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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1909

8,553 stories in Sydney's papers · page 66 of 250

In the Market Place Trade in Sussex-street. Wheat and Flour Very Firm

The Australian Star · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 6

The wheat market opened very firm this morning. Buyers were anxious to do business, but refused to pay over 4s 2 12d for choice milling-grain. Sellers, however, would…

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Official Organ! "The Farmer and Settler." Information and Help

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 2

Tyalgum.—Be sure to send the "Farmer and Settler" word what success you have in forming a branch of the association at Tyalgum. I think it will be the first branch on the…

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Crops and Pastures

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 10

YOU ARE CORDIALLY INVITED to ask for any information required in this department. Write to "The Farmer and Settler" concerning anything you have to sell or wish to buy, 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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Farmers Must Combine

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 2

Mr. W. Ager, Grafton, writes:—Organisation spells strength and success. If we leave all the organisation to the other fellow, all that we can expect is…

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Official Organ! "The Farmer and Settler." Information and Help. a Neighbor's Negligence

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 5

Yass is in trouble with a neighbor with regard to a rabbit-proof fence. It appears that in n recent flood a portion of the fence, in which both are interested, adjacent to a…

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Shire Subscriptions to "Farmer and Settler."

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 4

Several shires have authorised the subscription to the "Farmer and tier" for the shire officers. At last meeting of Merriwa council it was…

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Farm Produce. Topics of the Street

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 13

The feature of this week's grain market has been the large supply of local maize. Receipts from the Clarence have been particularly good, and…

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Farmers at Law

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 4

At Narrabri district court, George Gregory, sen., a farmer at Deep Creek, sued Alexander Bell, a farmer of the same locality, for £50 for an alleged…

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Disappointed Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 8

Two Quirindi farmers, who went over to Queensland in search of land, have returned disappointed. They say it is just as hard to get as here…

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Good Dairying Country

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 8

A correspondent writes:—The Can[?]windra district, situated on the Belu[?]ula River, and within 240 miles of Sydney, is one which can claim…

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The Railways and the Farmers

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 9

Mr. A. J. Cooper, of the Sydney fruit exchange, writes complaining that he was charged 3/- freight on a parcel of fruit pulp to Quirindi, the…

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Farming Inventions

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 8

Messrs. Griffith and Hassell, patent attorneys, Melbourne and Sydney, advise : -The following applications for…

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Awstralian Dry Farming. a New System of Soil Culture. (Road before the recent Science Congress at, Brisbane.) INTRODUCTION

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 4

Australian agriculture has yet to by Written. Methods evolved under European and American conditions are not applicable without, in many instances,…

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Dairy Hand

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 7

A young fellow, who can milk and work and has had good experience, wants a billet on a dairy farm. He is able, hornest. temperate' and industrious…

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The Diary Dairy Produce Markets

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 7

Best butter was reduced to 96s in the Sydney market on Monday, at which price it has since held fairly firm. Not much business is doing…

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The Profits of Dairying

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 7

There's no country In the world that offers fairer Inducements to the man who would seek fortune in the dairy industry than does New South Wales…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Training Factory Managers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 4

It is very evident that the attempt to work up successful opposition to Mr. Perry's proposal to provide training for butter factory managers is falling flat, and that the dairy farmers…

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Land Problem. Labour Council Comments. Sunny Ridge Farms. an Official Reply

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 8

We have been supplied with the following official statement:— On the 19th instant an article appeared in the "Sydney Morning Herald" under the…

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The Soil Settlement and Production. Cumberland Orchards. Condition of Citrus and Passion Crops. the Neglected Loquat

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 February 1909 · page 5

The rain of the past few weeks has had the effect of causing the citrus trees, which arc already carrying at least two distinct crops of fruit, to burst out again in bloom. This crop,…

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Butter Factory Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 12

BEGA, Friday. -- The seventh half-yearly meeting of the Bega Co-operative Creamery Company was hold in the School of Arts. The secretary read the report and balance-sheet…

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