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Farming & the land, 1911

10,786 stories in Sydney's papers · page 13 of 250

Pastoral Finance Association, Limited

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 7

Fat Calves.—A very heavy supply of about 1,050 head were forward, bring made up of all descriptions, a large proportion being only of medium quality. The supply was altogether too heavy for…

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Pastoral Finance Association, Ltd

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 10

Auction sales were resumed this week in both the Melbourne and Brisbane markets. The reports from these centres have been disappointing, prices showing a…

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Australian Butter Export

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 8

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The annual report of Messrs. Weddell and Co., London, butter experts, is quoted with considerable satisfaction by the Minister for Customs, as evidence in…

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Sheep and Wool The Sydney Market Re-opening of Sales in Melbourne Export Mutton Trade Forbes District Sheep Report

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 14

There has been another very quiet week in the Sydney wool trade. New business has been out of the question, owing to the arrangements made…

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Distribution of Cattle Breeds

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 15

While the breeders of cattle in other countries select their own particular fancy as regards race, and thus scatter representative herds over very wide areas, in the…

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Sheep-breeding in America

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 6

Sheep-breeding has made great strides in America during the last twenty years. Chicago, the largest of the central markets, received in 1887…

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Mutton Sheep in America

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 12

Sheep-breeding has made great strides in America during the last twenty years. Chicago, the largest of the central markets, received in 1887 1,360,862 sheep; in…

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Riverina Wheat Lands

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 13

Public attention has been recently directed to the production of the Southern Riverina country of New South Wales, and to the influx of Victorian farmers, keenly alive to the immense…

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More Wheat Charters

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 8

Strathleven, s, which arrived at Sydney ealy on Wednesday from Newcastle has been fixed to load wheat for the Channel on behalf of Messrs. John Darling and Son…

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Weight of Wheat

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 8

ADELAIDE, Wednesday.--The Corn Trade Sectional Committee of the Adelaide Chamber of Commerce to-day fixed the standard weight of wheat for South Australia this season at…

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Success in Wheat-breeding. the State's Wheat Yield

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 9

As results have shown that Federation when, on the average yields from 3 to 4…

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Antwerp Wool Sales

Evening News · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 8

ANTWERP, Thursday.— The wool sales opened yesterday. There was a small attendance, and competition was limited to the new shearing. Mertses fell 7[?] per cent., fine crossbreds…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 13

Goldsbrough, Mort and Company, Ltd.. have received from their London house, under yesterday s date, the following cable:—…

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High Prices for Fat Cattle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 9

Pitt, Son, and Badgery report having sold at Flemington yesterday on account of Mr. A. A. Dangar, 10 extra prime bullocks from Baroona, selling to £11/17/, and averaging £11/15/2, being the best average for…

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Australian Forage Plants. Importance to Pastoral Industry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 5

Mr. Fred. Turner, F.L.S., contributed an important thesis to the biological section's work, entitled "Australian grasses, salt-bushes, pasture herbs, shrubs, and trees, and their…

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The Butter Market. Prescott, Ltd., Report:—

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 7

There has been no alteration in prices this week. Local trade has been difficult to handle on account of the quality of the bulk of arrivals…

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Homebush Stock Market. Yesterday's Sales. Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 9

Upwards of on 158 sheep (including limbs) were drawn for sale from 208 consignors, and 58,305 head were penned. Some of the stock trains were late, and sheep arrived after the sales had started. The…

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To Load Wheat at Fremantle

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 4

The four-mastfed barque Jordanhill, 2176 tons register, which arrived at Fremantle on the 20th November from Huelva, with a big cargo of ore,…

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Brisbane Wool Sales. Brisbane

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 9

The fifth of 1910-1911 senes of wool sales was continued on Wednesday. The selection was only an average one. A good many lots showed a fair amount of seed as compared with December sales. Greasy…

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Geelong Wool Sales. Geelong

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 January 1911 · page 9

The wool sales were resumed to-day, the offerings totalling 10,000 bales. The display of wools, espacially in comebacks and crossbreds, was a good one. In view of the lately reported fall in prices, it occasioned no…

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