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Farming & the land, 1905

6,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 250

Competitions for Young People Portrait of a Gentle Sheep This Time

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 March 1905 · page 7

Cut out and Complete this drawing. Competitors must be under 21. Two prizes-10/ and Half-a-Crown. Judge's decision must be accepted as final. No correspondence will be entered…

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Warwick Farm

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 March 1905 · page 6

To-morrow weights will be issued by Mr. J. Daly for the Warwick Farm meeting to take place on Saturday next…

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Pastoral Products

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 9

The quantity of wool manifested to arrive at Sydney yesterday was by rail, 89 bales…

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London Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 8
Also in The Daily Telegraph

A cable received by the Minister for Agriculture on Saturday from Mr. Lance shows a firm market at higher rates, the price being 102s to 105s per cwt. for New South Wales…

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Butter Factory for Murwillumbah

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 6

MURWILLUMBAH, Sunday.--A meeting of suppliers to the Byron Bay Co-operative Company was held here to-day for tho purpose of discussing the desirableness of having a branch…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 5

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, cable:—The market is about 7½ per cent. to 10 per cent. lover for greasy, coarse, and medium crossbred; also for greasy…

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Queensland Wood for Butter Boxes

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 6

It was represented to Sir Horace Tozer that the butter exporters of the southern States excused themselves for not using Queensland timber for butter boxes by stating that owing to…

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Sheep for the Government Fold

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 4

The labor party and the other knowing political ones who are at present so assiduously engaged in developing a want-of-confidence motion to fling out the Government when Parliament…

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Scripture in State Schools. Archbishop Carr's Pastoral

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 7

In his Lenten Pastoral Archbishop Carr referred to what he described as the persistent efforts still made by the Scripture Campaign Council to capture and…

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Queensland. Wheat Cargoes. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 8

It is estimated that the cargoes of the Kirkdale and Lalla Rookh, which are leading wheat at Brisbane, will reach about 3000 tons. This, including grain and flour already…

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A Western Australian Wheat Ship

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 8

Our Perth correspondent telegraphs:—"The barque Chili, which has arrived at Fremantle, has been chartered to load wheat. This will be the first vessel taking from western Australia a full cargo of wheat."…

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The Wool Sales. Firm Rates Maintained. London, March 10

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 7

The wool auction continued at firm opening rates. There were some withdrawals of merinos. March 11…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. That Rabbit Disease

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 8

Some regular correspondents to this column seem disposed to condemn Dr. Danysz and his proposals to the Premier untried. This is un-Australian, and decidedly…

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Brush Farm. Alleged Breach of Agreement. Judgment Reserved

The Australian Star · Monday 13 March 1905 · page 1

The attention of the Chief Judge in Equity (Mr. Justice A. H. Simpson) was occupied this morning with a motion to continue an injunction. In which the plaintiffs were…

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Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 2

Sheepskins.—We submitted a catalogue of about 7000 skins at our auction last Friday, and quitted the lots offered under active competition. The market was at times a little…

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The Butter Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 5

A deputation representing the recent conference of buttor manufacturers to-day interviewed Mr. Thompson, of the Aberdeen [?]ne, who is at present in Brisbane, relative to a…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Monday, 6.25 p.m.—At the wool sales this evening business, was brisk for all sorts except earthy, faulty merino, which were neglected…

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Herd Book of Devon Cattle

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 6

An interesting communication has been received by the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr. Duffus, from the Devon Cattle Breeders' Society, Somerset, England. At a meeting of the…

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Another Breed of Sheep Dogs

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 14 March 1905 · page 5

"La Nature," a French scientific Journal, gives pictures of the male and female of a new breed of sheep dogs, which are the outcome of a cross…

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