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Farming & the land, 1907

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Wool Sales Brisk Competition London, Tuesday, 6.30 p.m

The Australian Star · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 1

The wool sales opened to-day with brisk competition. Prices were unchanged compared with those ruling at the close of the last series…

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Tuesday, January 15. (Before His Honor Judge Docker.) Flemington Sheep Stealing Case. Prisoner Sentenced

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 2

William Murphy (28), who, on the previous day, pleaded guilty to sheep stealing at Flemington saleyards, was brought up for sentence…

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The New P.p. Act. What It Requires. Old Sheep Fund Moneys: Netting "Grouped" Holdings

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 11

For the following useful summary of the provisions of the recently-passed Pastures Protection Amending Act, which makes some important alterations in and additions to the existing…

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The Warwick Farm Semaphore

Referee · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 1

One of the best for the display of scratchings, jockeys riding, &c., in Australia. Underneath are the scratchings office, scratching windows, &c. The shelter-shed alongside is a welcome protection against rain or the rays of the sun. The betting ring is shown also in the picture…

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Dapto's Jubilee Show. with Especial Reference to the Pioneers and Veterans of This Great Dairying District

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 150

THE Dap[?]o Agricultural and Horticultural Society's Jubilee Show, held last week, was an interesting event in the history of Australia. Fifty years ago the first exhibition was held…

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Agricultural and Dairying. South Coast Milking Competition

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 132

Another meeting has been held in connection with the proposed South Coast milking contest. There appears to be, however, little hope of anything really practical…

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"Sydney Mail" and "S.M. Herald' Farm Competitions. North Coast Division

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 134

Results of the North Coast Division of the "Sydney Mail" and "Sydney Morning Herald" Farm Competitions were published in last issue. A table of points awarded under the…

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Weather, Pastures, and Crops

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 133

The first month of the year is likely to see heavy records in several parts of the State. The monsoonal falls in the Northern portion of the Western Division, and in nearly the whole of the north-west have come…

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Teachers and Farming

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 141

Conversation with some of the teachers now in Sydney for their holidays shows that their attention is being directed very keenly to farming. In the summer holiday schools…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 6

COROWA.—Signs are not wanting that dairying will play no unimportant part in the future development of this District. The steady growth is more easily understood when the…

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A Farmers' Parliament. Country People's Disabilities

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 6

Mr. James Fulton, of Underbank, writes:— A short time ago, in one of your articles 'On the Land,' you struck the nail pretty fairly, on the head when you gave the remedy…

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Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 7

The interim statement for the half-year ended September 30, 1906, of the Coastal Farmers' Co-operative Society, Limited, was presented to the shareholders at the half-yearly…

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Successful Sale of a Dairy Herd

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 23

The recent dispersal sale of Mr. C. Sharpe's herd of milking Shorthorns at Albion Park was one of the most successful sales…

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The Farmer. In Sight of Canoblas. NO. 3. Cranberry to Cudal

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 26

The farmer or other industrialist who takes pleasure in his occupation, not only gets a better ultimate reward for his industry than one whose sole object is the profit he can make,…

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A Great Poultry Farm. Orpington House, Kent

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 16 January 1907 · page 27

This farm is not entirely unknown in Australia. The founder and proprietor, the late Mr. William Cook, visited the Australian States a few years ago, and came into contact with the…

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Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 6

The prices which wool commands in the world's markets are naturally a source of gratification to pastoralists in Australia, who know, of course, that the…

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American Wheat

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 4

LONDON, Wednesday Evening.— The visible supply of American wheat, according to "Bradstreet's," is 80,673,000 bushels…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 8

The selection at to-day's wool sales was perhaps the choicest seen in Melbourne this season, high-class Tasmanian greasy merinos, fine dry Queensland scoured, and light…

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London Wool Sales

The Australian Star · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 7

Messrs. Gibbs Bright, and Co. are in receipt of the following cable from their London house:--Crossbred wool, market, firm; prices are par to 6 per cent, higher than…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Thursday 17 January 1907 · page 6

At yesterday's local wool auctions two catalogues were offered, covering 9957 bales— Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson, and Company, Limited, 6168 bales; and the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile…

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