Our Note Book Turf Talk and Tips the V.A.T.C. MEETING. Oakioigh Plato Probabilitios-The St George's Stakes-Howmerket and Cup Woights-Horses Likely to Run Well-Warwlck Farm Winners-Mohoir and Loador. Selections for Moorefield
The Arrow · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 7
TO-DAY there will be racing at Moorefield, where one of the usual programmes will be run off. Visitors will be accommodated with a number of special…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Insurance Against Drought
The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 7
Shall we ever again experience such a drought as that which closed last year after a run of nine moderate to bad seasons? When the next drought comes, will it find…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Dairying Intelligence
The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 17
GOULBURN, Friday.--For the ten weeks which Gurrundah butter factory has been running this season 34,877lb, of cream were treated, yielding 16,390lb. of butter, which realised £550148…
Continued on Trove, page 17 →Farm and Garden. Original Articles. Fattening Poultry for Market
Liverpool Herald · Saturday 6 February 1904 · page 11
THE standard weights of Barred Plymouth Rocks are, cock, nine and a half pou[?]ds, hen, seven and a half pounds, cockerel, eight…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The Wool Market
Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1904 · page 8
Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Limited, report: The approaching end of the season is very apparent in the nature of the offerings now being brought forward. Superior wools are few and far…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Farmers Are Socialists. But They Don't Know It
Sunday Times · Sunday 7 February 1904 · page 4
"Farmers," says a Labor Member in the Federal House, "are Socialists without being aware of it themselves. Their every public movement, nearly, is Socialistic and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mary Farrell's Fall. Seduced at Sydenham by Sordid Scroucher. His Wealthy Parents Didn't Know! Barraclough, "The Ostrich Farm Fellow," Didn't Want to See His Sweet Friend Taken Down
Truth · Sunday 7 February 1904 · page 3
At the Newtown Police Court on Wednesday, 27th ultimo, before Mr. Isaac: S.M., Mary Farrell proceeded against Ernest Edwards for maintenance of an…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →English Butter Market
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 4
The Commercial Agent in London, Mr. Lance, has sent the following report to the Minister for Agriculture regarding the condition of the English butter market during last week:…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →On the Land. Farm and Station. Notes on the Berry Show. £20,000 Worth of Dairy Cattle
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 10
This year the Berry Society wisely dropped the fourth day that was tacked on to the fixture of 1903. A prize list of some £800 in solid cash provided just sufficient classes to…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Butter in London. a Steady Market. "Fishy" Butter
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 10
The Minister for Agriculture has received the following cable messages from Mr. C. C. Lance, commercial agent in London, regarding the condition of the English butter market:—…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The Wool Market
Evening News · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 7
The wool sales held during the week have brought the regular weekly series to a close. There is to be a recess of a week, after which sales will be held on four days of the following…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Sheep in the State. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 4
Sir,—In affording the information to your represe[?] tative with regard to the above a few misconception[?] have crept in, which I trust you will permit me to explain, otherwise they would possibly create a wrong…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Wheat and Politics. to the Editor of the Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 3
Sir,—There is nothing so injurious to a Rood cause as to attempt to bolster it with a bad argument, and when Mr. Carruthers blames the See Government for not making our wheat yield as prolific as the wheat…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The Wheat Supply. Carriage by Rail. Holding Back for War Prices
Evening News · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 5
The number of bags of wheat received to-day at the Darling Harbour Railway Station was 24,000, an increase of about 9000 upon the number received on Saturday. The Railway…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Offers for Moat Farm
Evening News · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 5
An English paper says that the owner of the Moa, Farm at Clavering, the scene of Dougall's crime, concerning which several cables were published in the "Evening News," has received over…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Crops
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 February 1904 · page 10
BLAYNEY.—Great quantities of grain are passing through the station bound for Sydney LITHGOW.—Grain traffic from the west is coming through very heavily, and the staff…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →Wheat Traffic
The Australian Star · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 5
At has, been generally estimated that the harvest this season will run into about 28,000,000 bushels. Since December 1, when the railway haulage of wheat began, about 1,000,000…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Wool Arrivals
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 8
Tim wool season has now practically closed. Only about 3000 bales per week are new received at the three depots Comparing the returns for those for last…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Big Sheep-shearing Tallies
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 7
The Canterbury (N.Z.) "Times" gives a picture of there shearets, who at Seapott's Weber Hawke's Bay recently shore by hand 677 sheep in eight…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The Wheat Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 9 February 1904 · page 7
The Russian wheat harvest is such a great national asset that the effect of the war on the wheat market will be one of the commercial interests involved. In the event of a…
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