shareholders of the Byron Bay Co-operative Butter Co. was held yesterday, when the proposal to form a co-operative shipping company in connection with the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →European News. English Commercial. Meat, Wheat and Metals. [By Cable.]
The Australian Star · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 3
Weddell's annual report states that of the total consumption of meat in the United Kingdom 62½ percent, was home grown, 25½ per cent, being foreign and 12 per cent,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Loves of Miss Anne. Iii.--scruples of Conscience and Pounds of Butter
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 3
Three whole days I held out. That is a lifetime for anyone to resist Miss Anne. For myself I believe that if she had told Alain Gairlies the whole plot prepared against his peace…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →To-day's Commercial. Best Wheat Dearer. Weight of Inferior Grain. High-priced Potatoes
Evening News · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 5
Choice milling wheat has further advanced, sales being reported from N.S.W. country districts at 2s 9d and 2s 9¼d per bushel. Adding a half penny for buying charges, the Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Japan Buying Supplies. Orders Placed in America. Half a Million Bushels of Wheat
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 5
LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--The sum of 3,000,000 dollars in Japanese gold has arrived at San Francisco during the past fortnight for the payment of supplies and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Experiments with Wheat. Work of the Agricultural Department. Some Successful Results. Interesting Explanation by Mr. Campbell
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 5
When inspecting recently tile work curried on at Lambrig, near Queanbeyan, by Mr. W. Farrer, the Wheat Experimentalist of the Department of Agriculture, Mr. Kidd, Minister for…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Crops
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 3
COWRA.—Wheat harvesting is nearly completed. The yield will run from four to nine bags per acre. An average of 25 bushels to the acre would have been recorded, but the losses…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Farmers' League to Fight Socialism
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 18 January 1904 · page 8
Now that the election is over. Victorian farmers have become awakened to the menace of the Labour party, and to the value of organisation. A comparison of the Senate totals…
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