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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

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Wheat and Sheep

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 8

Upon being asked to lecture at Mudgee I concluded that my best subject was "Wheat and Sheep." Farmers here are not going" in for…

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Sheep and Wool Experiments in Grazing Sheep and Its Effects Upon Pasture

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 14

Seeing that many of our inlanders are going in for sheep more in the farming than the pastoral sense, and that many farmers are going into…

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Silage for Dairy Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 7

In the current number of the Victorian Journal of Agriculture is an instructive article on silage and its use for dairy cattle written by J. S…

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Victorian Wheat Crop

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 6

The "Australasian" estimate of the Victorian wheat harvest shows a total of 23,001,350 bushels, which compares with this official estimate of…

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Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 10

The holidays have prevented any large volume of business being transacted since last report, but we will recommence active operations on Monday next, when we will…

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Sydney Butter Shipments

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 7

The shipments of butter from Sydney for the week ended Saturday last amounted to 13,742 boxes, of which 10,665 boxes went to the United Kingdom,…

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Cattle in America

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 12

Mr. John Clay, of Messrs. Clay and Robinson, the extensive Chieago live stock agents, has great hopes of the American cattle trade. Wheat they wanted there to day…

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America's Cattle Disease

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 14

The London "Meat Trade's Journal" says:—"The latest cablegrams from the States would indicate that so far from the outbreaks being confined to…

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The Sheep Fly

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 3

Mr.R.S.Allan writes:—Re the controversy on the above subject, despite the assertion of New Zealand's veterinary surgeon, there is much doubt as to the class of fly. Years ago…

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Cattle Driving in Ireland

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 4

LONDON, Thursday Evening.—Tweaty-five persons have been arrested near Clonmel, Ireland, for cattle-driving…

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Mating Time with Sheep

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 10

IN most districts the month of January is about the time lamb-raisers join the rams with ewes. In some of the later districts it is too early, as…

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The Wheat Market

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 12

The Christmas holidays have so interfered with business, that the doings in wheat during the past week have been of very small dimensions…

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Branding Wheat Bags

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 8

In view of the trouble and loss many farmers sustained in connection with the Farmers and Settlers' Cooperative Society, Ltd., the question…

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Station Stacked Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 8

Return furnished by the railway department of wheat stacked at various stations on all lines during the week ended 19th December, 1908:—Temora…

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The Wool Market

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 7
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The short holiday period in the wool trade has now practically terminated, as on Monday next sales will be resumed in the Sydney market. There will be auctions in Launceston on…

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An American Wool Parliament

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 14

In view of the proposed Woolgrowers' Club in New South Wale's the undernoted prices of the programme of business now being gone through by a…

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The Hunter Cattle. the Pastoralists White

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 12

It is a remarkable fact that the three highest prices realised at the Homebush sales on Thursday were for cattle from the Hunter, and all trucked…

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Wid[?]iewa at the Sheep Show

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 4

Following on last sheep show it was mentioned that there was a likelihood of Mr. J. S. Horsfall, of Widgiewa, not being a competitor at the next…

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Homebush Stock Market. Yesterday's Sales. Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 9

Upwards of 39,274 sheep (including lambs) were [?]alloted for sale, from [?]36 consignors, and about 33,000 were penned at the opening of the sales. The total pennings amounted to 35,555 head. One or two…

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