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Farming & the land, 1909

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Cattle-driving London, Thursday, 3.10 p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 1

Twenty five men were yesterday arrested bear Clonmel, in county Tipperary, for cattle driving…

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WOOL. coldsbrough, Mort and Co., Ltd

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 13

In the absence of sales there is very little to report under this heading. At the close of the auctions the market ruled very firm at recent rates, which…

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The Wool Trade. Dalgety & Company. Ltd

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

The short holiday period in the wool trade terminates to-morrow (Saturday) as on Monday next sales will be resumed in the Sydney market. There will…

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Sydney Wool & Stock Journal. A Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades. Published Every Friday. Half-yearly Review of the Wool Trade

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 8

The first six months of the current season have come to a close, and in taking a retrospective glanee at the course of the wool market during that period the…

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Victorian Wheat Yield. the Chapman Sack. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 7

Great activity is already being shown at Williamstown Piers in shipping the wheat crop. There is a large surplus for export and wheat is coming forward much earlier…

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The Dairy Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 11

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, and no charge is made for the convenience, but a 2d. stamp should be…

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The Ideal Dairy Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 6

There is not a farmer on the south coast, or probably one in any of the dairying districts, who does not know all about Pritchard's Numba estate, and the beautiful stock it has carried…

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A Father's Discovery Finds His Son Dead. Gagged with Wool and Towel. a Waverley Mystery

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 4

Alaric Eungene Vincent Fairburn, 21 a clerk, died at his parents residence, 92 Ebley-street, Waverley, on Thursday evening, under rather peculiar circumstances…

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A Wonld-be Farmer. Manchester Boy's Longing for Australia

Evening News · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 6

By the last mail Dr. Arthur, the president of the Immigration League of Australasia, received the following amusing, if somewhat pathetic, letter from a lad in Manchester. It will be a…

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Farm Produce. Topics of "The Street."

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

An active autumn market is predicted by leading butter salesmen. The duced output in Victoria and the high prices now ruling and likely to…

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A Pedigree Dairy Herd

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 11

The dispersal of the Numba stud, to take place by auction sale on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, 28th, 29th, and 30th January, is one of the best…

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The Lime-washed Dairyman

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 11

Roars of laughter greeted the appearance of a supplier at a Hawera (N.Z.) butter factory one morning recently. A government inspector was…

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Official Organ: "The Farmer and Settler." Information and Help. By Uncle Wiseman. Government and the Stock Inspectors

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

Coolamon asks whether there are any instances where the minister pays a contribution to the salary of the stock inspector Answer: I have no official information on…

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The Single Tax and the Farmers. the Tax" Is Anti-monopolistic

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 3

"H.J.F." writes:—I am quite agreed with "M.P.J." in combating anything unfair and immoral. It is the equity of Henry George's…

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The Railways and the Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 3

Satisfactory progress has been made with the Maitland-Dungog section of the North Coast railway. At present 900 hands are employed on it…

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Experiment Irricaton Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 13

The opening, up of the Murrumbidgee northern irrigation scheme [?]anals is offering opportunity for the establishment of experiment farms. The…

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A British Farmer in Australia

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 1 January 1909 · page 7

In these days, since travelling has become something of a pleasure and has at any rate few of the discomforts which attended the voyager to…

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Crops and Pastures

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

YOU ARC 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 belt possible service ; no charge is made for the convenience, but a 2d. stamp should be…

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The Dairy DENMARK v. AUSTRALIA

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

Our Evans River correspondent writes: "It's comforting to hear that we poor Richmondites aren't so far behind after all. At least, such is the…

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The Health of Westralia's Dairy Herds

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

The trouble which has arisen between the owners of dairy herds in the State and the Central Board of Health (says Perth "Western Mail")…

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