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Farming & the land, 1910

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Record Wheat Season

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 12

The South Australian Government has, to far this season, handled the heaviest wheat tonnage for any season. The work is being successfully coped with…

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Bellingen Butter Factory. New Machinery Installed. BELLINGEN, Saturday Night

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 4

New machinery was Installed in the Upper Ballinger Co-Operative Company's factory yesterday. The Installation comprised 42-horse-power suction gas engine and a…

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A Plague of Baboons. They Ate the Crops in Nigeria So Fast That Natives Gave Up Farming

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 9

In many parts of Nigeria, and especially among the hill regions of the northern provinces, baboons are one of the greatest, plagues to the farmer, and a source of…

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London Wool Sales. London, Friday, 6.50 p.m

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 1

There was a good sale again at the wool auctions today Crossbreds were exceedingly firm, and merinos were unchanged. The prices realised, yesterday for the…

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The Dreadnought Farms Fund

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 5

Having £40,000, the controllers of the Dreadnought Fund are going to bring out and train 150 British lads per annum. One is reminded of the steam hammer and the…

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Keep the Farm Lands Cheap. and Smooth the Path of the Settler. Enabling Him to Produce to Full Capacity—and at the Earliest

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 11

Readers of the "Sunday Times" are well aware of our constant advocacy of closer settlement on rational lines; they will, therefore, be specially interested in the…

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Slaughtered on a Lonely Farm. Murdered by Two Young Cowherds—a Crime That Has Shocked France. Paris, December 14

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 20

A revolting crime, planned and executed by youths of precocious criminal inclinations, is reported from Burgundy. At Jully, a hamlet in the province, two Swiss…

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Farm and Garden

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 14

A return recently presented to the New Zealand Parliament showed that the profit made by the Advances to Settlers' Department in ten years was £954,179. Out…

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Victorian Farm Notes. Closer Settlement in Victoria

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 14

An important step is about to be taken by the State Government of Victoria in connection with the closer settlement movement which has been before the…

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Cement on the Farm

Sunday Times · Sunday 23 January 1910 · page 14

Cement is now the coming material for a material a continually- increasing number of farm uses (says the "Leader"), To-day cement can be successfully used on the farm in…

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Wheat and Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 14

Fortunately the floods do not very seriously affect the carriage of wheat and wool on the railways. During the week ended on Saturday 267,806 bags of wheat were brought in. This…

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Wool, Wheat, and Flour Arrivals

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 9

At Darling Harbour on staurday, 1513 bales of wool. 58 tons of flour, and 3310 tons of wheat were manifested to arrive…

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Pastoral Products

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 19

The amount of wool manifested to arrive at Sydney by rail on Saturday was 1512 bales…

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The Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 9

Prescott, Limited, reported on Saturday:- Thanks to the "concentration of sales" policy adopted by the co-operative movement, the price still remains at 95/ per cwt., whereas…

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Wheat Afloat

Evening News · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 6

LONDON, Sunday Evening.—The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom Is estimated at 2,675,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 765.000 quarters. The shipments of American wheat…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 5

Sydney wool auctions were continued this afternoon &t the Royal Exchange Sale Rooms, Bridge-street, when two catalogues, covering little over 10,000 bales, were offered…

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Wheat Shipments. Perth (W.a.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 9

The barquentine Princess left Fremantle last night for Algoa Bay, South Africa, with the secons shipment of this season's wheat, consisting of 1761 tons…

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The Wool Sales. London, Jan. 21

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 7

At the wool auctions this afternoon there was a good sale. Crossbrods were exceedingly firm, and merinos were unchanged…

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Big Wool Cargo by the Griefswald

Evening News · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 5

The N.D.L. Company's cargo steamer Grieis wald will leave Sydney tomorrow for Bremen, via ports. Her cargo consists of 15,000 bales wool, 10,650 sacks copra, 700 tons loose and 300…

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Wheat Shipments. London, Sunday, 2 p.m

The Star · Monday 24 January 1910 · page 6

The quantity of wheat afloat for the united Kingdom amounts to 2,675,000 quarters, and the shipments afloat for the Continent to 765,000 quarters…

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