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Farming & the land, 1909

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London Butter Market

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 11
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Mr. M. G. H. Jefferson, representing Ellis, Kislingbury, and Co., butter salesmen, London, advises the receipt of cabled information yesterday regarding the London butter market…

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Wool and Timber

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 15

The N.D.L. cargo steamer Gottingen will be despatched by Messrs. Lohmann and Co. from Sydney on Monday for Bremen via ports. Her cargo consists of 600,000ft…

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Melbourne Wool Sales. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 15

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company report:—This afternoon the sales were resumed. We submitted a catalogue of some 1650 bales. In this was included a good deal of re-offered wools, but a…

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The Wool Trade. Great Consumptive Demand

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 9

Again another exceedingly satisfactory week's business has been conducted in the Sydney wool market. The nearer the season approaches a close the more hungry buyers…

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London Market Cables. London, Feb. 26. WHEAT

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 15

The wheat markets are very strong, though with a slight pause in activity. There is a prospect of an early diminution in shipments, causing wheat well ahead to command a…

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Wool Cargoes. Shipping Companies' Heavy Losse the Result of Rate-cutting

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 15

Big losses are being suffered by shipping companies on wool cargoes for home this season. The cause is the out in freights. A kind of working agreement or understanding…

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The WAY of the WORLD. Crime, Love, and Unusual Occurrences Sensational, True Stones and Incidents from the Life of the Hour After the Cattle Rustlers

The Arrow · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 7

"B0B" MELDRUM. a typical gunfighter of frontier days, has been given the job of cleaning out the cattle rustlers who have been making life miserable for…

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Woman's Letter the Farmer and Is Sons

Nepean Times · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 7

The news to hand that a farmer in the Temora district, with the aid of his two sons and one laborer, made a profit of £600 out of wheat, and…

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America's Encouragement of Agriculture Lecture on Scientific Farming in a Railway-carriage

The World's News · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 21

Without some scientific knowledge the farmer of to-day cannot expect to succeed. America, realising this, is teaching those engaged in agricultural pursuits how they should follow their…

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Farmers in Conclave. Unanderra

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 14

About 30 suppliers and members of the local branch of the Milk Suppliers' Association met in the Council-chambers last night. The president, Mr. Lawrence Carr, was in the chair…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. "The Best Fodder."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 9

To-day, when the virtues of lucerne are being brought under the notice of the man on the land, and its propagation advocated so strongly, it is interesting to note how…

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Farm Labourers' Wages

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 9

SINGLETON.—Mr. John Perry, one of the vice-presidents of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, is touring this district for the purpose of forming branches of the…

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Farm Produce

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 8

There were two sections—farm produce and vegetables and melons. In neither of these sections was there the competition one might expect to find in…

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The House in Macquarie Street. Its Past Glory and Present Gloom. NO. 38-- Silent Councillors--sir Julian Salomons and the Dean Case-- John Brown Watt--high Commercial. Capacity -- George Henry Cox--"record Councillor"--his Wealth in Wool

The Australian Star · Saturday 27 February 1909 · page 4

Fluency has never been a characteristic of the Upper Chamber. Its members have never been under an obligation 'to talk to their constituents" and flood "Hansard" with…

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Wool and Wheat

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 4

This season's yield of wheat has been such that a big increase over last season is anticipated. For the week ended yesterday 101,564 bags were received at the…

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Selecting Seed Wheat

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 2

Some of the best varieties of seed wheat have been propagated from the dibbled contents of choice cars selected from the crop before harvest, and as an aid to the…

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Blue Couch Grass and Mortality Among Cattle

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 2

With reference to the cattle mortality at Muswellbrook and other parts of the district about 12 months ago, it will doubtless interest our readers to learn…

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Farm and Garden

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 2

The difference between a poor cow and a good one in a dairy is the difference between success and failure. A poor cow is estimated by the pounds of flesh she…

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Victorian Farm Notes. the Weather

Sunday Times · Sunday 28 February 1909 · page 2

A fine rain set in in Melbourne and district on February 24, and reports from the country districts indicate that the rainfall has been general. Whether the…

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