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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

6,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 65 of 250

The Increase in Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 5

The restocking question will shortly be revived by the publication of the final annual live stock returns. When the drought broke and it was learned that the sheep carried by…

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Sheep Shooting at Cowra

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 7

COWRA, Wednesday.--Numbers of sheep belonging to Mr. Goorge Lockyer, of Holmwood, have been shot lately, as many as four bullets being found in one carcase. The police are…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday, 7.50 p.m.—At the wool sales this evening business was firm at late rates. The following prices were realised yesterday…

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Queensland Butter Trade. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 6

It is understood that the mall companles, in order to secure the Queensland butter trade, suggest hiring refrigerated space on coastal steamors, and the transhipping of the…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 7

Prices at the wool auctions to-day continued firm, with a little better competition. March 15. The following prices were realised at the…

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On the Land. Fabm and Station. Effect of Bluestone on Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 5

Mr. R. W. Peacock, manager Bathurst Experimental Farm, reports in the "Gazotto" some interesting comparative results of three ways of treating seed wheat to prevent…

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The Wool Sales. a Firm Market. LONDON, Wednesday, 7.50 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day the market was firm at late rates…

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Disastrous Wreck. Another Wheat Ship Lost. 23 Hands Drowned. London, Wednesday 2.40 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 1

The ship Khyber, bound from Melbourne to Queenstown with a wheat cargo, is a total wreck on the Cornwall coast. Only three of her crew were saved…

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Immigration Commission. Farming in Western Australia. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 6

In giving evidence before the Immigration Commission to-day H. J. Brown, a farmer at Mourambcne, stated that some poople expected to start farming in the Garden of Eden,…

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Canadian Farm College. Philanthropist's Endowment. London, March 15

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 7

Sir William Macdonald, a Canadian philanthropist, offers to establish and endow at a cost of several million dollars an experimental farm college for training…

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Poultry-farmers and Cooperation. Initiating the Movement

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 7

A public meeting under the auspices of the Pig and Poultry Farmers' Association was hold at the Crystal Palace Hotel, George-street, last evening, to discuss the question of co-operation…

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Bathurst Farm Fruit. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 3

Sir,--I read with surprise Mr. Cecil Purser's letter to your paper, concerning codlin moth in pears from the Bathurst Government Farm. I bought and retailed a number of cases of…

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Farming in Canada. an Educational Experiment

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 5

LONDON, Wednesday.--The well-known Canadian philanthropist, Sir William Macdonald, offers to establish, and endow at a cost,of several million dollars, an…

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Our Products. the Dairying Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 March 1905 · page 7

MORUYA. Wednesday.--The annual general meeting of the Kiora Factory was tins week. The report and balance-sheetwere…

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Wool and Wheat Returns. Traffic by Rail

Evening News · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 3

The Railway Department has had a return prepared of the wool and wheat traffic of the present season, with a comparison regarding the traffic for the corresponding period of last…

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Our Staple Products. Wool and Wheat. Figures for the Season

The Australian Star · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 1

Inquiries made at the Railway Department this morning elicited the statement that wheat is still coming to hand in fairly large quantities, and provides a steady…

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Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 9
Also in The Sydney Stock and Station Journal

A quiet market has ruled during the past week, and the turnover in wool, which has been on limited lines, has been chielly confined to local scoured parcels…

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American Wheat

Evening News · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday, 2.45 p.m.—The visible supply of American wheat, according to "Bradstreet's," is 51,374,000 bushels…

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Sheep Breeding in England

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 17 March 1905 · page 10

England's shifting of preference from the heavy to the light beef animal (says the "National Provisioner") has not been the only recent evidence of a change in…

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