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Farming & the land, 1908

8,773 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 250

For the Butter Maker

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1908 · page 2

Good Duller is often made without either skill or care by mere accident, but to give any assurance of success you must add to the best facilities with skill and…

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Phenomenal Wheat Returns

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1908 · page 12

Mr. T. Pengelly. of Aldinga, 30 miles south of Adelaide, has been experimenting with eight or nine different kinds of wheat, the crop yielding from 30 to 71 bushels per acre. The wheat giving…

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Farm and Garden

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1908 · page 2

It is impossible for anyone to tell how bulls will breed until they are tested, yet the intelligent and careful herdsman and farmer can guess with approximate…

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Charlie Towns a Farmer

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1908 · page 8

Ex-champion Charlie Towns has retired from scutling, for a goodly period at any rate, and last night he left in the Kyogle for Grafton, on route to Risebank, near Lismore, where be…

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Butter Factory Reports

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 9

LISMORE, Saturday.--The North Coast Cooperative Company, for the past month manufactured 420 tons of butter, of which about 4 per cent. was second class; they paid for A1…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. the Success of Butter Grading. Expiring Efforts of Antigraders

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 4

The indisputable successes achieved by the more general introduction of the system of grading butter for export have almost completely silenced the stay-behind section which…

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Price Oe Milk. St. George Dairymen Decide on Rise. Families Sacrificed for Money. Dead Cattle in Water Holes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 7

A large meeting of the dairymen of the St. George district was held at Thorhley's Grand Hotel, Rockdale, on Saturday evening, to consider the advisability of increasing the price…

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Price of Milk. a Penny a Quart Extra. the Dairyman's Hard Lot

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 6

A largely- attended meeting of the dairymen of the St. George's district was held at Thornley's Grand Hotel, Rockdaie, on Saturday evening, to consider the advisability of increasing…

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Fruit Crops Fail

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 4

PARKES.—The fruit crops about Bumbury have proved a total failure this season, the late frosts being the chief cause…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 4

BEGA.—The output of the Bega Cooperative Creamery Company, Limited, for the mouth of December was 76,072lb butter, which realised £3419 3s 10d gross. Suppliers received…

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More Immigrants. Domestics, Farmers, and Miners. Returned Australians From South Africa

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 6

The Abordeen liner Moravian, which arrived at Sydney yesterday from London, via Capetown, brought among her third-class passengers a large number of immigrants, both male…

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The Soil Settlement Production General Notes. Farmer's Experiments

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 9

The system of semi-experimental agricultural experiment work, carried on by private farmers under Slate control, has been pushed to greater lengths in Victoria than here, and largely…

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The Lot of the Dairyman

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 6

According to a statement made by Mr. M. M'Rae, at a meeting of Illawarra suburban dairymen on Saturday, convened for the prosaic purpose of increasing the price of milk to the…

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Price of Milk. a Suburban Increase. Penny Per Quart Advance. Action of the Illawarra Suburban Dairymen

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1908 · page 7

A well-attended meeting of the Illawarra suburban dairymen was held at Thornley's Hotel, Rockdale, on Saturday, for the purpose of considering the advisableness of increasing…

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Sheep and Wool Sydney Wool Sales

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 5

On Tuesday next. January 21, the second half of the weekly wool sales of the Sydney 1907-8 season will be opened. Great interest is centred…

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Butter Exports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 9

The exports on butter during the week ended January 11 totalled 9952 boxes, of which 9610 boxes were shipped to the United Kingdom and the Continent, and 312 to China, 17 to South Sea Islands, and 6 to…

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Pastoral Finance Association Ltd

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 2

Sheepskin.—At our unction last Friday a full muster of buyers was in attendance and for all lines competition was very strong. Fresh orders were in the market, and as a result the best…

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Travelling Sheep Case

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 4

A message from Tamworth reads:— "The Bench dismissed a case to-day, in which Patrick Plunkett was summoned by Inspector Dowe, of the P.P…

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Medeah Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 9

J.W.N., PARKES, writes:--"In another packet I am sending you a head of wheat (or barley). Will you kindly let me know through your 'Soil' column the name of it, also if it is worth cultivating, or anything you…

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Wheat. RECEIPTS

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 4

The total bags of wheat received at Darliny Harbour, Sydney Goods, Newt-own, and Clyde, from July 1, 1997, to Jan. 13…

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