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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1905

6,278 stories in Sydney's papers · page 77 of 250

On the Land. Farm and Station. the Pure Food Question. Crushing Injustice to Local Producers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 3

The German Government has been credited by the United States and other produce exporting countries with working its health laws to secure the benefits of prohibition to…

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Bathurst Experimental' Farm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 3

The Director of Agriculture, Mr. W. S. Campbell, received yesterday a splendid sample of the Jonathan apple grown at the Bathurst Experimental Farm. In size,…

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The Crops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 3

MURWILLUMBAH.—Maize pulling is in active operation, and generally the yields are good…

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Crop Prospects

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 28 March 1905 · page 4

In the work of Inspection carried on annually over the railways of the State, the Railway Commissioners have an excellent opportunity of observing the condition of the country north,…

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Boracic and Butter

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 4

It is bad enough for a community to be commercially, damned for sins it is inclined to. But it is much worse of course when the damning decree is heard with respect to…

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Flesh-Eating Sheep

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 25

Particulars were given in the last issue of the "Town and Country Journal" of the mortality caused among the sheep on the run of Mr. Owen Daly,…

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Wheat Afloat

Evening News · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday, 5.30 p.m.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 4,220,000 quarters, and for the Continent of Europe at 1,840,000…

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Pastoral Outlook in Central Queensland

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 8

TOWNSVILLE, Tuesday.--Major Williams, Salvation Army commandant in North Queensland, has just returned from a tour of the western districts. He states the western…

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Shipping Butter for London

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 802

Do butter shipping facilities in New South Wales compare favourably with those of the most successful dairying countries? Without going outside Australasia for a…

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Sheep Drowned at Rockville

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 9

MANDURAMA, Tuesday.--Heavy rain fell yesterday afternoon in the district. A severe storm near Rockville, two miles from Mandurama, yielded 108 points within one hour. As the…

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Large Wheat Cargo

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 8

Arrangements have been made for the steamer Admiral Borresen, of the Commonwealth line, to load a full cargo of wheat at Melbourne and Geelong for a Spanish port. The steamer left…

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Export Market. Freight Charges on Butter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 13

A Brisbane firm has received the following communication from a leading Victorian butter exporter:—"We have every sympathy with you in endeavouring to get a reduction in charges, and think…

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London Wool Sales. (By Cable.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 16

London, Wednesday, 6.60 p.m.—At the wool sales this evening competition was brisk, and everything was Arm at improved rates. At the sales yesterday the following prices were…

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Railway Commissioners on the Wheat Area

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 9

A remarkable forecast of the probable area which will be sown in wheat in New South Wales this season was supplied to the press by the Railway Commissioners on Monday…

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Australian Produce. the Butter Position. lONDON, Feb. 24

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 780

There were heavy arrivals of Australasian butter last week, the Ophir bringing 22,000 boxes, the Sophocles 8000 boxes, and the Oriana about 4000 boxes, all from Australia…

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Wheat Supply. London, Tuesday, 5.30 p.m

The Australian Star · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 1

The quantity of wheat afloat is estimated at 4,220,000 quarters for the United Kingdom, and at 1.840,000 quarters for the Continent…

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Armidale and New England Pastoral and Agricultural Association. Twenty-sixth Annual Exhibition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 800

JUMPING IN THE HUNTERS' PLATE. GRAND STAND. MUSTERING FOR THE GENERAL PARADE OF STOCK AT THE RINGSIDE…

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Among the Cattle on the Paterson River. at Tocal and Duninald

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 22

There is no more interesting way, to my thinking, of spending a holiday than by paying a visit to some of our cattle-breeding establishments. Fortunate is he who can get an…

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Boracic Acid in Butter. Its Use in Sydney. Medical Opinion on the Subject

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 5

"The authorities have refused to allow Australasian butter to enter the United States of America, on the ground that it contains boracic acid. Last month's consignments were…

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Manilla—A Prosperous Wheat=Growing Centre. (See illustrations on this [?]age and pages 29, 30, and 31.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 March 1905 · page 28

The prosperity of Manilla—and a casual glance round the district is sufficient to convince one that it is prosperous—might be summed up in the one word "wheat." Tim town, it might…

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