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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

11,124 stories in Sydney's papers · page 10 of 250

Yanco Farms. Result of Inquiry. a Reply to Charges

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 6

The Minister for Works (Mr. Griffith) who was also chairman of the Irrigation Trust, forwarded to Mr. L. A. B. Wade the notes taken of complaints made at the recent…

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Cold in California. Fruit Crops Damaged. San Francisco

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 1

Intense cold is being experienced throughout California, and as a consequence the fruit crops have suffered much damage…

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Impending Strike. Port Pirie Wharf Laborers. Farmers and Loading. Adelaide

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 7

The grain ships at Port Plrie are still idle, and the situation is becoming most complicated. The latest turn in events suggests the possibility of a general strike along the…

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Dairymen Warned

The Sun · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 10

At the meeting of the Leichhardt Council lost night it was announced that out of 16 samples of milk taken by the Board of Health's Inspectors from dairymen in the…

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The Season and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 5

BOWRAVILLE, Monday.--The rainfall for December was 589 points. A good season is assured. Crops and grass are growing luxuriantly…

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Adulteration of Bluestone Warning to Farmers and Fruitgrowers

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 5

The attention of the Minister for Agriculture has been drawn to the inferiority and adulteration of sulphate of copper (bluestone) supplied to the farming public. It is stated that a large…

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Scientific Farming. British Government Active

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 7 January 1913 · page 7

LONDON, Sunday Afternoon.--Lord Lucas, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the Board of Education, speaking at Darlington, said that, the Government was establishing, by means…

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Pastoral Topics

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 37

THE final figures in connection with Homebush supplies for the past year show that the number of sheep and lambs reached a total of 3,220,091, a decline…

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The Markets. Dairy Cattle

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 10

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On the Land. Farm and Station. the Wheat Crop. in the Riverina Districts. Xxiii

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 7

The satisfactory conditions about Culcairn were reflected more or loss throughout the country down to Corowa and between the Culcairn-Corowa railway line and the Murray…

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London Butter Report

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 38

THE recent report of thy High Commissioner in London on the butter question has caused a considerable amount of stir, particularly in the co-operative…

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Moisture in Butter

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 9

The strictness of the law in the United Kingdom in regard to the moisture contents of butter is referred to in a letter we have received from Messrs. Mills and Sparrow, Tooley-street,…

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Butter Trade with Germany

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 7

A business firm in New Zealand is making efforts to create a trade in butter between the Dominion and Germany. The German purveyors prefer to get their butter in kells,…

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Australian Butter in London

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 12

A cable states that the report of Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for the Commonwealth, on the Australian butter export trade, has aroused dissent in Tooley-street, London…

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Butter Grading. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 7

The Minister for Customs, Mr. Tudor, waa asked today whether, as a result of the compulsory marking of butter being abolished, the grade marking had been discontinued. He…

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How to Grow Wheat. Mr. Peacock's Advice to Farmers

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 7

MUDGEE.—Mr. R. W. Peacock, manager of the Bathurst Experimental Farm, has, by request, forwarded to Mr. Edward Loneragan, of the firm of Loneragan, Ltd., some advice…

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London Wool Sales

The Sun · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 4

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., have received a cable message from their London House, dated Monday, notifying that the list of arrivals for the first series of home wool sales…

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The Wool Trade

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 40
Also in Australian Town and Country Journal

THE tone of the wool market at the closing sales of the old year was, as we reported at the time, scarcely so satisfactory as it had been earlier on; but in…

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Sydney Wool Sales

Evening News · Wednesday 8 January 1913 · page 9

At the Sydney wool sales this afternoon two heavy cata[?]gues were officers. [?]tales—Wlachcombe, Carson, Limited 5218 bales and the New Zealand Loan and Mercantle…

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