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Farming & the land, 1906

7,572 stories in Sydney's papers · page 9 of 250

Wheat Afloat

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday. 6.40 p.m.—The quantity of wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 1.950,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 1.315,000 quarters. The…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 78

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Co., Limited, have received the following cable from their London house, under yesterday's date:—"The quantity of wool available for…

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Shropshire Sheep. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 6

Tasmanian Shropshire sheepbreeders shipped per the Oonah for Sydney 20 shearing rams for various consignees, and per the Maheno on the last trip to Melbourne two…

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Agricultural and Pastoral. the Show Season

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 70

The show season for 1906 began yesterday with the opening of the Dapto exhibition, and the programme of events is being continued to-day. This is the 49th annual show held…

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London Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Goldsbrough, Mort, and Company, Limited, have received the following cable from their London house:-"The quantity of wool avail­able for forthcoming series of sales,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 2

At the wool auctions yesterday the tone of the market was most satisfactory. Two large cata- ' logues. covering 9200 bales-Messrs. John Bridge and Company, Limited, 492S, and Messrs. Dalgety and . Company, Limited. 4272-were offered. Of these 7674…

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A Choice Consignment of Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 86

On the 21st. inst there were shipped on board the steamer Osprey. bound for South Africa, ten two-tooth stud rams and ten two-tooth stud ewes, bred by the Springfield…

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Wheat Country Swept Bare

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 10

FORBES, Tuesday.—Sunday was the hottest day so far of the season, being 110deg in the shade. The heat was greatly accentuated by bush fires, the town being enveloped in smoke…

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The Recent Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 9

The Launceston wool sales last week realised £80,000, and the Hobart sales £100,000…

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The Australian Town and Country Journal "Past. Present, Future." Sydney, Wednesday, January 10, 1906. WHEAT V. WOOL

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 18

A discussion has been going on in one of the Sydney dallies as to whether wool-growing or wheat-growing is the most profitable industry. It is like the historical debating…

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The Rural Voice. the Price of Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 9

To the Editor.--In a paragraph appearing in your issue of to-day it is stated that a co-operative butter expert committee (presumably that connected with the Coastal Farmers'…

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Wool Arrivals. London, Jan. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 9

All arrivals of wool number 288,500 bales. Of these 125,000 have been forwarded direct to the manufacturers, and for the first series of sales of the year there…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 11

This afternoon the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, held their opening sale for the new year, when they submitted a very attractive catalogue, comprising some 5500 bales. There…

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Wheat-growing in N.s.w

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 6

Mr. W. E. Abbott writes:—Within the last 25 years, by improvements in ploughs and cultivators, and parallel improvements in harvesting machines, which enable one man…

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Tee Produce Markets. Tuesday Evening. Wheat Easier

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 78

Several days ago, owing to private cables from London that the market was dull and there being nothing on the surface to warrant a continuance, of the 3s 3d price for new…

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N.S.W. Wheat Harvest. Statistician's Estimate

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 11

The estimate of the probable yield of wheat in New South Wales for the present season has been completed, and Mr. W. H. Hall, the Acting-Government…

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Export of Butter. Meeting of the Committee. Prices and Qualities

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 6

The present state of the butter industry was discussed by the Butter Export Committee on Monday and yesterday at the Queen's Hall. The committee, which was appointed in…

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Shipping of Wheat. New Railway Jetty at Pyrmont

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 8

A new jetty has been constructed by the Sydney Harbor Trust in Pyrmont Bay. In June last it became evident to the authorities that the wheat harvest of 1905-6 would show a very…

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Wheat Stack's Burned. a Verdict of Incendiarism. Dubbo

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1906 · page 6

Mr. Burton[?] Smith, District Coroner, held an inquiry respecting the destruction by fire of seven wheat stacks belonging to James Crowley, of Murrumbidgerie, on the night of…

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