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Farming & the land, 1908

8,773 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 250

Wheat Shipments. London, Monday, 3 p.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 6

The quantity of wheat afloat is estimated at 3,790,000 quarters for the United kingdom, and at 1,720,000 quarters for the Continent. The shipments from Atlantic ports last…

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Canadian Cattle Supply. Insufficient for Export. London, Feb. 9

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 7

Mr. S. A. Fisher, Canadian Minister for Agriculture, speaking at a meeting of stock-raisers in Ottawa, said he did not favour the provision of cold storage…

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Dairy-farmer's Loss. Byron Bay

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 7

The residence of Mr. W. B. Marr, a dairyfarmer, a couple of miles out of town, was totally destroyed by the on Saturday night. Mrs. Marr, who was in bed with her two young…

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Watering the Thirsty West. After Barren Jack Dam Is Built. Example at North Yanco. the Demonstration Farm

Evening News · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 6

NORTH YANGO.—The Minister for Works,and those who accompanied him from Sydney on his visit of inspection of the great water conservation work at Barren Jack, reached here…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 5

BEGA.—At the half-yearly meeting of share-holders of the Bemboka Co-operative Butter Company, Ltd., Mr. G. E. Ward, chairman of directors, presided. The report and…

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Farmers' Meetings

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 5

OBERON.—The department has refused an application for a special grant made by the A., H., and P. Association for the purpose of effecting necessary repairs to the ground and…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. "Herald" and "Mail" Farm Competitions. on the South Coast

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 5

Mr. David Manson is one of the farmers on the South Coast who believes in lucerne, and his belief is founded on satisfactory experience. His property, "Johnson's Meadows," is…

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Stations and Farms for Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 6

Classified advertisements under this heading will be found on page 3…

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Diseased Dairy Herds Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Disease. London, Monday. 3. p.m

The Australian Star · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 1

As a result of the drastic measures adopted by the Board of Agriculture for the suppression of the outbreak of foot and mouth disease at Gorgil in Midlothian, it is believed…

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Farmers Telephones

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 11 February 1908 · page 6

Our Melbourne correspondent reports that Mr. Austin Chapman says that when he stated in Sydney the other day that the Government hoped to provide farmers with telephones at is…

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Pastoral Notes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 395

The Tamworth Pastures Protection Board has been requested to find a suitable area for the purpose of continuing the Danysz rabbit experiments…

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Wool Classing

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 18

To say that our wool industry is first and foremost the greatest source of the wealth and progress of New South Wales is, perhaps, a truism. That being so, it is just…

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Butter for South Africa

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 398

Owing to the difficulty in obtaining freight from Buenos Ayres to South African ports, supplies of butter from Argentina have been very limited of late, no steamer having…

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Gold and Butter Shipments

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 12

R.M.S. Orotava, which cleared to-day for London via ports, took from Melbourne gold specie and bullion valued at £21,550, comprising five boxes of bar gold of the value of £13,050, shipped…

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Does Lucerne Blow Sheep

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 398

A correspondent opens up this interesting question:—"Whenever sheep, especially lambs, are put on a fresh pasture, put them there when the forage is dry, and in the forenoon,…

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Pastoral. a Plea for the Silo

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 394

Householders must have been startled on reading in Friday's papers that prices at Homebush had risen the previous day for both sheep and cattle, and that the market…

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Sydney Wool-sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 11

Wool sales" were held yesterday at the Sydney wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 7435 bales, and the sales, including private transactions, amounted to 4788 bales, as…

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Today's Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 11

Dalgety and Company, Limited, will offer a catalogue of 3804 bales at the Royal Exchange, Bridge-street, this afternoon, commencing at 3 o'clock prompt. The following brands are among those to be offered. viz…

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Local Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 11

The position of local offerings and sales of wool this season compared with earlier seasons is clearly shown in the following table which gives the statistics from the…

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Scottish Cattle. an Argentine Prohibition

Evening News · Wednesday 12 February 1908 · page 6

LONDON, Tuesday Evening.—The Government of the Argentine Republic has prohibited the importation of Scottish cattle. [Much stock is imported into Argentina for…

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