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Farming & the land, 1905

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Wool Classing. Some Valuable Points

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 10

We have persistently, for some years, urged upon our friends to give more attention to give classing of their clips that come to this market, and are glad…

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For the Man on the Land. Sheep Scab

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 6

During the week ending January 28, there were only 38 outbreaks of sheep scab in the United Kingdom, as compared with 117 in the corresponding…

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The Wool Sales. London, March 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 5

At the wool sales to-day the market was brisk, and everything firm at improved rates. March 23…

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Annual Review of the Wool Trade

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 6

Goldsbrought. Mart, and Co., Limited (Melbourne) have issued their annual review of the Australian wool trade for the reason l904-5. and an advance copy is to…

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English Commercial. Wheat Shipment. London, March 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 9

The cargoes of the ship G[?]useppina, consisting of 24,640 bags, from Victoria, November 12 for the Channel, has been sold at 33s per quarter of 4801b…

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Homebush Fat Stock Sales. Thursday, March 23, 1905. SHEEP

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 9

26,178 sheep and lambs wore penned out of 27,208 that had been drawn for, and being split up into a hundred and ten different consignments, nearly half…

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London Wool Sales. Closed at Highest Prices

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday, 5.50 p.m.—The wool sales closed this evening firm, at the highest prices of the series. At the sales yesterday the following…

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Wheat Supply. London, Thursday, 5.50 p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 1

The "visible" supply of wheat is estimated at 49,040,000 bushels…

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Flesh-Eating Sheep. "A Depraved Appetite." What the Chief Stock In-spector Says

Evening News · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 2

Particulars were given in a recent issue of the "Evening News" of the mortality caused among the sheep on the run of Mr. Owen Daly, at Mullengandra, in the Albury district, through…

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Sydney Cool & Stock Journal. A Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades, Published Every Friday. the Wool Trade. Thursday. March 23

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 8

Auction sales hold on Tuesday and Wednesday served to break the monotony of an otherwise uneventful week, and although the nature of the wool brought…

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The Wool Sales. High Prices Realised. LONDON, Thursday, 5.50 p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 1

The wool sales closed to-day with the market firm. The prices realised were the highest of the series…

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Farmers and Settlers' Association. Murrulebale Branch

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 12

The Fanners and Sottlers' Association held a meeting on Saturday, 11th inst., which was well attended. The president, Mr. J. F. Quilter, was in…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Milking Shorthorns in New South Wales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 3

When the long-contemplated Importation of [?]ilking Shorthorns to Illawarra is undertaken the selectors should certainly pay some attention to the Lincoln Red. This breed, which…

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Weather and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 6

COROWA Thursday.--Sine the first of the year, the rainfall has only registered 178 points, as against nearly 51n for the same period of last year. Pastoralists and agriculturalists…

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Socialism and Enterprise. the Banker and the Farmers. Closer Settlement Advocated

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 7

At the annual meeting of the Institute of Bankers of New South Wales, held in the call room of the Sydney Stock Exchange last night, Mr. J. Kussell French, who was elected…

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Our Products. the Dairying Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 March 1905 · page 6

BALLINA, Thursday.--The Aistonville creamery manufactured last month 49[?] tons of butter. Supplier were paid 858d for first-class, and 7[?]d for second-class butter…

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Kerry Cattle

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 8

The New Zealand Government has recently imported some Kerry cattle and the importation has met with some divergence of opinion among experts. Quite a…

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Real Value of Butter

Balmain Observer and Western Suburbs Advertiser · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 8

The real value of butter as an article, of diet is only dimly realised by the great majority of people who regularly use it. They know that it…

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Wheat for Callao

The Australian Star · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 2

The four-masted barque Tasmania has finished loading at Melbourne, and will probably sail to-day for Callao with 30,428 bags wheat…

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Wheat and Flour

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 25 March 1905 · page 8

The wheat markets are dull, and buyers inactive, owing to heavy shipments from Russia and the River Plate. Near cargoes are practically unaltered, but distant have declined…

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