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Sydney · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1914

12,048 stories in Sydney's papers · page 32 of 250

The Dairy the Milk Standard. Commission of Enquiry. Evidence Being Taken

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 7

There is a row on the South Coast over the milk standard. Milk suppliers are making a fus[?] over what some of them consider is an attempt to raise…

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Produce. Dairy. Firmness of Cheese Market

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 11

Though business was exceedingly brisk in Sussex-street yesterday morning, there was practically no alteration in current quotations…

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Sale of a Farm

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 5

MUDGEE.—A successful sale was held on Wednesday of Burrundurra farm, the property of Mr. Fred Cox, who is leaving the district, Mr. E. Woolley paid £480 for the goodwill of the farm of 219 acres, and had six…

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Cereal Breeding. Departmental Conference. Work of Government Farms

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 5

The Department of Agriculture is giving the matter of wheat-breeding special attention, and an interesting conference in furtherance of its aims in this direction is now sitting…

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Dairying

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 5

The report for pay ended December 25, 1913, of the North Coast Co-operative Company, Ltd., Byron Bay, shows butter manufactured for the pay 494 tons. Paid for A1…

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Missing Balmain Boy. Wanted to Be a Farmer

The Sun · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 1

On Saturday afternoon last, Mrs. Davis, mother of Thomas Baden Davis, aged 13 years, of 225 Darling-street, Balmain, heard a thud. She did not take any notice of it at…

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Farm Products. Effects of Rural Strike. Values Rise Rapidly

The Sun · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

Choice wheaten chaff has all this week been steadily rising in value. Shortened arrivals and unfavorable manifests have had a wonderful effect upon buying. This morning…

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Row in a Dairy

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 4

At the Burwood Court, before Mr. E. L. Maitland, S.M., Cyril Carpenter (20) was charged with having maliciously inflicted grievous bodily harm on John William Hartley, at Canterbury, on December 15 last…

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Attracting Farmers to Australia

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 10

As the result of a conference a few days ago with Mr. Percy Hunter, director of the amalgamated immigration services of Victoria and New booth Wales, the Minister for…

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Turf Club Helps Farmers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 16 January 1914 · page 14

PERTH, Thursday. -- The West Australia Turf Club has donated £200 to the relief fund for farmers whose crops weer destroyed by a hailstorm last month…

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Butter and Cheese

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 16

There is a steady trade in butter. The choicest Australian salted is quoted at 112s to 114s, and the unsalted at 114s, with exceptionally good at 116s, and secondary lines 104s to…

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Wheat Prospects

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 16

"The oversea markets closed quiet last week, reports Messrs. Lindley, Walker, and Co., "but with an undercurrent of strength, and since then firmness has developed, especially in the Liverpool option market…

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Wool Sales

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 23

The offerings and sales of the Co-operative Wool and Produce Company at the local wool sales, given in our issue of Thursday, were inadvertently attributed to the Country Producers Company, and vice versa…

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Wool Manifested

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 16

There were 343 bales of wool manifested to arrive at Darling Harbor find sub-stations yesterday…

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Butter Steady in London

The Sun · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 7

Dalgety and Company are in receipt of a cable from their London office' reporting the market steady at present prices, with the following quotations:--Danish, 127s per…

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Butter Substitute. Melbourne

Evening News · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 11

The Minister for Trade and Customs stated to-day that he had directed that the products known as "Criscol," "Scon," "Flex," and "Kabur," are to be charged the same duty as is…

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On the Land. Jersey Cattle

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 21

LISMORE,—At a meeting of the Lismore branch of the Jersey Herd Society reference was made to the proposal of the Department of Agriculture to remove Jersey cattle from…

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Wheat, Flour, and Oats

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 16

Wheat cargoes are firm, and are quoted 1½d to 3d per quarter higher. The cargoes by the steamer Loderer (now loading at Melbourne) and the barque Svithoid…

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Butter in Fair Demand. London, Saturday Morning

The Sun · Saturday 17 January 1914 · page 8

There was a fair demand for Australian butter yesterday. Finest Victorian grades had business at 112s to 115s, and New South Wales of similar…

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