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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

7,842 stories in Sydney's papers · page 62 of 250

Butter Market in the United Kingdom

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 17

Dalgety's London cable, dated yesterday, advised a drop of 2/3 in the Copenhagen official quotation for Danish butter, and that for prime quality the following prices ruled…

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Meat, Wheat, and Other Trusts

The Newsletter: an Australian Paper for Australian People · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 9

Our articles exposing tho Sydney Meat Combine, the Now South Wales Wheat flour Ring, and Conl Vend &v., are this week…

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The Wool Trade. Nearing the Season's Close

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 9

Full catalogues have been submitted and good clearances have been efforted in the Sydney market during the week, commencing on Monday and closing on Thursday last. The…

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A Record Wheat Cargo- 63,971 Bags Under Hatches

The Star · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 5

The fine German 4-masted barque Alsterberg. now the largest sailing vessel visiting Port Jackson, and perhaps. the largest of her rig afloat, was towed from Darling…

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Fined for Growing Wheat. Conditions of Special Leases. Lands Department in Reply

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 9

A telegram from Parkes published in the "Herald" on 9th inst. stated that two Tichborne farmers had been fined by the local land board for growing wheat on special…

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Penrith and Its Surroundings. Its Representative Men,—its Representative Orchardists and Farmers,—its Industries and Trades,—and, Its Picturesque Spots. William Shannon Walker

Nepean Times · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 7

It is not many decades, in fact, only a little over one, that the youths of Australia awoke to the fact that life held soma object more laudable, more…

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The Price of Milk. Dapto Farmers Agree

Evening News · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 8

WOLLONGONG, Saturday.—A meeting of members of the South Coast Milk Suppliers' Association was held at Dapto last night, to consider the action of Camden suppliers Of the…

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Federal Fight in the Gwydir Mr. Patten Opens His Campaign. the Farmers' Candidate

Evening News · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 15

The Liberal campaign for the Gwydir Federal electorate (writes our Moree correspondent) was opened this week, when Mr. Robert Patten. M.L.C., president of the F. and S…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Where Farmers Are Made

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 9

The Hawkesbury Agricultural College is situated about a mile west of the town of [?]mond. Just now the whole country is a [?]udy in variant green, as in springtime…

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The Soil. General Notes. Weather and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 19 February 1910 · page 16

Very little change has come o'er the scone from a Climatic point of view since last report. The season is proving one of the best for many year all round, and more recent reports…

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Wool and Wheat for Europe

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 3

The week which ended yesterday was a very [?] one in connection with the export trade of New South Wales. The steamer Poona, which left Sydney early yesterday morning, took 11,710 bales of wool and 10,530…

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Wheat Shipments. London, Saturday, 6.30 a.m

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 1

The following sales of wheat have been reported: -- Ex French bqe Ville de Dijon at 39s 3d; ex bqe Verenger at 39s per quarter. Eleven hundred quarters of South…

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Back to the Land. Dairy Farming for Women

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 10

Ancient custom favors women in every department of agriculture, and as far back as the Old Testament times we read of women, whose "price is above riches,"…

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Victorian Farm Notes. Queensland Produce in Melbourne

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 14

The Queensland Court at the Australian Natives' Association's Exhibition, Melbourne, is in an agricultural sense, one of the most interesting departments…

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Selecting a Bull for the Dairy Herd

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 14

The old saying that "the bull is halt the herd" is not the whole truth. He is and he is not, according to the strength with which he transmits the qualities of…

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Farm and Garden

Sunday Times · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 14

A remarkable crop of apricots has been harvested by Mr. E. Pltt, of the Croscent, Renmark (Vic.). This 8-acre block of apricots has always been noted for its…

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Farmer's Narrow Escape. Rescued from the Water

The Sunday Sun · Sunday 20 February 1910 · page 1

Adolph Paul, aged 56, a farmer who had been residing in Clarence-street, city, had a narrow escape from drowning last night. He had intended to leave for Coff's Harbor, in…

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Carriage of Wheat and Wool

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 21 February 1910 · page 6

The figures regarding the conveyance of wheat and wool continue to be encouraging. They emphasise, so far as the wheat is concerned, the good season that has been experienced as…

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Wheat Classification

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 21 February 1910 · page 13

Now that this State is producing; commercial quantities of "strong" wheats, as Comeback, Jonathan, and Bobs, it seems an opportune time for the trade to give this class a…

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Wheat Afloat

Evening News · Monday 21 February 1910 · page 4

LONDON, Sunday Evening.—The wheat afloat for the United Kingdom is estimated at 3,395,000 quarters, and for the Continent at 1,700,000 Quarters. The shipments of American wheat…

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