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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

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Experimental Farms Fruit. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 3

Sir,--In answer to a correspondent, W. Glaze brook, who refers to a former letter of mine, wherein I stated that in one dozen Bon Chretien pears from the Bathurst Experimental Farm I…

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Shortage of Rolling Stock. the Farmers Suffering

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 7

LONDON, Monday Afternoon.--Owing to the diversion of locomotives and rolling stock to Siberia, 180,000 cartloads of grain have accumulated at Russian wayside…

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Maize as a [?]ny Crop

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 27

When cut green and made into hay, matze forms a very excellent fodder for all kinda of stock. As a rule, farmera who grow a few acres of maize aim at consuming it in a green…

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The St. Louis Dairy Test

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 27

In a recent issue of the "American Agriculturist" Mr. H. H. Hinds gives his deductions from the St. Louis dairy tests. He says:— The fact that reliable data is slow in…

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Dairy Industry

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 13

At the monthly meeting of the North Coast Co-operative. Company the business for the four weeks was reported to have been highly satisfactory. The pig supply showed an increase…

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Regulating the Banana Crop

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 22 March 1905 · page 13

The output of bananas from the Cairns district has during the past two or three months (says the Townsville "Bulletin") been so limited that it was generally believed that the falling…

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Export of Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 6

The White Star liner Persic, which sailed yesterday, loaded at Sydney 13,549 bags of wheat for Liverpool, Messrs. Dalgety and Co. forwarded 4900 bags, Messrs. J. Bell and Co. 4000 bags,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 9

Auctions were continued today (Wednesday) at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when catalogues were submitted by the undermentioned brokers…

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Our Products. Butter for England

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 6

The steamer Persic, which sailed from Sydney yesterday, took 16,029 boxes of butter for London. The consignees included: Mr. R. Hay 2016 boxes, J. T. Brown 4575, D. Garrad 5529; J…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 7

The wool market is brisk, and prices hardening. Coarse crossbreds are ½d dearer than the lowest point touched during the present series…

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The Wool Sales. Everything Firm. LONDON, Wednesday. 6.50 p.m

The Australian Star · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 1

At the London-colonial wool sales to-day the market was brisk, and everything was firm at improved rates…

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Wheat-growing in the North. the Tenterfield District Competition. Some Astonishing Yields. a System for Other Districts

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 5

The particulars of the wheat-growing competition lately carried out at Tenterfield under the auspices of the local Agricultural Society deserve to be widely known throughout the…

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Dairymen's Picnic

Evening News · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, the second annual outing of the Metropolitan and Suburban Dairymen's Association took place at Lane's Garden, Clontarf, when some…

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Queensland Dairying. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 5

The want of rain is making itself felt in several dairying districts, where the supply of cream shows signs of falling off materially, and the shortage promises to affect the butter…

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Parramatta District. the Orange Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 5

Rome splendid showers fell in the Hills districts yesterday, and they will have a very beneficial effect on the orange crop, which is at present looking most promising. With a few more showers the orange…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Irrigation Prospects

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 5

The coming session of Parliament will be looked forward to with keen anxiety by settlers whose prospects of successful occupation of their land largely depend upon…

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DAIRYMEN. Their Annual Picnic

The Australian Star · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 2

The second annual picnic of the Metropolitan and Suburban Dairymen's Association was held at Lane's Gardens. Clontarf, yesterday, and considering uncatisfactory…

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The Dairying Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 6

BALLINA, Wednesday.--The Alstonville Creamery Company has been advised by cable from London that the shipment of butter just sold there realised the handsome price of 106s…

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Dairymen's Association Picnic

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 23 March 1905 · page 2

Undismayed by the unfavorable weather conditions--for rain fell briskly at intervals throughout the day--some couple of hundred visitors attended the second annual picnic yesterday of…

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