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Farming & the land, 1904

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Victorian Wheat Shipments

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday.--A cargo of 13,000 quarters of Victorian wheat, March shipment, has been placed at 29s per quarter…

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Wheat Stacks Burned

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 9

Six stacks of wheat, the property of Mr. F. Connell, of Canning Downs, near Warwick, were destroyed by fire this morning. They were insured in the Sun Office for £180, but…

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The Wheat Harvest

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 12

The Wharf Labourers' Union will hold its annual picnic on Februry 10, on which date all members will "down tools," this hoing a rule of the organisation The N.S.W. Railway…

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Pastoral Map of N.S.W.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 266

Mr. H. E. C. Robinson, map publisher, lithographer, and draftsman, of Wentworth-court, 64 Elizabeth-street, Sydney, has sent us a copy of his new pastoral map of Now South Wales…

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London Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 2

The Co-operative Wool and Produce Co, report having received the following cable from their London representatives, dated the 1st last.:--"Sales closed With good demand, and…

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London Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 3
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal, Evening News

At the London wool sales, the first series of which for the year, closed on Monday, with the market extremely strong for all descriptions, there were catalogued 134,000 bales, of…

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Protection and Wool

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 4
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The foreign-traders, are trying to stir up a little trouble amongst the rational and national policy people by telling something which is not the truth about wool. Their…

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Wheat Afloat. London

The Australian Star · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 4

The quantity of wheat afloat is estimated at 2,360,000 quarters for the United Kingdom, and at 915,000 quarters for the Continent. The Atlantic shipments are 140,000…

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Berry Show Milk and Butter contests

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 11

The results of the mille and butter tests in connectlon will the Berry Show, which opens today (Wednesday), are as under:— CHAMPION MILK TEST…

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WOOL. Weekly Review

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 16

The feature of last week was a marked falling off in the supplies, and a mixed and irregular selection of wool in the catalogues, a third of many of which are now made up of twice-offered lots, and afford…

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Selection and Breeding of Beef Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 27

Professor G. E. Day, of the Guelph Agricultural College, Ontario, Canada, speaking on the above subject before a stock-breeders' association, said: In the breeding of beef cattle, the…

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Draft Allowance on Wool

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 16

The movement originated by the Sydney Wool-selling Brokers, having for its object the abolition of the draft allowance on wool, is one which will commend itself heartily to…

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Board of Works as Cattle Dealers

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 266

Our Melbourne correspondent writes that the fattening of cattle at the Metropolitan Board of Works farm, is proving highly remunerative. On the recommendation of the…

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The N.H.W. Wheat Standard

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 11

On Thursday the grain trade section of the Sydney Chamber of Cummerce fixed the f.a.q. (fair average quality) standard of Now South Wales wheat at 611b per imperial bushel, with certain…

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Victorian Rural Notes. Why We Have "Fishy" Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 24

From time to time talk ls hoard in Melbourne about alleged fishiness of butter arriving in London. That the quality of some of the butter made and exported from Victoria is faulty must…

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London Wool Market. an Improved Tone

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 10

LONDON, January 1.--The new year has opened at any rate with a fairly good tone in the law wool markets, although it would be the height of folly to ignore the existence of the…

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In the Wheat Belt. Big Fields and Yields in Riverina. "Fifty-two Bushels to the Acre." Heavy Storing at Berrigan and Finley. Unstocked Pastoral Country Vii

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 3 February 1904 · page 7

BERRIGAN, Monday.--Irrigation is spelt with an abnormal "I" in Narrandera. Any other word the meaning of which, apart from being a natural remedy, represented the…

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