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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1904

5,951 stories in Sydney's papers · page 34 of 250

In the Wheat Belt. Round About Corowa. Victorians in the Riverina. Growth of Sentiment and Settlement. Great Need of Closer Settlement. Viii

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 5

COROWA. Wednesday.--The Royal mail coach from Berrigan to Corowa is a one-horse gig. The driver of the mail impels his team across the beautiful pastoral and agricultural country…

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A Grain of Wheat. Its Structure and Properties. Results of Regent Investigations. Viewed From a Commercial Standpoint. a New Conception of Our Daily Food

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 6

From time to time much has been written of the many ways in which the officers of the New South Wales Department of Agriculture are endeavoring to improve our main cereal crop,…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. the Potato Boom in England. Hints to Australian Growers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 4

Tho boom in special varieties and high cultivation continues in several of the English counties. Reports of enormous yields of potatoes which realise startling prices are…

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Northern Rivers Districts. "The Garden of Australia." the Question of Railway Extension. the Dairying Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 4

Mr. Richard Teece. general manager of the A.M.P. Society, accompanied by Mr. Benjamin Short, one of the directors, and Senator Walker, made a tour of inspection last week of…

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Distribution of Agricultural Information. the State Department's Methods. Instruction and Advice for Farmers and Others

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 4 February 1904 · page 6

In discussing in these columns the means by which the agricultural and pastoral resources of New South Wales might be developed on stable lines, it was recently pointed…

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SHEEP and Wool. the Wool Trade

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 5

The Sydney market has continued to rule very firm for all descriptions, while some sorts have taken a rise. At present, so far as the Sydney centre is…

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Sheep

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 14

5,500 penned, chielfy of good trady quality, There was a quiet demand, but late extreme prices were casily obtainable. Graziers took 1,000 Quotations: Prime merino wethers, £1 to 23s:…

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Murrumbidgee Pastoral. Association

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 6

The annual meeting of members of the Munrumbidgce Pastoral Association was held last Tuesday night. Mr. E. Ingram was chairman. The report stated that…

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Sheep Drenching

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 5

We would like to call the attention of Sheepbreeders to the advertisement of John Pottie and Sons, of 201 Castle-reagh-street, Sydney. appearing in this…

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Wheat Cargoes

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--Eighteen thousand quarters of South Australian wheat, January shipment; 12,000 quarters, February-March shipment; and 14,000 quarters,…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the quarterly meeting of the council of the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union, it was agreed, on the motion of Mr. F. W. A. Downes, "That the secretary be instructed to…

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Pastoral Industry. Some Remarkable Figures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 3

In the course of an Interview which a "Herald" representative had yesterday afternoon with the Premier, and whilst he was speaking on the subject of the Government…

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Thursday, Feb. 4. Sheep

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 3

14,350 sheep and lambs punned, comprising all qualities, and including a large proportion of prime merino wethers, and a Sprinkling of crossbreds. The market…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 4

Goldshrough, Mort and Co.. Ltd.. have received the following cable from their London house, under date February 1:—…

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Wheat From the Country

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 5

At the request of the principal firms of grain exporters the Railway Department recently discontinued the consignment of grain from country stations to those firms. Vessels…

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BUTTER. Record Shipment by the Moldavia

The Australian Star · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 4

The P. and O. Moldavia, has secured the largest shipment of butter which has ever left Australia for London. She sails homeward tomorrow, and will…

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The London Wool Market

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 5

The special correspendent to the Sydney "Daily Telegraph." in writing on the wool trade from London on January 1st. said :—The new year has opened…

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English Commercial American Wheat Supplies

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday.--The visible supply of wheat in the United States is 62,013,000 bushels, as compared with 63,571,000 bushels last week, and with 81,748,000 bushels at this time last…

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Wheat Export Dela. [By Telegraph.] MELBOURNE, [?]

The Australian Star · Friday 5 February 1904 · page 6

The export of wheat has [?]layed owing to the scar[?] sailors. The latter are refus[?] 10s a month…

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