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Farming & the land, 1911

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Sheep Killing at Tantanoola. a Remarkable Statement. by Witness in Police Court

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 7

ADELAIDE. Wednesday.—At the Millicent police Court this morning, Robert Charles Ed- mondson was charged Willi having, between September 3 and December 31, killed with…

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Australian Wheat. Scottish Commissioners Criticism. Better Grading and Cleaning Desirable

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 3

It is of course, quite the correct thing now for distinguished visitors to Australia to give us as a young people, a bit of friendly advice, either just as they are saying…

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Losses on the Railways. Damaged Wheat. Uncovered Trucks in Wet Weather

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 10

The attitude of the Railway Department to wards the damage done by the recent heavy rains to wheat in uncovered trucks has brought about a feeling of exasperation amongst…

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News of the Night. Events reported after "She Sun" went to press yesterday. Wholesale Sheep-stealing

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 8

Some remarkable evidence was given at the Millicent (S.A.) Police Court yesterday, when Robert Charles Edmondson was charged with killing 76 sheep, the property of…

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Lime in the Dairy

Watchman · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 3

One of the most useful pieces of furniture in the dairy is the limewater cask, of which too much use cannot be made. As a disinfectant it is one of the best; it is…

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Farm Labourer's Injury. Wagga

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 10

At Cookardinia, a youth named Patterson was driving a stripper, when something went wrong. He sought to relieve the choking of the machinery by using his right foot. His…

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Demonstration Farm for Narromine. Request to the Mtnistep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 6

The Hen Minister for Agriculture (Mr. Tre[?]e) has promised to consider an application for a demonstration farm at Narromine. The request for its establishment was put to…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. Items

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 6

Farmers around Windsor have been congratulating themselves on the results of the season's operations. Unfortunately the heavy rains have done much to damage the crops…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 6

COOMA.—At a meeting of the provisional directors of the Monaro Co-operative Freezing Company, Ltd., Mr. Q. C. Litchfield was elected chairman. Estimates of working costs and…

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A Farmer's Suicide. Nowra

The Sun · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 7

A sad case of suicide tool place at Kangaroo Valley yesterday, when a man named Keys, who had been following the occupation of farming with his people, committed suicide…

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General Notes. Growther Settlement Farms

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 4

Particulars appear in yesterday's "Government Gazette" of the Growther settlement purchase farms, in the Young district, which will be available for application under the…

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Demonstration Farms. Application From Narromine

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 19 January 1911 · page 4

The Hon. Minister for Agriculture, Mr. Trene, was yesterday interviewed by Mr. Hogan (Mayor of Narromine) and Mr. O'Neill, a farmer in the district, when the necessity for the…

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Sheep and Wool in South Africa

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 6

The "Manchester Guardian" writes as follows regarding sheep and wool in South Africa:— Perhaps our most hopeful source of…

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Sheep and Wool Sydney Sales Resumed Values Lower All Round The Wet Sheep Question

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 8

The first sales of wool in Sydney for the second half of the present season, took place this week. The event had been awaited anxiously by…

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Hawkesworth's Sheep and Wool. a New Edition of a Great Book

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 8

Wm. Brooks and Co., Ltd., have just brought out another edition of Hawkesworth's "Australasian Sheep and Wool." As it is the third, and, we understand,…

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Wholesale Sheep-stealing

The Sun · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 3

Further evidence was heard yesterday at the Millicent (S.A.) Police Court in the case in which Robert Charles Edmondson is charged with stealing 76 sheep at Tantanoola…

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Sheep in Devon

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 18

To give some idea of the extent of the wastes and long-abandoned moors in Devon given over to the pasturage of sheep, savs an hhiglish writer, "imagine the whole…

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Handling Our Wheat

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 5

The chairman of the Scottish Commission has to be added to the list of our visitors who are surprised at the obsolete methods we adhere to in handling our wheat. His opinion…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 16

The following cables have been received in Sydney by the undermentionel agents, under date January 17th. in reference to the London Wool Sales:—…

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Wool Sales. Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 20 January 1911 · page 9

Wool Sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled [?] bales, and the sales, including private transactions, amounted to 10,238 bales, as under:…

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