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Farming & the land, 1907

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Yorkshire Wool Letter. Bradford, Dec. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 4

We are now fast approaching the end of the year, when in the natural order of things we should be slowing down and buying as little as over we could. No firm cares about carrying…

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Victoria. the Wool, Sales. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 7

To-day's wool sale was particularly interesting, from the fact that it waa the flrat day of the large offerings of scoured wool, 1895 bales being submitted. There was…

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Wool Cargo by the Breiz Huel

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 8

The French steamer Breiz Huel, which loaded 3000 tons of ore at Port Pirie, is now loading 10,000 bales of wool at the Fitzroy Wharf Woolloomooloo Bay, and will sail next Tuesday for Dunkirk and Antwerp…

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The Dairy Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 10

A cow has to be fed a year, and her returns are the milk she produces in that time. Therefore do not be satisfied with a short test…

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Dairymen Are Poor Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 10

Commenting on the North Coast entries for the special farm prizes, offered by the "Sydney Morning Herald," one of the "On the Land" writers says:—…

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To-day's Commercial. N.s.w. Wheat Areas. Too Much Bain in Places

Evening News · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 3

The Sydney wheat market is very quiet, in sympathy with the weakness of the English and Continental centres, and the drooping tendency in Adelaide and Melbourne…

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Parramatta Quarter Sessions. (Before Judge Docker.) Mr. A. P. Dawson acted as Crown Prosecutor. Sheep-stealing at Flemington

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 10

William Murphy, a young man, pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing one sheep Ave owes and four lambs, at Flemington saleyards on October 22, the property of Oldham and another…

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'Farmers & Settlers' Association

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 2

On account of the busy season there will be no meeting of the Trangie F. and S.A. this month…

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The Farmer and Settler. Rice and Tomatoes

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 12

Remove the seeds from firm tomatoes and fill with rice, boiled and seasoned to taste, bake till the tomatoes are done. Or place boiled rice and…

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Selecting a Dairy Herd

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 7

The young farmer is constantly asking himself if it will pay him to invest his money in a dairy. No outsider can tell for certain whether it…

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Dairy Factory Reports

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 10

The Braidwood butter factory dis. The butter made realised the highest tributed £221 last month for cream prices in the Sydney market…

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Sorchum As a Hay Crop

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 11

Sorghum is one of the most prolific as well as easily managed fodder plants that can be found. It will do more actual good for stock per acre…

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Crops and Pastures

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 11

From 6½ perches, Mr. T. Randell, of Mudgee, has obtained 3200lb. of onions. A settler at Inverell has harvested…

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Success in Farming

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 6

Hard work alone will not make farming profitable. Hard work is an important factor in successful farming, as almost every prosperous farmer will…

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Progressive Mololng Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 11

On a comparatively small area at Killenbutta, near Molong, Mr. R. H. Gavin, by mixed farming last year, cleared a couple of thousand pounds…

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The Summer School. the Hawkesbury Agricultural Farm. Chapter I.

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 4

"What is the good of a "Summer School anyway? You get a hundred school-teachers for three weeks, and you fill them full of facts about…

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In the Atbury District. Labor and Crops

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 4

As in many others difficulty is being experienced in the Albury district in getting sufficient laborers. Particularly in the case with the harvesting…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 4

ALSTONVILLE.—Farmers are jubilant at the exceptionally good soason. Last week 825 points of rain fell, and the pastures, and especially the paspalum grass, re[?]ble wheat…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. the High Jump Record

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 4

No event in connection with up-to-date agricultural shows is more interesting to the public than the high jump. It may be argued that no good purpose is served by inducing…

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Warialda District. Stock and Crop Prospects. Spread of Prickly Pear

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 15 January 1907 · page 9

Mr. John Goleman, me stock inspector, having just returned from an extended tour of tho greater part of the Warialda district, reports that the country is…

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