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Farming & the land, 1910

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Ice on the Dairy Farm

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 February 1910 · page 14

There was a time when ice on the part of the average dairy farmer was an impracticable proposition, and while it cannot oven now be procurable in all cases,…

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The Protein in Fodder Crops

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 February 1910 · page 14

Forage crops differ not only in yield or the number of tons of fodder produced per acre, but also in feeding quality or the quantities of valuable nutrients they…

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Farm and Garden

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 February 1910 · page 14

In 1908 Argentina supplied Great Britain with £13,112,215 worth of wheat, or about 34.2 per cent, of the total importation…

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Soy Beans in Dairying

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 February 1910 · page 14

An article in the "Economist" states that the soy bean is one of the staple crops of Manchuria, and great quantities of the beans are exported to Great Britain…

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Notes. Warwick Farm Races

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 February 1910 · page 8

Yesterday's meeting at Warwick Farm attracted an excellent attendance, and, thanks to the success of Newport in the Warwick Handicap, the "books' did not fare badly. There was a fair…

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Work in Return for Relief. Successful Experiment on Labor Farm

Sunday Times · Sunday 27 February 1910 · page 5

There exists in the Randwick district a piece of land 267 acres in extent, known as the Bunnerong Farm, on which men unsuccessful in their search for general…

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Wool and Wheat Returns

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 6

There were 4001 bales of wool carried by the railways last week. This gave an increase of 2111. During the season 764,203 bales were carried, and the increase came to 39,008. In…

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Butter Factories

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 10

WAGGA, Saturday.--At a meeting of dairymen representative of the industry in the district, it was resolved to form a co-operative dairy company, with £5000 capital, in £1 shares…

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The World's Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 9

Beerbohm, commenting on the wheat position as it appeared on January 14, remarked:— "After the large transactions of the previous week it is not very surprising to find that the…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 5

Two catalogues, covering 9202 bales, were offered on the Sydney market this afternoon, the market showing all the best traits or the season, bidding being brisk and animated at late rates…

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Pinmore to Load Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 8

It is understood that the four-masted barque Pinmore, from Iquique, which has been waiting off the Heads for the past two or three days for orders, has been instructed to enter the port, and will load wheat here…

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Another Wheat Ship Sails

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 8

Yesterday morning the British four-masted barque Dowan Hill was towed to sea on her way to Queenstown, where further orders will be awaiting her. She is laden with wheat shipped through Nelson and…

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Wool by the Bremen

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 8

Included in the cargo of the G.M.S. Bremen, which left Sydney for Bremmen, via ports, on Saturday afternoon, were 5015 bales of wool, consigned by various shippers…

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Adelaide Wheat Market. Adelaide

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 9

The wheat market is still without animation, and buying continues on the basis of 4/ for farmers' lots. Parcels are not inquired for…

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Record Wheat Cargo. Fremantle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 9

Messrs Dalgety and Co., Fremantle report having loaded the Armadale with a full cargo of wheat for Europe, totalling 7000 tons.This is a record shipment from Western Australia…

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Blacks Spearing Cattle. a White Man's Pluck

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 8

PERTH, Saturday.--With respect to the alleged native insurrection at Mount Hart Station in the Leopold Ranges as sensationally telegraphed by Mr. Brown, manager, to his…

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Wool and Flour by the Telamon

The Star · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 6

The steamer Telamon will leave Sydney to-morrow night for London, Liverpool, and, Glasgow, from the agency of Messrs Gilchrist Watt and Sanderson Cargo by the vessel includes 3000 bales wool 1000 bags four…

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Not "Climate Classers." Wool Sorters in the West

Evening News · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 5

During the hearing in the Sydney Industrial Court this morning of an application for a woolclassers' wages board, a request was made for exemption from the board's operations of…

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Travelling Wages Boards. Judge Keeps Expenses Down the Wool-classing Business

Evening News · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 4

The question of the expense entailed by member of a wages board travelling about the country arose this morning in the Industrial Court during the hearing of an application for…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 February 1910 · page 4

ALSTONVTLLE.—At the half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the local outter factory it was stated that during the period 406 tons of butter had been turned out, being 31…

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