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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1911

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Farm and Garden

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 January 1911 · page 16

The Wairarapa "Daily News" (N.Z.) writes :—"We reported a splendid crop of oats over 7ft high out at Mr. Court's Waihakeke farm a day or two back. News…

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Farm Co-partnership. Profit-sharing Offer to Employees

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 January 1911 · page 12

The "Daily Mail," London, prints the following :— "At a harvest home dinner at Dunmow, Essex, Mr. William Hasler, head of the…

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Railways and Farmers. Transit Facilities for Producers

Sunday Times · Sunday 1 January 1911 · page 12

Mr. McGowen, the State Premier, has been supplied by the Railway Commissioners with an interesting report setting forth the facilities provided by the…

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Commercial. Commonwealth Butter Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 9

Prescolt, Limited, report:- The price of choicest butter was reduced to 90/ en Wednesday, but outside local business there has not been much sale for large parcels. The quality…

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Kimberley's Future. Sheep-raising Being Favoured. Perth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 8

M. A. Despesses, a Commissioner of Tropical Agriculture, reporting on the possibilities of the north-west, says Kimberley's natural conditions are much the same as in the…

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Eight-storey Wool Store. Three Acres of Floor Space

The Sun · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 8

Another spacious wool store is to be added to the numerous mammoth buildings already erected in Sydney for the purpose of storing fleece. The building which will have…

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Unsold Wool. 162,521, 000Lb. in the United States. New York

The Sun · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 1

The annual review in the Boston "Commercial Review" places the amount of unsold wool in the United States at 162,521,0001b., against 97,322,5001b. at the corresponding time…

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The North Coast. Our Prremier Butter Factory Summer Output 200 Tons Weekly. Some Interesting Particulars. (By Our Special Reporter.) Xx

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 5

There is perhaps no part of the world where the system of co-operation amongst farmers for the purpose of manufacturing their products has met with such success as in the…

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Crop Competitions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 5

COWRA.—The judging for the growing crop competition, under the auspices of the Cowra P. A. and H. Association, has just been completed by Mr. Ditzell, wheat experimentalist…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 5

INVERELL.—Mr. A. T. Hapgood, chairman of the Inverell Co-operative Butter Company, has prepared a return showing the profit he has made from dairying during the last six…

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Meetings of Farmers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 5

MOLONG.—The settlers on the Larris Lake closet settlement subdivision farms held a meeting at Mr. Ireland's residence at The Ford farm, with the object of forming a…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Work for the New Year

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 5

Looking back over the past year we can congratulate ourselves upon good conditions generally, and abundant signs of progress. It is impossible to ignore, nevertheless,…

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Death in the Air. More Victims to Science. Moissant and Hoxsey Killed. Success of Cody and Farman. London

The Sun · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 1

The closing days of 1910 were marked by a scramble among aviators for the $12,000 prize money that lapsed with the conclusion of the old year…

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Return of the Flagship. H.m.s. Powerful in Farm Cove. Admiral's Farewell Visit to New Zealand

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 7

H.M.S. Powerful, with Vice-Admiral Sir Richard Poore and suite, returned to Sydney on Saturday evening from New Zealand, and mooted in Farm Cove…

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The Farmer and the College

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 2 January 1911 · page 5

In the course of his annual report, Mr. W. J. Colebatch, acting-principal of the Roseworthy Agricultural College (S.A.), remarks that "it is not generally recognised in South Australia that…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. in the Wheat Belt. a Run of Good Crops. Xvi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 5

From the Murrumbidgee to the Murray the good average being obtained in other parts of the Riverina is more than upheld. The country through from Wagga to Albury…

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Some Large Butter Shipments

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 4

New Zealand has, during the past few months, forwarded some large consignments of butter to oversea markets, and the S.S. and A. liner Tainui,…

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London Wool Market

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 8

LONDON, December 2.--The progress of the colonial wool sales was again interrupted by fog this week. On Monday it was announced that the selling brokers bad devised arrangements…

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Breadstuffs. World's Wheat Chops

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 9

"Beerbohm" of December 2 gives a revised estimate of the world's wheat crop. This authority says that the latest estimate of the Russian spring wheat crop was a surprise, being considerably larger than…

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Monetary and Commercial. Financial. Australian Land and Pastoral Comanies

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1911 · page 9

The "Economist" reprints the speech of Dr. David Murray, chairman of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company, which has already been summarised in our columns,…

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