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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1910

7,842 stories in Sydney's papers · page 73 of 250

Agricultural and Pastoral. the State of the Country

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 6

Although there is plenty of feed in pretty well all parts of the State, and the fodder crops are looking well; the pastures in many districts are commencing to wear a brownish…

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Butter Grading. Manufacturers' Conference. Commerce Act Criticised

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 11

The conference of butter factory delegates which began on Monday in the Employers Federation rooms, continued there yesterday. Mr. W. R. Halter (chairman of the North…

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State's Sheep. Conflcting Official Returns. an Intoleradle Anomaly

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 10

The estimate prepared by the Stock Department of the number of sheep in the State on January 1 last gives the total at 43,138,777, an increase on last year's figures, issued by…

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Pastoral Raising Stud Herds. the Work Op Beginners. Chance Offered in Australia

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 8

Encouraged by the recent success at the sheep shows in Australia, there is a tendency on the part of a great number of sheep farmers in a small way to build up a stud flock,…

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Farming Maize Culture. Possibilities of the Crop

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 11

Corn grows well in most of the coastal areas of this State in normal seasons. In favorable ones it grows luxuriously. In no part of the world is as large a quantity of…

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Bluffing the Squatters. Incompetent Wool Classers Preventing Bogus References

Evening News · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 5

"Given a good season, with its accompanying heavy clip, the difference between the proper conduct of wool classing and its improper conduct means a difference of thousands of pounds…

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Cattle Saleyards. Selling Agents Dissatisfied Want a Royal Commission. Battoir Area Site Advocated

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 12

Mr Gunn, M.L.C, president of the pastoralists' Association, Mr. Henley, M.L.A., Mr. T. I. Campbell, secretary of the Farmers and Settlers' Association, and Messrs. G. Maiden…

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On the Land. With Especial Reference to the Wheat-Carrying Problem

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 34

THE greatest problem which our legislators are called upon to solve is that which…

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Notes and Anticipations THE V.R.C. Autumn Meeting. Mala and Orline—A Good Double for the Bookmakers. Beverage the Crack Two-year-old. Alawa and Prince Foote in Form—A.J.C. Prize money—The Warwick Farm Meeting—Flavigny and Newport—The Melbourne Yearling Sales. Selections for Flem1ngton and Rosehill. V.R.C. Antumn Meeting

Referee · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 1

TT Flemington on Saturday last Malster received another great advertisement—the Newmarket Handicap, Sires' Produce Stakes,…

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Meetings of Farmers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 6

COONAMBLE.—The annual general meeting of the members of the Farmers and Settlers' association was held on Saturday afternoon the president (Mr. J. A. Berryman) being in…

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Experimental Farmlng

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 6

DAPTO.—Some months ago Mr. J. Barrett, of West Dapto, through Inspector Makin, of the Agricultural Department, secured a few seeds of a now kind of sorghum from the…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 6

DAPTO.—An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders and suppliers to the Dapto Cooperative Dairy Company was held on Monday night to consider the question…

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The Potato Crop

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 6

MILLTHORPE.—The digging of the early potato crops has commenced in this district, and so far the yields are turning out better than was expected. During the past week…

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New Zealand's Crops. Official Estimates Amended. Wellington, Feb. 25

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 6

The official estimates of the Dominion's cereal harvest, in a "Gazette" issued yesterday, were amenced. Estimates are given that show that the objections raised to the…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Reactionary Forces. Anti-graders Active

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 6

The very live question of the price of butter boxes was characteristically made an occasion for the reiteration of threadworn arguments against the grading of butter by the…

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The Dreadnought Farms. to the Editor

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 7

Sir,--There have been insidious attempts to knock the Dreadnought farm scheme on the head; why, I cannot understand. Neither your leader nor long statement of the supposed facts shows any feasible reason…

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The Truck Shortage. a Farmer's Lament

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 12

The inability of the Railway Commissioners to cope with the wheat harvest this year, which has been aggravated by the precipitation of a far-reaching coal strike just at the critical…

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The Soil Government Grading. Condemned by Dairymen. "No Educational Value." "Detrimental to the Industry."

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 12

The conference of co-operative butter factory directors was continued yesterday morning at Falmouth-chambers. Mr. W. R. Baker (chairman of the North Coast Co-operative Company)…

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Crop Competitions

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 11

The recent crop competitions carried out in Victoria, under regulations issued by the Department of Agriculture, and which govern tho allotment of the Government subsidy to…

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Maize Crops at Bathurst

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 2 March 1910 · page 11

The dry weather of last month has made farmers apprehensive in regard to their maize crops (writes our Bathurst correspondent). In many parts of the district record crops had…

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