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Farming & the land, 1908

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 5

At the opening wool auctions for the week held at the Royal Exchange Rooms Bridge-street this afternoon two catalegues were offered covering [?]hales Harrison Jones and…

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Financial. American Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 9

A good deal of interest centres at present round the American wool market. What the trade desires to know is how far-reaching will the recent crisis be on the trade of that…

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Wool and Cotton Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 4

C. A. Eastway writes:—One hears so frequently that the American financial crisis is the cause of the fall in wool that nearly everyone connected with the trade accepts the…

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An All-wool Pack

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 9

So much fuss has been raised by wool manufacturers in Europe on the score of the presence of vegetable fibre in the ordinary jute woolpacks that strenuous efforts are…

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Victorian Butter Export. Season's Output to Date, 11,182%' Tons

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Sunday.-- Butter to the value of £1,118,250 has been exported from Victoria since the opening of the butter export season on July 1. It amounted in quantity to 11,182% tons, and…

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Price of Milk. Middlemen V Dairy Farmers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 4

A. J. Doust writes:—The correspondence through your columns during the last three months touching on the milk business plainly reveals a very unsatisfactory state of affairs…

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Gross Cruelty. Dead and Dying Sheep. in a Paddock Bare of Grass

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 4

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--The Horsham Court was engaged all day on Friday dealing with two charges of cruelty to sheep preferred against Samuel May, proprietor of May and Millar's…

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Training the Farm Worker

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 6

Hoo. Secretary Immigration League of Australasia, writes:-This question ^which was brought before Mr. Perry on Friday was dealt with, and a solution arrived at two- years ago…

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Manufacturing Farmers

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 4

Apparently, not only is a training fans necessary for boys, but also for adults. Many of the immigrants who arrive in this country are altogether ignorant of the first principles…

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Rain and the Fruit Crop

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 3

Heavy rains fell throughout the entire Cumberland district during Sunday, and orchardists view with no small degree of alarm the continued wet weather, as it is having a very…

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Conditions on the Hawkesbury. What Farmers Think of Irrigation

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 3

WINDSOR, Monday.—The unsettled weather is retarding operations on the farms, and a spell of fine weather to enable the farmers to prepare for winter crops is now desired. The…

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Floods in the Country Rise in the Hunter River. a Bridge Damaged. People on Haystacks. Farms Under Water

Evening News · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 5

SINGLETON, Monday.—For forty-eight hoars ending 9 o'clock this morning 594 points rain fell in Singleton. Jerry's Plains records 305 points, Balsa 415, Broke 429. On: Saturday night…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. an Overland Trip. From Cooma to Eden

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 4

An orator of the old times describe Monare a bounded by "the Micalago (now Michelago) Creek and the Tinderra Peaks on the north, Victoria on the south, the Pacific Ocean…

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Stations and Farms for Sale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 6

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

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Price of Milk. the Oppressed Dairyman. Meeting in St. George District

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 6

A small but representative meeting of the dairymen of St. George was held at Thornley' Hotel, Rockdale, on Saturday evening, preside, over by Mr. M M'Rae. The object of the…

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Training the Farm Worker. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 6

Sir,--This question, which was brought before Mr. Perry yerterday, was dealt with, and a solution arrived at, two years ago. At that time Dr. Arthur approached the then Minister…

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The Dairyman's Lot

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 4

The lot of the dairymen,. like that of the comic opera policemen, judging by the speeches delivered at a meeting of the, St. George dairymen, held at Rockdale on Saturday, is not a…

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Dairy Factories

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 February 1908 · page 7

BALLINA, Friday. --The half-yearly meeting of the Ballina Creamery Company was held yesterday. The annual report showed a profit of £719 on the half-year. The quantity of butter…

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Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 7

911 cattle were yarded out of 923 that had been drawn for, being made up of a large proportion of good to prime cattle, with some prime and heavy, a…

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Butter Exports

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 25 February 1908 · page 9

The exports of butter during the week ended February 22 totalled 6169 boxes, of which 5983 boxes were shipped to the United Kingdom, 14 to New Caledonia, 87 to Singapore, Java, etc., 34 to the South Sea Islands,…

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