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Farming & the land, 1909

8,553 stories in Sydney's papers · page 26 of 250

American Wheat Supply London, Wednesday, 6.40 p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 6

The "visible" supply of wheat in tine united States is estimated at 81,000,000 bushels…

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London Wool Sales. Good Competition. London, Wednesday. 6.40, p.m

The Australian Star · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 6

At the wool sales today good competition prevailed at opening rates. Good merinos barely maintained their November level…

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The Soil Settlement and Production. Transforming a Sheep Run. Mount Horeb Estate. Big Work of Improvement. Extensive Fodder Growing

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 4

Midway between Gundagai and Tumul is the Mount Horeb Estate which has for some time been undergoing a process of having improvement that has rather staggered the old school,…

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Eight Prairie Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 7

Messrs. Hain and Searight, Sydney, in conjunction with Messrs. Lowcock, Brougrhton and King, have been entrusted with the sale of "The…

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Official Organ "The Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 2

President Patten will attend the district council meeting, to be held at Cowra on 23rd inst., and will try and meet the Canowindra branch, and also…

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Crops and Pastures

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 8

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 objects is to secure for subscribers the best possible service no charge is made for the convenience, but a 2d. stamp should be…

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Wallandool Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 7

The gradual cutting up of large estates in N.S.W. and Victoria has been proceeding with increasing rapidity for some time, and the…

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A Clen Innes Farm

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 7

Messrs. McGregor, Travers and Dale have received instructions from the executors of the late John Walmsley, to sell at Glen Innes. on Saturday…

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Australian Dry Farming. Self-mulching Surfaces

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 8

Mr. K. W. Peacock, manager of the Bathurst experiment farm, contributed to the science congress sitting in Brisbane, a paper which he…

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Farm Produce. Topics of the Street

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 13

Shortage of supply of trucks by the railway is the prevailing topic of "the . street," chaff being the commodity principally affected. With the…

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Government Bee Farming

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 16

The apiary in connection with the university of California numbers forty colonies, and has representatives of each (if the six varieties of bees of…

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Every Farmer a Poultry Breeder

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 15

Nearly every reader of "The Farmer and Settler" is a farmer or has an inclination that way. Now, I want to say here that every man on the land…

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Experiment Farm for Dubbo

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 3

On Saturday a deputation, including Mr. J. Doyle (president) and other members of the F.S.A. branch, the mayor, and the president of the…

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Training Schools for Young Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 3

The minister for agriculture (Mr. Perry) has had under consideration the question of modifying and popularising the scheme of agricultural…

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The Railways and the Farmers Discriminating Rates

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 4

A correspondent gives an instance of the way in which discriminating railway rates operate against both producer and consumer in the country…

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Harassing Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 3

A mass meeting of farmers was held in Orange last week for the purpose of discussing the administration of the Rabbit Act, as carried out by the…

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From Loco. Driving to Egg Farming

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 15

That was a grand article by Mr. S. Gordon in our issue of January 1st headed "Commonsense in the Poultry Yard." A man who has looked to…

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N.s.w. Farmers Betrayed

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 4

The shortage of railway trucks is not only, confined to those dealing in fat stock. Large quantities of chaff were reported to be lying at country…

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A Progressive Farmer

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 10

Particulars are just to hand of Wondalga and Gap students wool clip, the property of Mr. Charles. Purcell. Mr. Purcell prides himself on the general…

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Sunny Ridge Government Farms

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 22 January 1909 · page 6

The Cranky Rock and Tenandra portions of the Sunny Ridge estate, Cowra, recently purchased by the state government, have been…

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