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Farming & the land, 1908

8,773 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Butter That Will Keep

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 9

M. Ehrmann, a French chemist, has found, according to latest foreign files, that by a process which he describes as carbonating the cream before it is manufactured into butter, he succeeds…

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The New Butter Contract

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 7

The new butter contract which has been engineered by the Victorian Butter Shippers' Association with the help of the Minister for Agriculture,…

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London on Butter Grading

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 7

The London correspondent of the "Sydney Morning Herald" writes as follows:— "It is somewhat singular that the…

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Rape for Fattening Sheep

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 5

I cannot understand (writes Mr. D. F. Davies) why the farmers who are continually harping about scarcity of feed do not sow rape as soon as the…

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Sheep for Western Australia

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 4

Wood and Armstrong (J. B. Wood and Warwick W. Armstrong), Stock and Station Agents, The Olderfleet, Collins-street, Melbourne, report having sold to the Western Australian Government,…

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Inverell's Wheat Yield

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 5

Mr. G. E. Hogbin, Goonoorah, writes to say that the statement concerning the wheat yield in Inverell district appearing in a recent issue…

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Killed by Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 4

Mr. Hills, a farmer in Wellington district, last week had the misfortune to lose eight out of a fine team of ten draught horses through the animals…

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Wool and Tallow

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 9

Goldabroogh, Mort, and Co., Limited, have received the following cablegram:—"Wool.—Since opening this year, tops have advanced about /1 lb. Tallow —Since our, last report the market for mutton and…

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The Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 7

The wool sales here to-day evinced such an improved footing and better prices as to surprise brokers and growers, who characterised the Launceston sales on Monday as a fiasco…

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The Small Wool-grower

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 9

Mr. S. Farcy, principal of the National Wool Insitute, Sydney, writes: It was with very keen pleasure that I perused "Merino's" article dealing…

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The Long Wool Association

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 12

No. 1032, Dubbo, writes: I read In "The Golden Fleece" of the inauguration of a Long Wool Association. Will you please let me know if this association is now in existence…

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Travelling Sheep. Curious Case at Tamworth

Evening News · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 5

TAMWORTH, Friday.—A case of some interest was decided in the police court to-day. The stack inspector charged Patrick plunkett with not travelling sheep six miles in 24 hours…

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Victorian Wheat Yield. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 5

A few weeks ago the opinion was hazarded that the State's wheat yield would approximately amount to 12½ million bushels. A further inspection of the crops reveals no…

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Wool-top Making at Botany

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 9

F. W. Hughes and Co., Ltd., has been registered with a capital of £100,000, for the purpose of manufacturing wool-tops at Botany. The first…

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Sydney Wool & Stock Journal. A Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades. Published Every Friday. the Wool Trade. Thursday, January 9

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 10

It is a somewhat novel experience to have no wool sales during the first, three weeks of the new year, and buyers and sellers are beginning to find the recess…

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The Dairy Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 8

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to recognise the "Farmer and Settler" as your city representative. Write to us concerning anything you have to sell or wish to buy, or desire to know, and your own paper will conduct the business for you. Our object is to secure for subscribers the best possible service: no charge is made to other buyer or seller…

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The Farmers and Settlers' Association Of New South Wales

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 2

President, JOHN PERRY. (Quirindi). Vice-Presidents, J. WETHERSPOON (Gencoe), R. PATTEN (Comabella). Executive Council: W. P. DYCE (Coolamon), W. A. EWERS (Condobolin), L. COX (Wagga), F. PINKSTONE (Cootamundra), F. McROBERTS (Inverell) A. McARTHUR (Jerilderie), E. BYRNE (Cookardinia), T. C. WORBOYS (Metropolitan), E. D…

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The Dairy Type

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 8

A cow that is a great and economical producer has the dairy type, no matter what breed she may come from. She is found among nearly all…

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The Farmer's Creed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 7

More than sixty years ago Henry Ward Beecher, the great pulpil orator, gave voice to the following farmer's creed which possesses lasting…

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The Farmer and Settler. Wollongbar Farm Recommended. City Boys Turned Into Successful Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 10 January 1908 · page 3

Whatever may be the facts concerning the Hawkesbury agricultural college, writes our North Coast dairying correspondent, it is not true that the…

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