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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1913

11,124 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 250

Wheat Freights

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4

The big four-masted barque Lawhill, 2749 tons nett register, now discharging at Melbourne, is reported fixed to load wheat for the U.K. or…

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Wool Arrivals

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4

A return of the wool arrivals at Sydney for the first six months of the season, shows a deficiency of 107,370 bales when a comparison is made with…

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Treatment of Australian Butter

Globe · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 3

A conference is to be held regarding the unfair treatment of Australians butter in England. Mr. Thomas, Minister for External Affairs, intends to communicate with Australian factories on…

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World's Wheat Conditions

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 21

Mr. George Broomhall, F.S.S., the Liverpool grain trade authority, in estimating the future of the International wheat market, predicted that about the middle of December…

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London Wheat Quotations

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 21

Mr. Tom Brown, M.P., has received an official letter, setting out that the arrangements made by the Commonwealth Government to furnish daily quotations of Australian wheat…

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The Wheat Crop. in the Riverina Districts. Xxi

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 9

The Wagga district is our largest wheat centre. While the immediate Wagga district Was officially estimated to have had about 80,000 acres under wheat, taking in Junee,…

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Wheat Sampler Injured

Evening News · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 5

A young wheat [?] Albert Gore, who fives in Glenmor[?] Paddington was standing alongside a [?] Darling island wheat shed, where he is employed, early this…

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London Wool Sales

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 16
Also in The Sun

A cable message received by Dalgety and Co.,Ltd., from their head office, dated Thursday, states that it is expected that the net quantity of wool available for the London sales, fixed…

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Breadstuffs. Little Wheat Offering

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 21

The stagnation in the wheat market continued yesterday. Little was obtained from the farmers, and the temptation to operators to do some speculative selling forward was…

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Wool Steamers for Hobart

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 4

Messrs. C. Piesse and Company have arranged for the P. and O. S.N. Company's Socotra to load a big consignment of wool at Hobart for Dunkirk,…

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Cattle on the Line. Escaped From Flemington

The Sun · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 6

Whilst some cattle were being unloaded at Flemington yesterday, a number of them escaped. The railway officials were vigilant and prevented them getting on to the…

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Tooley-street Dissent. Sir George Reid's Butter Report

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 13

LONDON, Thursday Evening. -- The cabled summary of Sir George Reid's report with regard to Australian butter exported to England has aroused dissent in Tooley-street…

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The Wool Trade. an Excellent Outlook

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 9

On Monday next auction sales of wool will be resumed in the Sydney market, after a brief holiday recess. Large catalogues were submitted during the week prior to the…

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The Butter Trade. Sir George Reid's Report. Dissent in Tooley-street. London, Jan. 2

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 19

A summary of thE report of Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for Australia, on the butter trade, which has been cabled, has aroused dissent in Tooley-street…

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Agricultural & Pastoral Notes I sued under the direction of the Minister for Agriculture, the Hon J L. T[?]fle.) Agricultural. Soil Fertility. The Value of Animals

Nepean Times · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 8

The [?] of an American agricultural paper was recently asked if he coulb name the figure at which land became too valuable to be used for…

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On the Land. Farm and Station. the Mopoke

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 9

In natural history if an error gets a start it may be overtaken and corrected again and again, but it will come up still in unexpected places with all the assurance of an…

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The Season and Crops

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1913 · page 10

BALRANALD, Friday. -- The season has been satisfactory. The past year's rainfall amounts to over 12 inches, which fell on 55 days, mostly since June. Prospects are bright for this year…

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Wheat and Wool

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 5

During the week ending January 4, 5312 bales of wool were despatched to Sydney by rail as compared with 7355 bales during the corresponding period of last year. In the season 619,400…

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Sheep Find a Gold Mine

Sunday Times · Sunday 5 January 1913 · page 21

Captain William Guest, one time officer of the British army, discovered a gold quartz mine at Tacoma (Washington, U.S.A.) because he followed mountain sheep whose shadow was…

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