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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

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Notes and Anticipations Tatteresall's Meeting. Maricle, an outsider, With the Cup—-Metograph's Carrington. Some [?] Two-year-olds—-Desert Rose Again Beaten—-Weight Stops [?]—-Gidyea's Bad Luck—-The Perth Cup—-New Zealand Notes. Selections for Warwick Farm. Tattersall's Meeting

Referee · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 1

THE weather [?] all that could be desired on [?] days a Tattersall's fixture [?] Randwick, and on Saturday there was a very…

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Turf Tips and Comments Warwick Farm Races. Saturday, January 8. Liverpool Mile

Referee · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 5

LADY RUENALF .. .. .. .. 1 Ambassador .. .. .. .. 2 Safrano .. .. .. .. .. .. 3 FARM STAKES…

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Dairying Progress. New South Wales' Prospects

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 13

In an interview, Mr. F. Hibberd, manager of the Wingham and Upper Manning District Cooperative Butter and Bacon Company, Ltd., gave interesting information regarding the…

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Australian Short Stories Keziah of the Hill Farm

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 44

Keziah Cummings stood in her fowl-yard, and called to the feathered tribe, at the same time throwing around her handsful of the yellow, grain—making a fitting study for the…

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Farming the New Year. a Review and a Forecast

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 11

Te new year is generally a busy time for cereal-growers. Some of them have, of course, finished taking off their crops in the early districts. Those holding large areas of…

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Farm Products. Sydney Auction Sales

The Star · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 6

Twenty-four truckloads of produce were submitted by auction at the Sydney Railway Station yards to-day. The usual buyers were in attendance, and competition was…

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The Soil Mulching. Methods and Advantages. on Farm, Orchard, and Garden

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 14

In various forms mulching is adopted to a fair extent in tills State, but probably the practice is not followed one-hundredth part as much, as it could be with advantage Mulching is…

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The Brookong Resumption. Twenty Farms Available

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 14

The closer settlement purchase farms comprising the part of the Brookong estate resumed by the Government, will be available on the 31st inst. Application received by the Crown…

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Cement on the Farm

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 8

Time was--and not so very long ago eitehr--when the mortar used for cementing bricks together--the courses being actually thicker than the bricks themselves--in the old Roman…

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Dairying in China

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 14

In China the cow has been bred more as a work animal than for milking purposes (says an American journal). Beyond feeding her calf, she has almost lost all claim to being a dairy…

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Success in Dairying

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 January 1910 · page 13

At the present time a good deal of attention is being called to the business of dairying. There seems in some cases to be a sort of charm surrounding the business and there are…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. the Wheat Crop. More About Inverell. Xvii

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

As stated in these columns yesterday, the average wheat yield about the Inverell district will be more than equal to any part of the State, running about 16 bushels. This is…

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Wheat Standard

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 6

In view of the bounteous wheat harvest, the Minister for Agriculture is considering the manner in which f.a.q. (fair average quality) standard, upon which wheat dealings are based, is…

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Wheat Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 4

The Commonwealth wheat fleet number 112 vessles, representing an export of 15,366,400 bushels, The latest havest estimates point to a…

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Stealing Butter Brands. Margarine As Australian Butter. London, Jan. 5

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 7

Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, has discovered that empty butter boxes, branded with Australian marks, are collected in London and…

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Australian Butter Boxes. Refilled with Margarine. Sold As "Australian Butter."

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Wednesday.-- Mr. T. A. Coghlan, Agent-General for New South Wales, has discovered that empty butter-boxes bearing the brands of Australian factories…

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The Wool Position

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 6

The opening wool auctions of the year will be held in Brisbane about the end of this week, and in Sydney and Melbourne early next week. At present there appears…

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First Wheat Ship Despatched

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 8

The first wheat ship of the season—the Italian barque Letizia—was yesterday despatched from Sydney by Messrs. James Bell and Co., with 26,448 bags of wheat for falmouth…

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Dealing with Wheat Harvest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 5

MELBOURNE.—The work of trucking wheat was commenced on December 16, and up to the 4th inst 767,660 bags of wheat had been handled by the Railway Department, an…

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Victoria's Wheat Yield. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 6 January 1910 · page 6

The "Australasian" estimate of the Victorian wheat crop shows a total yield of 27,589,800 bushels. The present crop promises to be the second largest on record, the largest being…

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