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Farming & the land, 1906

7,572 stories in Sydney's papers · page 64 of 250

Wheat and Flour

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 8

The wheat markets are generally weak, and cargoes are neglected. Australian cargoes afloat are offering at from 30s 9d to 31s; per quarter, and New South Wales March-April…

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Bradford Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 8

The Bradford wool market is animated, but extreme quotations are limiting business. Tops: 40's are quoted at 17d per lb., 46's at 19d, common 60's at 26d, and super 60's at 26¾d. These…

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The Wool Trade

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 7

With the close of the fortnightly auctions on February 27 last the Sydney stores were practically cleared of stocks. There is a most excellent demand for good combing wools, but…

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Romance of Dairying. Pioneer of the Export Trade. The First Butter Sent to England

The World's News · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 5

To Captain Charles, M.L.C., of Cliff Towers, Wolseley-road, Point Piper, Sydney, belongs the great honor of creating the immense export butter trade now existing between Australia and…

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The Methodist Conference. Alteration Oe Stations. Pastoral Session

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 15

A pastoral session of the Methodist Conference was held yesterday morning, ex-President Rogers presiding. Several native ministers were admitted into…

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Autobiography of a Fleece of Wool

Evening News · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 10

Going right away back as far as I can remember, I formed the outer covering of an animated carcase called a lamb, who scratched me with his hoofs, rolled me about in the dust and mud,…

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Farm and Dairy. Original Articles. [All Rights Reserved.] Pullets Laying During Winter

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 10

IN order to make good progress in the production of eggs during cold weather it is essential that every egg-farmer should build up his own strain of winter-laying…

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Wool and Other Markets. the Sydney Market. Small Supplies

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 11

A period of quietude has come over the Sydney wool market, which will probably only be disturbed when the auction sales take place at the end of the mouth. Wool is wanted, and…

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The Liverpool Herald Published Every Saturday Morning. Liverpool Police Court. Tuesday, March 6Th, 1906. (Before the P.M. and Messrs. Chapman and Christiansen, J'sP.) Cattle Straying

Liverpool Herald · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 5

The Inspector of Nuisances proceeded against C. Briggs for allowing cattle to stray on the streets. Defendant, who pleaded guilty, was fined ls and ordered to pay 6s costs of court, in…

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A Farmer's Soliloquy

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 9

To saw? To split? That's the question. Whether it is better to rip 'em up Or get an axe…

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M. PADEREWSKI. Composing and Farming at His Swiss Home

The World's News · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 2

A representative of the "Echo de Paris" has visited the home of Paderewski, near Lausanne. The great pianist is at present composing an opera. He sits at the piano ten and sometimes…

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Dairying Company's Customers. Injunction Against Ex-employee

The Australian Star · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 11

The application by the Camden, Park Dairying Co. for an inunction against John Sanders, was again before the Chief Judge in Equity yesterday. The suit was one in which…

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Dairy Items

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 11

MILTON, Friday.--The district looks splendid since the recent rains. The Central Factory output of butter for January was 70,617lb., at an average price of 11⅜d per lb.: for February…

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Bee Farm on Shares

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 11

A correspondent, who says he is an experienced bee man, wishes to hear of someone on the coast who would he willing to allow him to work their hives on the halves…

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Dairy Instruction

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 11

PARENT, MARRICKVILLE: The place you refer to is the Wollongbar State farm, which is near Lismore, on the Richmond River, and about 350 miles from Sydney. You would reach…

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The Farm Cream Separator

The Mosman Mail · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 4

The cream separator for farm use has proved us utility, and we want to impress upon those of our readers with [?] cows the absolute necessity of…

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Wanted, a Railway. Cry of the Canowindra Farmers. Rich District Neglected. (From Our Special Reporter.) Canowindra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 11

"Only give, us a railway," said a knot of farmers to a representative of the "Herald" at the Canowindra Show on Thursday, "and we will prove in a very short time that we…

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The Grape Crop. Light Yield in the Ryde District

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 13

Reports from the Ryde district in regard to the grape crop are anything but encouraging. Taken right through, it is stated that the crop will not be equal to a half-average…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Proper Uses Oe Manures. the Farmer His Own Experimentalist

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 March 1906 · page 7

Nothing is more interesting in the literature of agriculture than the theory of soil renovation and plant feeding through the restitution to the soil of the constituent…

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Tuberculosis in Cattle

Sunday Times · Sunday 11 March 1906 · page 2

There is every reason to believe that a method of conferring immunity to our domestic cattle against that most insidious of all diseases—tuberculosis—has at last…

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