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Farming & the land, 1910

7,842 stories in Sydney's papers · page 47 of 250

London Wool Sales

Evening News · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 5

Pitt, Son, and Badgery cable:—Colonial wool auctions closed to-day. No change in the market as compared with opening rates. Harrison, Jones, and Devlin cable:—Sales have…

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Butter Market in the United Kingdom

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 15

Dalgety and Company Limited, report the receipt of a cable f[?]m their London offce dated the 3rd instant, advising that the official quotation for Danish butter was raised 2/3 per cwt in Copenhagen last…

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Record Output of Wool

Evening News · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 8

For the season just closed 5261 tales of woe were despatched from Hay Railway Station, and 9109 from Permewan Wright's Hay Wharf by river, making a total of 14,370 bales, or 2068…

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Colony with Wheat Sails To-day

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 14

At 9 o'clock this morning the British four-masted barque Colory will be towed to sea on her way to Famouth for orders. She has a cargo of 31,355 bags of wheat, shipped through Nelson and Robertson…

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Inveramsay with Wheat Ready for Sea

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 14

The British barque Inversamsay has completed loading a cargo of 28,633 bags of wheat on behalf of J. Darling and Son for the United Kingdom and is ready to sail for Famouth, where orders regarding the destination…

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The Wool Sales. London, Feb. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 13

At the wool sales this afternoon bidding was spirited with good general competition, and prices were very firm. Feb. 4…

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The Wool Teade. Strong Demand at Hardening Rates

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 9

Full catalogues attractive offerings, animated and wide competition with larfce clear ances it very firm values, tending in sellers favour, for all but faulty descriptions have…

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Wheat and Flour Ring An Explosion—-Important Officer Resigns. "Newsletter" Exposure Telling On the Rings

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 4

The exposure in these columns of the doings of the wheat and flour ring has swiftly led to commotion, and it is evident that a dread exists…

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Penrith and Its Surroundings. Its Representative Men,—its Representative Orchardists and Farmers,—its Industries and Trades,—and Its Picturesque Spots. Feed Charles Jones and His Ventures

Nepean Times · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 3

In adverting to the failure or success in life of those who, at some time or other had come to the surface and been brought into contact with their prominent fellow…

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Aeronauts' Adventure. Car Strikes a Farmhouse Roof, Carrying Part of It Away

The World's News · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 31

"Tschudi." one of the Berlin Aero Club's largest balloons, bad an exciting sail last month. Two club members and a lady ascended at…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 9

CORAMBA.—Theannual meeting of the Orara Co-operative Dairy Company, Ltd., was held on Wednesday. The report for the last half-year was very satisfactory. The…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Two Insect Pests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 9

The majority of the innumerable subjects in the insect world appear to be neither helpful nor harmful, but a comparatively few spocies from various causes have come to be regarded…

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Western Farmers' and Settlers Wingadee Improvement Leases. Parliamentary Representation

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 5 February 1910 · page 15

COONAMBLE, Friday.--The annual meeting of the Western District Council of the Farmers and Settlers' Association was held in Coonamble this week…

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McLEOD'S Wet-wool Determinator

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 February 1910 · page 19

This is the invention of Mr. A. McLeod,a Victorian, prompted by the demand long-existent for a suitable appliance for speedily ascertaining the amount of the moisture in wool. The determinator is a steam, process, and is operated by having the moisture converted into steam, condensed, and registered in the bottom of a…

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General Cables. London Markets. Wool Sales

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 February 1910 · page 7

LONDON, Friday Afternoon. —The wool sales closed to-day, firm and at top prices. PRICE OF SILVER…

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£400 for Six Months' Farm Work

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 February 1910 · page 12

Last year a young man arrived in the Trundle district without any plant or capital, and went share farming. The owner of the land found everything-horses, machinery, seed, and feed, and…

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Farm and Garden

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 February 1910 · page 14

For the month of December the Bellinger Central (Raleigh) Co-operative Dairy Company treated 5O.3331b of cream, from which 24.1981b of butter was…

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Victorian Farm Notes. a Valuable Fertiliser

Sunday Times · Sunday 6 February 1910 · page 14

It is not generally known to the agricultural community, or even to trained gardeners, that malt combings, being a refuse product from the malt house, and…

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Wool and Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 7 February 1910 · page 6

Notwithstanding the inconvenience caused by the coal trade, the quantity of wool and wheat forward by rail for the current season to date are greatly in excess of those similarly bandied…

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The Wheat Harvest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 7 February 1910 · page 4

According to information recently supplied by farmers, it is estimated by the Government Statistician that 25,600,000 bushels of wheat will be harvested from 1,817,286 acres,…

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