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Farming & the land, 1904

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Oversea Freight Market. Tending Upwards. a Wheat Loading Record

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.--The oversea freight market has again advanced, and is tending strongly upwards. Offers of 25s for fair-sized British ships in handy positions have been…

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The Wheat Harvest. From Country Station to Aboard Ship

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 8

When New South Wales, in the season 1893-4, produced a crop of 6,502,715 bushels of wheat from 593,810 acres—an average of 10.9 bushels to the acre—the Railway…

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A Wool Centenary. the Beginnings in 1804. Some of the Pioneers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 4

A hundred years ago John Macarthur was in London using all his efforts and whatever influcnce he possessed in the attempt to introduce Australian wool into England, and to…

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The Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 5

ALBURY.—The late rains have done considerable damage to crops. Many of the best crops are beaten down so much that it will be difficult to do anything in the way of…

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Milk, Ice, and Dairy Employees Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 10

The following officers have been elected by the above union:P—President, Mr. R. Bovle; vice-president, Mr. J. Wright, treasurer, Mr. Robertson: secretary, Mr. G. Saunders. The financial statement…

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A Sad Poisoning Case. a Farmer's Wife Kills Herself and Children

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 48

Mr. Harry Pinchin, coroner, of Singleton, and Mr. Bowman, Government medical officer, held an inquest on Monday into the circumstances surrounding the death of Mrs…

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The Farmer. Feeding Farm Horses

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 10

The treatment farm horses receive with regard to feeding is frequently the reverse of what it should be. Harvest work will soon be over, and horses that have had the advantage…

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Talgai West, Darling Downs Queensland. A Progressive Dairying Industry

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 32

TAIGAI WEST, owned by the Scottish Australian Invesment Company Sydney and managed by Mr. Austin Dowling is situated close to Hendon railway station on the main…

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Will Help the Farmers

The Australian Star · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 4

Mr. Chamberlain, in Writing to General Sir Richard Harrison, who is the Unionist candidate, for the vacancy in the representation of Mid-Devon (Ashburton), due to the death…

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"Helping the Farmers." What Mr. Chamberlain Proposes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 7

LONDON. Tuesday.--Mr. Chamberlain has addressed a letter in reference to his fiscal proposals to General Sir Richard Harrison, the Unionist candidate for Mid-Devon, or…

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Field and Garden Reminders for January. (Specially written for the "Town and Country Journal.") the Farm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 27

The exceptionally fine rains that, have fallon Ihrcughout the State keep all vegetation growing, SO much so that farm produce will begin to be actutlly a drug in the market. But…

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Farmers Who Do Not Attend Lectures

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 25

A large number of the more Intelligent farmers of Victoria take a fairly deep Interest In the lectures that are delivered to them from time to time by the exports sent touring over…

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Dairying on the Richmond

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 6 January 1904 · page 11

Statements collected by our special commissioner in September of dairying on the Richmond, says a contemporary, gave a certified results which showed that the returns from the…

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Wheat Cargo

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 7 January 1904 · page 4
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LONDON, Wednesday.--The Polly Woodside's cargo of New Zealand wheat, one third long-berried, has been sold at 29s 3d per quarter…

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The Wheat Trafic

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1904 · page 8

About 200 tons of wheat is arriving at Brisbane daily. The steady stream in which grain is coming forward is enabling the Railway Department to cope with the traffic without…

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Prize for Wheat. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1904 · page 4

A sub-committee of the Dubbo P. A. and H. Association has framed the conditions of a prize to be offered by the society for the best sample of wheat grown in the district. The…

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The Wheat Fleet. Inward and in Port

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 7 January 1904 · page 7

The attached list shows at a glance the vessels that have been chartered to load this season's wheat in New South Wales, Victoria, and South Australian ports:—…

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To-day's Commercial. Wheat Firm. Tobacco Amalgamation

Evening News · Thursday 7 January 1904 · page 5

For the first "time in Australian history, the three chief wheat capitals, Sydney. Melbourne, and Adelaide, are in line on wheat values, namely, 2S 11d to 3s per bushel. The brisk inquiry…

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The Wheat Traffic. Receiving Sheds at Darling Harbour. How the New System Is Working

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 7 January 1904 · page 4

With a view of assentaining how the work of receiving the wheat at Darling Harbour is progressing a representative of this journal yesterday paid a visit to the grain-receiving sheds at Darling…

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