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Farming & the land, 1914

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London Butter Market

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 13
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The total imports of butter into the United Kingdom for the week ended January 17 were 88,000cwt., as compared with 65,000cwt. for the same period last year. Those figures were…

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Romney Marsh Sheep

The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 15

A valuable consignment of Romney Marsh sheep, comprising three rams and eight ewes, were landed by Dalgety and Co., Ltd., an Tuesday from the Star of Australia and…

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Strange Trouble Among Cattle

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 9

A Singleton report states that two residents of Sedgefield a few days ago, left with the shire clerk some specimens [?] a plant which they thought…

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Important Sheep Fly Investigations

The Land · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture has received a report from the Government Entomologist, to the effect that the parasitic chalcid wasps…

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Important Sheep Fly Investigations

The Land · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 4

The Minister for Agriculture has received a report from the Government Entomologist, to the effect that the parasitic chalcid wasps…

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Shearers and Wet Sheep

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 5

In a recent case in New Zealand the Inspector of Awards claimed £60 in respect of six breaches of the award from the owners of a station. The award leaves it to the individual shearer to say whether he…

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The Wheat Crop. Estimate of Yield and Standard

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 5

HARDEN.—Harvesting is now completed, and, taken on the whole, has been very disappointing, in the majority of cases paying neither the landowner nor the farmer where…

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Breadstuffs. Wheat Steady

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 11

Wheat was steady yesterday at late rates. Farmers were selling moderate quantities at 3/1¼ to 3/1½ at country stations, according to distance from port. Few parcels were on…

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London Wool Sales

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 19

The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., Sydney, have received a cable from their London office advising that as compared with rates ruling at…

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Wool Sales. Sydney

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 11

Wool sales were held yesterday at the Sydney Wool Exchange, Bridge-street, when the quantity catalogued totalled 1,846 bales, and the sales, including private transactions,…

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Melbourne Wool Sales

The Land · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 10

Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Melbourne, report:—The second series of wool sales opened in Victoria on 19th inst., when they offered a large and…

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High Class Wool

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 12

The following letter will interest wool growers, and we will be glad to send the samples referred to, to any of our readers:…

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An Overcharge on Sheep Vans

The Farmer and Settler · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 4

Wingen wants to obtain a refund of an overcharge on three sheep vans used by him for the conveyance of store sheep…

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Thursday's Sales Sheep and Lambs

The Land · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 11

The number of grown sheep and lambs listed, 40,532, from 158 owners, was rubber more than the trade required, and shippers were only buying…

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Thursday's Sales Sheep and Lambs

The Land · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 11

The number of grown sheep and lambs listed, 40,532, from 158 owners, was rather more than the trade required, and shippers were only buying…

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Preventing Smut in Wheat

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 8

Dr. Hilgendorf, who is in charge of the experimental work at Canterbury Agricultural College, N.Z., is reported to have found a pickle which not only…

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"Husk" or "Hoose" in Young Cattle

The Land · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 5

"Hoose" is one of the popular names for what is technically known as parasitic or verminous bronchitis, and although it is not very…

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Husk" or "Hoose'" in Young Cattle

The Land · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 5

"Hoose" is one of the popular names for what is technically known as parasitic or verminous, bronchitis, and although it is not very…

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Wheat. Quality SPEAKS—641b. STANDARD

The Land · Friday 23 January 1914 · page 10

Naturally the leading feature of the local wheat market during the week was the annual gathering of the Grain Trades section of the Sydney Chamber…

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