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Farming & the land, 1910

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Experimental Farming Plots

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 3 March 1910 · page 4

ARMIDALE.—The returns from the experimental plots conducted by the Department of Agriculture were naturally affected by the unfavourable weather during harvesting. One…

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Labor's Campaign. Maitland Women Organising. Farmers Support Mr. Charlton. West Maitland

The Star · Thursday 3 March 1910 · page 5

A largely attended meeting of women was held in the School of Arts last night to arrange for the establishment of a women's branch of the Political Labor League in…

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The Apple Harvest at the Bathurst Experiment Farm

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 3 March 1910 · page 7

STUDENTS PICKING APPLES FOR ENPORT. STUDENTS-CARRYING-THE FRUIT TO THE WAGGONS.! GRADING AND PACKING FOR THE LONDON AND CANADIAN MARKETS…

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Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 13

The market got up a bit today. Not much certainly but every little helps, when it is on the right side. Last day the tone showed an improvement to-day values…

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The Butter Market

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 7

PRESCOTT. LIMITED, report:— As far as the [?] trade is concerned the Special District Sa[?] still continues, and local [?] are [?] supplied at 96…

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Butter Grading Condemned

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 2

The conference of co-operative butter factories directors resolved on Tuesday: "That this representative conference, having found by experience…

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Butter-fat Test

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 7

Mr. George Tare, the well-known breeder of milking shorhorns, was to the fore again last week when he secured the champion butter-fat test at…

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The [?] Butter-box Making

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 7

It has come A c[?] native company has been formed for the manufacture of butter-boxes. A meeting in Sydney came to that decision on…

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Wool Sales. Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 9

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 7080 bales, and the sales, including pritate transactions, amounted to 7089 bales, as…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 16

Hill, Clark and Co.—We have received the following cable from our London agents in regard to the wool sales to be opened there on Tuesday next, the 8th inst:…

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Money in Wool

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 4

WELLINGTON.—Some of the farmers in this district have done well out of their wool this year. Mr. J. Blackall, of Spicer's Creek, has a flock of 203 sheep, 97 being [?]wes with…

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Wheat Loadings and Stacks

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 9

The wheat despatches for the week ended February 26 totalled 262,528 bags ([?]13,969 from the south, 107,445 from the west, and 41,114 from the north), as compared with 260,8[?]5 bags the week previous…

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Homebush Stock Market. Yesterday's Sales. Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 9

Upwards of 54,210 sheep, including lambs, were balloted for sale, and about 52,000 were penned, from 190 consignors. Five drafts of 1000 bead were forward; the bulk of the consignments, however, were…

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District Items. a Wheat-growing Centre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 4

GULARGAMBONE.—One of the most important wheat-growing centres in this district is Bringle Creek, situated about halfway between Gulargambone and the…

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Antwerp Wool Sales. London, March 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 7

There was a large attendanc at the Antwerp wool sales which opined yesterday, but the animation of bidders was only moderate, due to their reluctance to pay…

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Homebush Fat Stock Sales. Thursday, March 3 1910. SHEEP

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 11

The market showed no advance on last day. Prime and good sheep were very firm and other sorts pretty well maintained late rated. It was a fairly heavy…

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Sydney Wool & Stock Journal. A Review of the Wool, Fat Stock, and Station Produce Trades. Published Every Friday. the Wool Trade. Thursday, March, 3

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 8

The beginning of the end has been markedly apparent in the character of the offerings submitted in the Sydney wool market during the week ended to-day. Odd…

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Grading of Butter. Reflections on New Zealand System. Strongly Repudiated

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 8

WELLINGTON, Thursday.--Referring to the Sydney butter factories' resolution against grading, Mr. Cuddie, New Zealand Director of Dairy Produce, says the decision casts a serious…

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West Australian Wheat Export. Facilities Wanted at Fremantle

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 7

PERTH, Thursday.--The Fremantle Harbor Trust urges the Government to provide the port with complete wheat shipping appliances like those at Darling Harbor, Sydney, at an…

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The Soil on a Bellingen Farm. Model Dairy Conditions. the North Coast Stand-by

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 4 March 1910 · page 10

BELLINGEN, Saturday.--The history of the Raleigh estate, owned by Matthews and Young, is an object-lesson in dairy farming, and the estate must take rank to-day among the best…

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