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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1907

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Land and Stock Values. Expensive for Beginners

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 5

More capital Is required to start farming to-day than at any previous time in the agricultural history of the State. The swift advance in the values of land and stock, while…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 5

DENILIQUIN.—The new butter factory has paid nearly £1000 for cream during its seven weeks' operations The output of butter has been 12 tons, realising a profit of nearly £20,…

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Suspicious Case at Ulmarra. a Farmer's Wife Ill

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 29 January 1907 · page 8

ULMARRA, Monday.--Doctor James Macky has announced to the Mayor, Alderman Gllssau, and to the Board of Health, that Mrs. Norman M'Leod, a farmer's wife, living about two miles…

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Pastoral Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 261

The progress returns of the number of stock in the Deniliquin district are: Sheep, 1,028,939; cattle, 23,586; sheep, 6639. A rather extensive sale of young stock took…

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Butter Cakes

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 41

To ½lb of butter add the same quantity of brown sugar, three eggs, the rind of two lemons, ¼oz of powdered cinnamon, and half the quantity of powdered ginger. Work into it as much…

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Pastoral. a Vexed Question

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 260

Mr. Reginald Wyndham, a well-known cattle-breeder and authority in the north of this State, writes on the question of single v plural judging. He doubts whether single…

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Color of Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 15

Messrs. Mills and Sparrow write from London, December 28, that the cold weather had steadied the London butter market, and French prices had advanced is a dozen on rolls and [?]…

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Sheep in Agriculture

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 260

The true function of sheep in agriculture is not always understood by men on the land, especially the young farmer in Australia, whose home training seldom gives him a…

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Wheat Afloat

Evening News · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—The wheat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 2,130,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 1,045,000 quarters. The shipments of…

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Casting Wheat

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 298

We reach Narromine with our loads of golden grain about 9 a.m., having camped overnight on the way. In every direction there are teams, some loaded, some unloaded…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 11

John Bridge and Co, Ltd., are offering to-morrow another large wool catalogue, totalling 63O0 bales, amongst which are some well-known brands. The selcetion is a high-class one, and quite on a par with the…

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Fertilising Wheat Lands

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 263

Professor Sir William Crookes, the distinguished chemist, and two professors of the Friburg University have discovered a process for extracting nitric acid from the…

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Local Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 11

The local wool sales were cortinued at the Royal Exchange yesterday afternoon, when three catalogues, totalling; 9523 bales, were presented. Buyers were in usual attondance,…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the local wool sales on Tuesday, the market was slightly easier, there being a large proportion of heavy wools of a not particular attractive character, but for all fine sorts, and…

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Queensland Butter Shipment. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 7

The R.M.S. Orient, which will leave Brisbane on Saturday for London, had bookod 15,332 boxes of butter. This is a record for Brisbane. The previous largest shipment by…

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Australian Produce in England. Butter

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 11

LONDON, December 28.--The past fortnight has been a very disappointing one as far as the colonial butter trade is concerned. In the early part of last week there was a good…

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N.s.w. Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 11

Messrs. J. J. Donnelly and Co., of Temora, have chartered the British barque Gael, 1516 tons register, now in port at Sydney, to load wheat for the United Kingdom or Continent. She will follow the ship Celtic…

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PASTORAL. The Season in New South Wales

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 9

Satisfactory reports of the condition of the country from the point of view of the farmer, pastoralist, and grazier have been received this week from our correspondents. Several…

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Austealasian Produce. London, Dec. 28. BUTTER

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1907 · page 7

It can hardly be said that at the moment of writing there is a butter market in London. There is plenty of butter here—to say that there are quite 90,000 boxes of Australasian…

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