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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

8,553 stories in Sydney's papers · page 49 of 250

The Proposed Factory Dairy School

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 4

To the Editor.--That Mr. Meares should advocate an anti-agricultural education policy for the dairy farmer must strike those engaged in the industry with astonishment. In your issue of the 6th inst., Mr. Meares…

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The State and Dairying. Mr. Perry's "Socialistic" Policy

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 11 February 1909 · page 4

NOWRA, Wednesday.--In opening the Nowra Show to-day, Mr. M. F. Morton. M.L.A. said that a matter he had given some thought to was the taking over of the Berry Central as a…

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Cattle and Sheep Doc Club

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 15

At the annual meeting in Sydney on Monday the following office-bearers were elected for the current year:—President, Mr.W. Crane;…

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Choice Pastoral Blocks

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 6

Messrs. Winchcombe, Carson and Co., Ltd., announce in our business columns that they will offer on March l9, at the Royal Exchange, Sydney…

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Thursday—sheep

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 12

There wore 17,004 (including lambs) balloted for from 131 consignors. Eleven lots ranged from 1,000 to 1,279, the remainder being made up mostly…

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Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 15

The catalogue submitted at our sale on Wednesday was again very representative and attractive, comprising many clips of good quality and condition, principally…

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Moisture in Butter

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 11

There is an impression in London that New Zealand and Australian butter contains more moisture than that which characterised it when the…

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Victorian Butter Export

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 4

MELBOURNE.—Figures for the butter season now about to close show that compared with the years immediately preceding this there has been a great reduction in the…

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Splendid Pastoral Blocks for Sale

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 18

Our business columns contain an announcement [?] the sale by auction of a number of fine pastors blocks on the Barwon and Bogan Rivers, in the wes tern districts of New South Wales. The various…

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The Export of Butter

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 11

Writing on the subject of butter ex-portation, Messrs. Prescott, Limited, of Sussex-street, quote the following paragraph from their London…

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The Aberdeen — Angus Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 8

From the secretary of the Aberdeen-Angus — Society presumably of Scotland comes a reprint from the "Banff-shire Journal" telling of the…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 4

The Railway Commissioners anticipate that the yield of this year's harvest will be between 28,000,000 and 30,000,000 bushels. The record for the state was in 1903-4, when…

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The Wheat Market

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 13

There has been very great excitement in wheat this week. The London sales of Australian wheat have been a record for this time of the…

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Station Stacked Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 13

Return furnished by the railway de-partment, of wheat stacked at stations on all lines during week ended the 6th February, 1909:-Stockinbingal 15,847…

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Pastoral and Agricultural Societies. the Pastoral and Agricultural Societies' Union of N.S.W.

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 3

President R. T. KEYS (Muswellbrook), Vice-Presidents: F.D. BADGERY (arGYLE), F. OAKDEN (Bogan), H. ROURKE (Hunter), J. PERRY (Liverpool Plains), H. SUTTOR (Macquarie), J.C. RYRIE(Monary), W.J. CARTWRIGHT (Murrumbidgee), F.W.A. DOWNES, M.L.A. (Nepean), J.H. READ(New England), R. DAVIDSON, M.L.A.(North Coast), A.W…

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America's Wool Clip

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 10

The annual wool review of the Ameri-can National Association of Wool Manufacturers places the number of sheep fit for shearing in the United States…

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Wool. Sydney Sales

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 13

All good wools and carefully prepared parcels sold well up to last week's rates, competition being keen. Very faulty and skirty lines displayed…

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Early Ploughing for Wheat

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 8

Unploughed land intended for next season's wheat crops (says Mr. G. L. Sutton in the "Agricultural Gazette") should be broken without delay. In…

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Forcing the Wool Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 9

In order to enable them to hasten their departure, woolbuyers are bringing pressure to bear upon the selling brokers to have the sales curtailed to March 3. As it is estimated that…

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Wool Sales. Strong Market

The Australian Star · Friday 12 February 1909 · page 7

The Sydney wool sales were continued this afternoon at the Royal Exchange, Bridge-street. Buyers attended in considerable numbers. The market opened…

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