Victorian Farmers Paying Their Debts. Four-bag Harvest in the Goulburn Valley
Sunday Times · Sunday 21 February 1904 · page 8
Some gratifying information is gleaned in a short talk with an agent for a money-lending institution, who operates in the Goulburn Valley, his headquarters being…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →London Butter Market
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
Also in The Daily Telegraph
A cable to hand from Mr. C. C. Lance. New South Wales Commercial Agent in London, states that the market for Australian butter is steady, and prices are unchanged. That is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Sheep Killed by Trifolium
Evening News · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
A remarkable cause of fatality in sheep has been reported to the Leicestershire Agricultural Society by their consulting chemist (Dr. Bernard Dyer). He states that some dense, tough ball,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wool Season
Evening News · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 7
Those wool-growers who have realised locally during the selling season just ended are now in a specially, fortunate position, as they have the reflection that all the disturbing elements…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →A Record Wheat Cargo
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 7
The steamer Bucrania, which cleared at the Customs-house on Saturday has on board the largest wheat cargo that has been exported from Sydney in one vessel. The shipment consists of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Butter Made in Victoria. Melbourne
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
The Director of Agriculture reports that 17,158 tons of butter reached Melbourne by rail and steamer in 1903, as compared with 13,695 tons for 1902…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Record Wheat Cargo From Australia
Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 4
The steamer Bucrania one of the B and C line was despatched from Sydney on Saturday for Newcastle on Tyne with the largest cargo of wheat that has been exported from…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →To-day's Commercial. Northern Boats Related. Russian Butter
Evening News · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
A private estimate compiled by a wheat buyer who has travelled extrasively since harvest in the country districts of N.S.W. and Victoria, is to the effect that heavy rains and high…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Wheat Traffic. a Lull in Operations
The Australian Star · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
Wheat-growers still appear to be dis[?]clined to forward their wheat, and evidently except a rise as one of the consequences of the Russo-Japanese war in the near future. Since…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Russia's Wheat Exports. Stopped for Want of Rolling Stock
The Daily Telegraph · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
LONDON, Saturday Afternoon.--The export of Russian wheat to Germany has censed, owing to the diversion of railway rolling stock for war purposes…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Tax on Russian Rolling Stock. Export of Wheat Stopped. London, Feb. 20
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 7
The export of Russian wheat to Germany has ceased owing to the diversion of rolling stock on the railway lines eastwards…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Farmers and Settlers. Gundagai
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
Mr. James M'Inerney, phesident of the Farriers and Settlers' Association, interviewed on his return to-day from Sydney, explained that the executive scheme which it is thought will…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Piti Town Labour Farm. Windsor
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
The conditions at the Pitt Town Labour Farm are reassuring. Firewood and pigs are the greatest revenue producers. As almost everything needed for home consumption is…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Crops
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
GRAFTON.—The late maize crops are Buffering severely from want of rain. WINDSOR.—The prolonged dry weather is seriously affecting the crops and pastures…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →On the Land. Farm and Station. the Live Stock Returns
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 February 1904 · page 5
The progress report of the Stock Board is the first official indication of the numbers of live stock carried at the end of 1903. Doubtless the work involved in collecting…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Butter Factories
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 7
A new butter-worker, larger than that bit-herts in use has been procured for the Wolumla Co-operative Factory. A new and more commodious manager's…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Condition of the Gulf Country. High Prices for Cattle
The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 6
BRISBANE, Monday.--Mr. Philp has returned from a visit to the Gulf country. He says that the district presents a flourishing aspect from a pastoral point of view, but rain is badly wanted…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Stock Returns. Comparison with Last Year. Sheep Increase by 1,036,924
Evening News · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 5
The returns showing the number of horses, cattle, and sheep on December 31 last in each of the 66 stock districts of New South Wales have now been received by the officer-in-charge of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Farmers and Settlers' Platform
The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 23 February 1904 · page 2
The council of the F. and S. Association has drafted the following platform for submission to the branches and afterwards for consideration by the…
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